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Devonnte Moody: Breaking Cycles, Chasing Dreams & Embracing Growth
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What does it take to break free from generational cycles, overcome trauma, and build a life of purpose? In this powerful episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, Devonnte Moody shares his incredible journey from a small-town upbringing filled with challenges to becoming a thriving entrepreneur, alignment coach, and podcast host.
Devonnte opens up about childhood struggles, battling asthma, overcoming abandonment issues, and learning tough life lessons through heartbreak and hardship. He talks about his entrepreneurial spark, from hustling candy in high school to diving into multi-level marketing and eventually launching his own podcast, Growth Unscripted.
This episode is packed with motivation, mindset shifts, and real talk about resilience, healing, and personal growth. If you're on a journey of self-improvement, chasing your dreams, or looking for inspiration to rewrite your own story, this conversation is for you! #motivationalpodcasts #entrepreneurmindset #SelfImprovement #breakingcycles #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:38 Meet Devonnte Moody: The Man Behind the Mic 🔥🎤
02:21 Humble Beginnings: Growing Up in Emporia🏡
03:56 Family Ties & Challenges: The Role of Parents and Grandparents 👨👩👧👦💔
10:28 A Battle for Breath: Overcoming Asthma and Hospital Stays 🏥🌬️
14:23 Finding His Voice: School, Social Life & Seeking Connection 🎒🤝
24:19 First Love, First Heartbreak: A Teenage Turning Point 💔🚂
28:10 Finding Light in the Darkness: The Boys & Girls Club 🏀🌟
30:09 The Candy Hustle: High School Entrepreneurship 🍫💰
31:32 From Food Lion to Multi-Level Marketing: The Entrepreneurial Spark 🛒🚀
32:44 WorldVentures: A Glimpse into the Bigger World ✈️🌎
35:59 The Birth of Growth Unscripted: A Podcast is Born 🎧🔥
39:09 The Realities of Podcasting: Challenges & Lessons Learned 🎙️💡
42:00 Personal Struggles & Breakthroughs: A Raw Conversation 🗣️💔➡️💪
56:37 Building Community & Future Plans for Growth Unscripted 🌍🤝
01:00:44 Final Thoughts: A Story of Resilience & Growth 🌱💪✨
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Introduction to 'Us Listen Perspectives'
00:00:10
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00:00:28
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Introducing Devontae Moody
00:00:36
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enemies. On today's episode, I'm going be talking to Devontae Moody.
00:00:41
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He's the host of Unscripted Growth Podcast. He's also an entrepreneur and an alignment coach. We're going talking about his life and his work. But that's enough of the intro.
00:00:52
Speaker
Let's get to the show.
00:01:01
Speaker
Like I said at the top, I'm here with Devante Moody. He's a 27-year-old entrepreneur, podcaster, alignment coach dedicated to helping people transform their mindset, break generational cycles, and step into their true potential.
00:01:16
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He's also the host of Growth Unscripted Podcast. We'll be talking about his podcast and his life. But Devante, thank you for coming on the show today. It's going to be a real treat having you on, talking about your life and what you're doing.
00:01:30
Speaker
Hey, bro, listen, i just want thank you so much for having on here today. Thank you so much for that. Yeah, no, you know who look, I always want to introduce people to new podcasters.
00:01:42
Speaker
And I know that you have your growth unscripted and you've done about 10 episodes. ah so far. And if I can give you a little spotlight to grow your audience, I'm all for it. Cause I think you have an interest to store. And I think my audience will enjoy listening to you talk about your story.
00:02:00
Speaker
So yeah, man, thank you for coming on. I appreciate it, bro. Appreciate it. I can't wait. All right. I always start every interview the same. Let's go to the beginning. Can you tell me a little bit about your upbringing, your family?
00:02:14
Speaker
Tell me some stories of just the highs and lows of you growing up in your early life.
Devontae's Childhood and Family Background
00:02:20
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Oh, man. Shoosh. Man, i don't know where to start. That's a lot right there.
00:02:24
Speaker
So once again, like you said, my name is Devontae. um I'm 27 years old. I was actually born and raised in Emporia, Virginia. For those who don't know, very small town. You could easily go right past it within a matter of seconds.
00:02:37
Speaker
I actually graduated from Greensville County High School. to play football, play basketball, play soccer. I did play baseball, even though funny enough, when I did play baseball, I never hit the ball until like my last game.
00:02:51
Speaker
yeah i not And then when I did, I got out. that's that that You didn't play baseball. So basically, you didn't play baseball. Right, right, right. Not at all.
00:03:02
Speaker
But, you know, it's the thought that counts. I get the participant ah participation trophy. So that's what matters. All right. So, yeah. So pretty much... ah Grew up, um my dad raised me for a little while, and then over time, my grandma got custody ah me and my sister, and I started living with her and stuff with her uncle at the time, and pretty much grew up in the country.
00:03:23
Speaker
So pretty much country boy. ah My best, it was so like, we were so far in the country. My best friend was a raccoon. Right. And things was like one day i got home from school and was like, where am I? Where'd the raccoon at?
00:03:37
Speaker
And then next thing you know, find out my grandma cooked the raccoon ate it. Okay. So wait a minute. sit since that that Hold up. Hold up. Okay. yeah get you That is country as hell. So I have a couple of questions and I'm definitely going to get back to this raccoon situation.
00:03:52
Speaker
but So you brought up your dad and, uh, that your dad raised you for a little while and your grandmother got custody. Where's your mother? So my mom was there. So like my mom and dad were together for a little while, but then pretty much it didn't work out.
00:04:07
Speaker
So then my mom veered off and then my mom, funny enough, she actually ended moving to Richmond, Virginia. Probably like by the time I was like, maybe don't quote me on I like around eight, eight or nine.
00:04:21
Speaker
So like she did come down to visit me and my sister stuff from time to time and stuff. But there was, course, some holes there to where, of course, you know, i wish my mom was there for certain things. So, you know, when so one thing about me that I've learned is that when i was growing up, even when I want had conversations with adults, they always told me I'm wise beyond my years just because of how I'm able to understand situations at a young age.
00:04:43
Speaker
OK, so I was able to pick up on how there were times when my mom come visit, right, visit me and my grandma's house and stuff. But then, you know, she says she'll stay a week, but then all of sudden, like overnight, she'll go and leave, go back to Richmond and stuff like that.
00:04:58
Speaker
So, you know, dealing with that constantly, it caused, it caused, you know, like that thing of dang, like my mom, that does my mom love me? Does she even care about us?
00:05:08
Speaker
Stuff like that, right? And I know that she will always, looking back on it, she always used to come buy us like the latest toys, give me like all the video games, even though I used beat a whole video game back in the day with them 20 minutes to an hour.
00:05:20
Speaker
Right. So if youer if I ever had my stack GameCube collection of games, it was like on a good like hundred of games and I beat them all within an hour or two. oh So you realize that she used GIFs and stuff to kind of like cover the sense of, hey, I'm not here all the time type of deal, right?
00:05:38
Speaker
In which, yeah, it may have helped for a little bit, but you know, over time, especially as well, me being able to see, you know, we go to the drop-offs at elementary school, I'm getting off, you know, me my sister get dropped off. I see other parents hugging their parents and stuff like that with the kids.
00:05:52
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And you know, I think like, I'm like, where's my mom and dad in this, you know? So I realized that over time I started creating that trauma of the sense of abandonment and the sense of like the lack of love and stuff like that, which kind of played a part into some things where we might get into a little bit later, to like my relationships and stuff like that. and But yeah, there's been a lot of trials and tribulations growing up.
00:06:16
Speaker
I ain't gonna sit here and say, ain't gonna sit here and say, oh, you know we was hungry and starving, nothing like that. But it was definitely the sense of, at least I would say from the childhood of, you know hey, mom and dad wasn't really around consistently like that all the time.
00:06:30
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And then even with my dad, um funny enough, when I used to play football and stuff, he literally lived like five minutes away, right? Mm-hmm. And all he had to really do was like walk to the high school. That's all he had to really do.
00:06:42
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And so he never really been to any of my football games to like maybe graduation and maybe one other game if that. So there was, so there was always these different things that kind of like I held on to for a long time growing up and stuff with my dad and my parents and everything.
00:07:00
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How did your, what was the whole process of your grandmother gaining custody? So the process, so pretty much the whole thing behind that was that there was, so from what I remember, they were saying that he, my dad used to send us to school hungry and he did take a shower and like tattered clothes and stuff like that.
00:07:21
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I don't remember it like that at all. And about how old were you? When we got, but she had custody of us. I think it was probably like around, actually think that was probably like around like maybe,
00:07:35
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like around eight or not. So much was seven and nine. Okay. Yeah. Because funny enough was that my dad, we used work at Walmart at the time. He used to spend time with me my sister all the time. We played around, all of that.
00:07:48
Speaker
But then something definitely changed ah when after he lost his job at Walmart to where it started becoming that point of like he wasn't spending as much time with us as he used to. So I never really knew what was really going on as inside his mental, in a sense, from that point on. I know used to be in Army and everything.
00:08:05
Speaker
But it would just I think, honestly, he's a kind of guy to where like he kind of goes with the flow of things in life. So not saying like he gives up in a sense, but in a sense, he kind of does to a degree to where he'll keep going.
00:08:18
Speaker
But it's never going to be like that overachieving. You know, kind like just, hey, just enough to get to, hey, I'm good here. going to stay here. Bare minimum. Yeah, bare minimum.
00:08:29
Speaker
Okay, so your grandmother gets custody somewhere around you're seven or nine years old. This is your paternal or your maternal grandmother? It's my paternal grandmother.
00:08:40
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oh It's your mom's mom. Yeah. So your maternal grandmother. So ah what is that like being raised by your grandmother, your mom dropping in sometimes, your dad's around, and here's her daughter that will pop up.
00:08:59
Speaker
And every now and then be around and then take off again. So I know you're young at this time, but do you see any type of strain on your grandmother?
00:09:11
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Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure. I'm sure my grandma would love. I know my grandma, of course, wanted to spend time with us and everything. so And she definitely did a great job in doing the best that she could for us. That's what I am very grateful for her for. And the thing and I know definitely for sure it's definitely been hard on her for some times, especially I'm sure that she's probably wanting to go out and do things too that she probably wanted to do, but she couldn't.
00:09:34
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So for her to even take on the job of taking me my sister and taking me and my sister in the stuff of custody and stuff like that. mean, I really appreciate her a lot for that and for her to even do for her to even able even go through all trial tribulations. Because also, too, I was in out of hospital a young age, too.
00:09:51
Speaker
Why? I had asthma. OK. This before they came up with the whole ad bear and all the other stuff they had going, other stuff and everything. But so I was like in the hospital, like almost every week, every single week.
00:10:04
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So it was at a point to where I thought I would never even be able to play sports and stuff. That's how bad it was. And so, Like me being in hospital all the time. And then also sometimes, for at least from what I can remember, my dad probably came and stopped by maybe couple of times.
00:10:21
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I did see my mom a few times. There was actually a time she actually did stay like a week. She did stay like a week with me in the hospital and stuff like that too and everything. So it was me but having asthma was definitely a rough thing.
00:10:34
Speaker
It was definitely a rough thing at the time. Because I want to go outside. I want to know exercise. I wanted to like just enjoy being outdoors. no And so for me to be in the hospital all the time between that and allergy season, it was definitely pretty hectic.
00:10:50
Speaker
Especially living in the country. Now, I definitely want to get into how the relationship with your mother and father affected you with other people. But let's talk about this pet raccoon. Okay.
00:11:02
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Because this is very country. How did you, what type of friendship did you have with this pet raccoon? It wasn't a friendship of coming in the house. I mean, obviously, right? Yeah, it was a friendship. You know, I see it every day.
00:11:14
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You know, it used to come from out of the woods, behind like near the shred shed and stuff that we had. And so, you know, I used to like pretty much feed it, you know, and once in a while and everything, something like that.
00:11:25
Speaker
And I petted it maybe a couple of times, but nothing too major. So when I, so pretty much, ah it did probably was my pet for like maybe a week and a half.
00:11:36
Speaker
You said it was your best friend, though. It was the best damn friend I had Okay. And how old were you at this time?
Challenges of Youth and Missed Opportunities
00:11:43
Speaker
Shit. I was probably like... ah I was around like... 10.
00:11:52
Speaker
Okay. it was debate Because you you can't go outside and play like regular kids because of your asthma. Yeah. So your best friend, your pet raccoon, who you named? At that time, I named him...
00:12:06
Speaker
I need him stripes stripes. Okay. And then you come home one day to come play with stripes and he's in the pot being cooked by your grandmother.
00:12:17
Speaker
The thing is, I didn't even know the fun. That's the funny part. So what happened was I, so usually stripes is always there pretty much every day. Right. at least there was some sign of him somewhere, right? Usually at a shed or he was near the pond area somewhere that are coming straight from out of the woods, regardless.
00:12:33
Speaker
So, um When I was so pretty much when I did see him there, you know i probably, didn't think too much of it. ah was like, okay, maybe he just was out in the woods or whatever today or whatever. Right?
00:12:44
Speaker
So I go inside and everything, smell something cooking and it smells good. I'm like, i'm like what are you making? And she said, raccoon. I'm like, huh? like She's like, yeah i I'm making raccoon. Is that stripes?
00:13:00
Speaker
She just looked, she just stared at me. She said, don't ask any questions. ass i just went and i went in my room i just started crying man rest in peace stripes so that what so you can't really go outside and play your best friend is a pet raccoon how was your relationships with other people as you're growing up are you a reserved kid are you are is participating in sports making you more active in on social aspects so yeah give me a little bit of background of socially how you were elementary middle and high school okay so i was honestly funny enough you would never believe it but i actually was an introvert i was a straight introvert for probably from elementary school all the way up until i got to uh
00:13:54
Speaker
around middle school, late middle school years. So I pretty much kept to myself at the times. And also too, I was also like, you know, trying to hang with the cool kids if I can and everything.
00:14:06
Speaker
And honestly, I just felt, I wanted to feel accepted. So there was also times where I would do things to kind of like, kind of get attention in a sense where maybe I would act up or something like that. Funny enough though, during elementary school, was in middle school. I had straight A's and B's all the way to that point.
00:14:22
Speaker
So yeah, Even to win the whole thing when they had the whole sagging pants thing. I even did that. But then I was like you know, this feels weird. I don't know why everybody likes this. It feels weird.
00:14:33
Speaker
I tried it for a day. i was like, don't get what's the whole hype about this. So when you say that you would try things to get attention, what were some of those things that you would try? So I would try to pretty much be like when kids would be in the like when we be in a classroom, right?
00:14:52
Speaker
And so when there was always somebody in there that kind of did jokes in a sense or talked jokingly. So like I started working on trying to talk jokingly a little bit here and there too as well. Like I'll do something like that.
00:15:05
Speaker
Or if a teacher tells me to pay attention, stuff like that, I'll be like, I don't need to listen to you, stuff like that. kind Yeah. So like I will pretty much try accept try to do something else out of the norm in a sense to that degree. Right.
00:15:21
Speaker
Even though i didn't like getting my butt whooped. I mean, nobody likes that. Yeah, definitely didn't like that at all. But then funny enough you know what's crazy? There was a play.
00:15:31
Speaker
I think it was the Christmas play, I believe it was. i dressed up wo i was dressed as one of the reindeer and... From I actually got on. So what happened was when it wasn't after our turn was over or whatever, when I got for some, don't know where I even got this, but I had a pair i had pair of scissors in my hand.
00:15:54
Speaker
I was running across stage with a pair scissors. Not at anybody, just running across stage with pair scissors. And i got yanked off the stage. And let's just say that could sit down for two days.
00:16:05
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, you can't be running. it I mean, that's rule number one. You don't run. I don't even know what caused me to do that. I be real that's i still don't remember to this day what caused me to even do that. So are you saying that by doing these things to try and fall in with the cool crowd that you weren't being authentically yourself, that you were trying to be somebody else in order to fit in?
00:16:26
Speaker
Pretty much. Yeah. That's pretty much for most part. I tried to, uh, feel like we try to get some type of acknowledgement or acceptance. From your social, from your peers. Do you think that's in a connection from not getting that from your parents?
00:16:42
Speaker
Oh yes. 100%. How was your relationship with your grandmother? I mean, obviously she beat your butt. Sounds like you deserve to get your butt beaten more than a few times. But what was your relationship like with your grandmother growing up? Was she a disciplinarian that you didn't really have any like personal relationship with? It was a parent provider or was there times where you felt comfortable enough to just talk on the real with your grandmother?
00:17:09
Speaker
um It was probably like a little mix of everything. um So while she was raising, nu she also had her her had her son, too, as well, which is also our uncle, my uncle and stuff. And also ah the ah other guy, too, as well, which we called our grandpa at the time.
00:17:27
Speaker
as well so he was like more of the disciplinary more so everything and so we were kind of scared of him and go we're kind of scared of him and then so but it was always like that mix of everything to where you know there's good times those bad times and yeah i get it you know there was times of where um we of course needed our butt or needed you know discipline because we did act up in a certain way so i get that right But there was also times, too, where sometimes that when we just do something minimal or something like that, we get yelled at for it.
00:18:00
Speaker
And it wasn't that that like we're acting up. It just maybe caused a mistake in some way or something like that. We get yelled at for it. So my grandma always been the one that pretty much I'll look forward into and everything.
00:18:12
Speaker
And she has... There was, of course, this one time where i got mad at her. Only because when I was doing good in school, I had got an acceptance letter to go overseas to study pretty much. And how old were you when this happened?
00:18:27
Speaker
I was But it was like a thing. Of course, you know, kids would been you know, all of course, look for and after and all that stuff. The only thing that she had to do was pay for the ticket.
00:18:40
Speaker
They were like a flight ticket, I believe. And there was something else. Flight ticket, something else. But she said that she but she said that I couldn't do it because of by this time i was getting medicine to where I go to doctor like every other week to go get like these asthma shots pretty much far.
00:18:59
Speaker
So if I were to do that, i wouldn't be able to get the shots for like maybe a month and a half up and overseas. So I would matter about that because I felt like that was opportunity because why i never, of course, been overseas. And on top of the two, been a great experience for me learn something to where maybe even today I might be somewhere else. Who knows?
00:19:19
Speaker
But it was just that it was just the opportunity of a lifetime for me. And since I didn't get that, I didn't know. I didn't know that I was going to leave. I didn't know that.
00:19:30
Speaker
At least I wasn't aware at that time I was a kid. But, you know, at that time, I was just mad at her more so about that.
00:19:44
Speaker
Okay, so we have these situation where you're getting A's and B's in elementary and middle school, kind of acting up a little bit to get attention from your peers in those greats to be a part of the cool kids.
00:20:02
Speaker
Tell me about that transition from middle school to high school because you said you're getting good grades. And then what happened in high school? Things got a little harder. This is at a time now to where I kind of start shifting the focus of I was in school, still doing stuff in school in terms of oh i also getting my grades and stuff, but it's just a little bit, no, a little bit harder.
00:20:22
Speaker
And also as well, I started a course at this time looking at uh girlfriend was pretty much or at least looking for like a pannier just something like that right and so it was a mix of that and also that's when we had the uh egra that's when i started doing football and stuff so egra yeah so that was thinking emporia was like uh emporia
00:20:54
Speaker
It was an Emporia or Emporium something regional ah something. I forgot the exact term of it, but in Emporia, they call it the EGRA.
00:21:05
Speaker
And what is that? A rec league. It's kind of like a rec league. Okay, a rec league. Okay. All right. Sports and stuff like that. so yeah So I was doing one for football and stuff, and that was my first time into football at a time before before high school.
00:21:16
Speaker
And I was playing so pretty much... We was ah doing the tryouts and stuff. I tried out and I got on there. and funny enough. ah We were doing the whole lineup, you know, tackling each other.
00:21:33
Speaker
And this is why knew how to tackle. So the first time I get on there, I get tackled. It hit my shin and my whole thing gets swollen and bruised to where I couldn't play like the first three games, three or four games. to say Yeah, it was fun.
00:21:53
Speaker
Well, doing exercises and everything, I want to actually play the game. And then have to wait another extra, like almost like three weeks but for me to play. Right. So that's when the cat's I get into there.
00:22:06
Speaker
Okay. So in high school, now things are changing. You said, now I'm looking for a girlfriend. yeah School work gets a little bit harder. Tell me about the process of just high school. You're playing sports.
00:22:21
Speaker
What was your social life like as you're starting to develop these or trying to find a girlfriend? Did you get one? How was that relationship with her? And did the relationship with your parents have anything to do with how you moved as far as relationships with women were concerned at that young age?
00:22:41
Speaker
So at that age before I'm more self-aware now, so my first girlfriend, my first girlfriend wasn't even at my own school, was actually at another school.
00:22:54
Speaker
this when, of course, at the time, you know, you have cell phones now. They have the have Facebook and stuff. So, you know, i was going Facebook, all that stuff. so ah had a girl So I had a girlfriend and everything. And we was talking and everything like that, you know, as usual.
00:23:10
Speaker
And then what ended up happening was on the 4th of July, ah course, was on a holiday. The 4th of July, she tells me that she doesn't want to be with me anymore.
00:23:21
Speaker
And this is my first girlfriend. So on 4th of July, i think I was already being stressed out too anyway, just because of on the back of my mind of just all the other things that kind of is going on in my life between, you know, with me growing up as a kid, as, you know, my parents, like my parents, stuff like that, like the lack, the lackluster of love and stuff like that and everything.
00:23:46
Speaker
And I forgot I was stressing about that time. i was stressing about something. but Probably was school, but i think it was more so pertaining to sports. Because I think at this time, I was ah ah was dealing with ah some type of mental issue.
00:24:01
Speaker
I just can't remember exactly what it was. But the night that that she broke up, that my first girlfriend broke up with me and told me that it's lived something in me just snapped in a sense to where i everything went dark for me.
00:24:13
Speaker
So I got very depressed. And the thing was, is that when I was at my this happened at my dad's house. So my dad has a train track. The train goes by and stuff every single day.
00:24:26
Speaker
So I literally when she told me that and everything, I kind of like just blanked out. And so I literally went behind my dad's house and started walking towards the train tracks and a train was coming.
00:24:38
Speaker
And then all of a sudden at the last, almost at the last second, my stepbrother actually came and snagged and snatched me off the train track, train trails at that time. And that's why i went to hospital that and night. I just started crying and everything. I was saying, you know, nobody loves me.
00:24:53
Speaker
i don't feel like I'm worth anything. i just feel like that, you know, like the world is against me and that I'm never going really find somebody or just feel like nobody's really going to cherish me or love me for me.
00:25:04
Speaker
Right. And that really hit hard for me because it's because of, you know, not be able to see, not being able to have both of my parents in the same household too. Also as well, the funny thing is that the, nobody really told me or taught me anything about girlfriends, taught me anything about really any type of life lessons like that.
00:25:23
Speaker
ah Except for me watching television. Surprisingly. And the thing is, I'm an anime fan. So anime really got me because of life lessons. Surprisingly. So like at that time, depression i was very depressed.
00:25:35
Speaker
And i it took a while for me to pretty much get back on my feet. because like At least operate as usual. How long? Probably three months.
00:25:48
Speaker
Wow. And you were how old at this time? I was... dark I was, uh, 15 going on 16. 15 going on 16. So what finally brought you out of that dark place?
00:26:02
Speaker
What brought me out of it was the thing of after school, my grandma got me signed up with ah the Boys and Girls Club. So after school, I'd go the Boys and Girls Club, play basketball there, chill out.
00:26:16
Speaker
They had a whole game room with me on a computer, stuff like that. So that kind of like over time started bringing me, getting me back to the norm. Mm-hmm. Things. And so when you're talking about so when you're talking about from school, then then doing after school activities, like going to the boys and girls club, that's much everybody to go anyway.
00:26:38
Speaker
They'll shoot basketball and stuff like that. Plus, it was safer for my grandma instead of me going to like the actual basketball courts and stuff like that, because, you know, you never really know. what could happen. Right.
00:26:49
Speaker
It was a safer option. So I appreciate it for that. So that's really kind of what started getting me out there because it's like one started making me ah kind of forget about that in a sense. And then also started developing friendships as well at that time too.
00:27:03
Speaker
Okay. So throughout high school, you're going to the Boys and Girls Club. You had your first girlfriend. It was major heartbreak, but you got through it. It took a little while, but you got through it.
00:27:13
Speaker
What happens after high school? What are the next steps for you? So whole goal of high school, what the intended purpose was that I was hoping to get go get into the NFL.
Shifting Dreams and Entrepreneurial Beginnings
00:27:25
Speaker
That was my first goal and purpose. And so when I noticed, though, that my coach, they have favoritism, so they favor more other players over the rest. He invests into them to go to these camps and stuff like that.
00:27:39
Speaker
But then when that didn't work out and I started realizing that I started focusing on then how about then going to try to do, you know, become like a game designer or something like that. plus I started focusing more on trying to college.
00:27:50
Speaker
But due to financial issues and everything like that, it was hard for me to do it. All these two things I want to do because I was trying to originally trying to do a full sale university. And then there was another thing. It was like the art institute somewhere in Virginia.
00:28:04
Speaker
I can't remember exactly. But they, but it was like one of the two things I was trying to get into. So I was working on my grades and everything, but i never mounted up to enough to where I can get to that.
00:28:15
Speaker
So I had to end up, I had to end up pretty much at that point. I got into selling candy in my sophomore year because I was one i trying to figure out like why is everybody selling the candy for ah whatever, right? ah sorry So my friend at the time, he knew somebody who will go to Roses.
00:28:35
Speaker
Yeah. And would actually go in there, steal the boxes of candy. We paying five bucks. He goes in there, steal the boxes of candy. And then he give it to us, right? So I get like 25 things of Snickers, another 10 or 15 of ah like some M&M's, stuff like that.
00:28:48
Speaker
And I go to go back to high school and I start selling them for $1.50, something like that. And then one time I made like about $200, $300 in a week. I'm like, wait a minute.
00:29:01
Speaker
This is what they be doing? So y'all are running an illegal candy ring in high school. That's what you're basically telling me. yeah oh yeah Yes, it definitely was.
00:29:11
Speaker
It definitely was. Okay. So is that the the start of your entrepreneurial spirit? Yes. And where did that lead you after high school? Because obviously once you graduate high school, you can't keep going back to the high school to sell candy.
00:29:25
Speaker
Yeah. So I got it. So that's when I got my first job at Food Lion around my senior year. So I was working at Food Lion. And then at this time, this course, this is an entrepreneurship and everything.
00:29:40
Speaker
I started reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad. And I started reading Think and Grow Rich. Right. And so when I was reading these books and stuff like that, and this is when the rebel side of me started kicking in. I'm like, why the hell I got to go to this stupid job for?
00:29:57
Speaker
I don't need this job. I need live my life. I need to do this and this. Right. So I got into ah this. It was, I forgot the name of the company, but it was like selling roadside assistance a long time ago.
00:30:11
Speaker
And so I will get into that. So, I was doing, I got online, looked it up and everything. So I get into that. I started like doing postings on like different Facebook groups and stuff like that.
00:30:23
Speaker
And then I had sneaker group, a dude hit me up with his name Sean. but He actually told me about another opportunity for a multi-level marketing company called world ventures, which is a travel company.
00:30:34
Speaker
Okay. And so I get into that and I actually went to, he actually got me on of his first events. And so So when he got me at of the first events, it was in like North Carolina.
00:30:50
Speaker
Right. And I was North Carolina, went to the first event. It was called like a regional market, regional marketing event. And so I went, I go there, get a chance to like, you know, see what the company is, see to all the people, the hype and excited me. Like I felt hype about it, you know, i felt great about and everything.
00:31:06
Speaker
And so I got signed up for it, paid for my membership and everything. And I started doing travel parties where like I try and invite people out, let them know exactly what the company is, try get to sign up on a membership so that way they get access to exclusive deals of travel and everything.
00:31:21
Speaker
And so I was doing that. actually literally stuck with this for like about two, three years, funny enough. And so I went to one of the big, I went to one of big events.
00:31:33
Speaker
The first one was in Glendale, Arizona. Mind you, when I was in Glendale, Arizona, it was still my sophomore year. I mean, no, this my senior year now. And I was...
00:31:45
Speaker
When I was working at Food Lion and I was also going to the barbershop to sweep hair to make some money, even had like a tip jar and everything just I could raise enough money to just even make it there. Because I know by flight I won't go have enough money for it.
00:31:57
Speaker
But I was able to do it through a bus. So raise up enough money to make it to get a Greyhound bus to take a 32 hour bus ride there. 32 hours.
00:32:09
Speaker
Now, I'm going to this too real quick. It's a Greyhound by day. It's a Freakhound by night. There's a lot of crazy stuff I've seen. John Gage. Going to Glendale, Arizona.
00:32:22
Speaker
It was a lot of weird stuff. ah But I get to Arizona. I get to Glendale, Arizona. And I meet up with everybody there. That's why met some of my other friends. Like Jonathan Dula, Nick. And go to the band. It was like a giant stadium. Everything. It was amazing.
00:32:39
Speaker
if It really like... One, I developed friendships. And also, too, as well, I was able to develop an exp experience of where, you know, there's something more out here than just me living in a poor area all my life.
00:32:51
Speaker
Right. It's more opportunity for me to do things and stuff like that. So that's what really started giving that launching career into, like, me getting to work, me getting to at least entrepreneurship and be able to get a bigger, like, view of life, how it could, like, different ways of how it could possibly be.
00:33:10
Speaker
Okay. That's cool. That opened up your, that opened up your overview, getting out of this small town. You meet people from different walks of life. This was your education in life.
00:33:20
Speaker
Yeah.
The 'Growth Unscripted Podcast' Journey
00:33:29
Speaker
So let's fast forward to you starting the growth unscripted podcast. What made you start it? What was the spark? And what is the podcast about?
00:33:42
Speaker
Okay. So funny enough, how Growth Unscripted even got started was me and my friend. We were trying advise like some different names pretty much. So I was, so first it was actually, wasn't even called Growth Unscripted at first. It was actually called SoulSync.
00:33:57
Speaker
Because I actually like talking about relationships and stuff like that. Right. And so it was soul sync. But then going back, looking at them, you know, I talk about a lot of different things.
00:34:08
Speaker
So, yes, I talk about relationships, spirituality, but also, you know, motivation, talk about life, conspiracy theories, all of that. And so I was so like when you hear the name soul sink, it thinks more relationship more so than something more broader.
00:34:21
Speaker
So go back to drawing board. and I was like, you know, I want something that doesn't really appease to anybody. Like I want it to be like something where it's like, it's me. And either you like me, you don't like, that's all. the That's really what I wanted to be.
00:34:35
Speaker
And so kept going over different names and stuff like that. And me, him devise a name called growth unscripted. I was like, you know what? That sounds pretty fire. I like that because it more it gets more into being raw, be more into um being more authentic with yourself.
00:34:52
Speaker
And also as well as something that software well that is more broad to get into different topics all in one. And so that's how it growth unscripted pretty much at least the name of and everything got a part of it and pretty much what it's about.
00:35:04
Speaker
Now, what motivated me behind it is even doing podcasting anyway, was because one, I like to talk. I like having deep, I like having deep high level conversations. That's one thing about me. don't mind surface level conversations from time to time, but I actually do that. What's really like my bread and butter is getting into that deep spirit of resonation because I know when I'm in, I get into a high of it because getting goosebumps when I'm talking.
00:35:27
Speaker
And that's when I know I'm really getting into it. Right. And so when, so one of the things that kind of really motivated me though, to even do podcasting and stuff is because one, of course, I mean, I want to build a better future.
00:35:38
Speaker
Not even just for myself, but also I have a daughter. She's five years old. She's a sassy little thing too. but she But she's she's honestly my biggest is motivation because of, you know, we talked about like my childhood and everything like that. is i don't want One, I don't want her to ever experience anything like that in any type of way.
00:35:57
Speaker
Like I want to provide her life to where she either wants to go to college, don't want to go to college. She wants to travel the world, everything. I want to be able to give her that opportunity to do so without any type of restrictions.
00:36:10
Speaker
And know order for me to do that, I have to make sure to better myself and improve my foundation for who I am. Because if I can't do that, then nobody else is going to do it but me at the end of the day.
00:36:21
Speaker
And so that's pretty so that's pretty much really what's got me started on doing Growth Unscripted for podcasting. Okay. And as a new podcaster, what are some of the things that you've learned about podcasts and that you didn't expect or you didn't expect would be as hard as they are? In the hindsight of things, i would think, you know, podcast, it was okay.
00:36:41
Speaker
Get a camera, get a lighter. So get a microphone and that's it. And that's pretty much that you're good to go. Which in a sense it is, at the same time, if you're talking about, especially you talking about having people own your podcast and everything like that, there's a lot into one, you got schedule it out.
00:36:58
Speaker
You got to keep up with it, especially you're somebody like me to where if it's placed on your calendar some way, somehow, And if you just thinking of it, try retaining your head, you're going to end messing yourself up.
00:37:10
Speaker
And so between keeping up everything and also just the lengthiness of being able to, if you don't have the money for it, have do the editing.
00:37:21
Speaker
Have to make sure the sound is good prior. Have to you know make sure like you at least look presentable. like Everything. There's just so many different things that goes into it than what the surface level is.
00:37:34
Speaker
for podcasting. So have you found it more challenging
00:37:41
Speaker
to what you originally thought it was going to be, or are you getting what you expected out of it? Now I'm getting what I'm expected out of it because one of the things I love you about podcasting is just a point of meeting new people, different people from different aspects, what they do. And plus as well as possible collaborations too, as well that like.
00:38:00
Speaker
So being able to talk to other people and meet them for what they're doing, because they may have something I may need or may have something that they may need or some way I might be able to help them out and vice versa.
00:38:11
Speaker
So I'm really big on collaborations. That's me. So like have a really big heart. And I'm a naturally a nice person. now I'm also I'm a genuine person who really want people to win and to succeed in life because I know my blessings will come anywhere regardless. But long as I'm doing what's right in my heart for other people, I know everything else will fall in line in due time.
00:38:32
Speaker
As long as I'm remaining consistent and staying intentional when I do move. So you've done 10 episodes so far. How many of them have been just you and how many of them have been guests?
00:38:44
Speaker
So honestly, only one has been me. Okay. that that The rest of them has been guests. Now that one that's been you, ah that's where you were talking about some struggles that you were going through at that particular time while filming that episode, correct?
00:39:01
Speaker
Yes. Can you tell my audience a little bit about that particular episode before we get into some of the episodes that you've had with other guests? Yes. so So with that episode, that happened literally last year in December.
00:39:15
Speaker
Pretty much what happened was I work at security. i was doing a field technician, IT, t where I was driving on the road pretty much all the time. And this is when I was staying with my ex in her parents' house and stuff as well.
00:39:29
Speaker
So it So I started working at beginning of January of last year, right? Where, you know, hey, pay good money and stuff like that and everything. But when I started being a little bit more on my own, having to go to these jobs and stuff by myself and everything, it just started becoming more lonely in a sense of when I got to go through those four jobs,
00:39:51
Speaker
You're talking like me going from here to Delaware, me going from here to South Carolina, right? And it's not simply me going there to that one job and that's it. You're talking about me going from there to wherever that further job is in South Carolina. Then I go to Charleston, South Carolina.
00:40:05
Speaker
Then I got to that i go to Charlotte, North Carolina. Then I have to go to probably maybe somewhere in Mechanicsville, Chesterfield or whatever, right? Like going to three to maybe four jobs in a day. So by the time I get home,
00:40:17
Speaker
I'm already going to be at home around like maybe 9, 10 o'clock at night, probably even eleven And so by that time you're talking about one, barely to see my daughter, if she even awake.
00:40:29
Speaker
And on top that, by the time I get home, she's asleep. And it's this and one thing about me is that I care a lot about my daughter. And plus, I want to see her spend time with her. So when I'm working so much now is weighing weight heavier on my mental.
00:40:44
Speaker
So what ended up happening was, is that what I used to do was I used to go to the jobs. And I go do the job and everything. I just finish early. but I don't clock out.
00:40:55
Speaker
I don't clock out of the job early, though. I still remain clocked in because I actually had a spoof for location set up on my phone where I could spoof my location. So it still stays there. So I would do that. And then I would check out a job after an hour or so later.
00:41:09
Speaker
So I still get paid, paid money, paid a good amount of money, but still be able to make a home in time to be able spend time with my daughter. And so ended eventually catching up to me. They found out ended up getting fired from my job. And then the next day after that, me and my girlfriend broke up.
00:41:25
Speaker
And so it wasn't like we ended on anything bad. It was just more so that, you know, hey, we're both moving different walks of life. So you prefer more like steady, want to go more like live off in the country and stuff, type lifestyle. And that's cool.
00:41:39
Speaker
But except for me, especially my line of work, I want to live somewhere where can actually be able associate with talk to people and everything like that. And also, too, as well, just because of a lot of past stuff that we both had together.
00:41:51
Speaker
from when we used to live together a long time ago, they just that trauma wall that she just could never really get over. So, so due to that, even though we were doing couple of therapy for three months, yeah I think that therapy session really more so open her eyes are more to that. She just can't get over this.
00:42:08
Speaker
Get over what? So it get over the trauma from, get over any type past trauma that we both had together when we used to live together. It wasn't like something like crazy, like me being like AWOL crazy or anything like that.
00:42:20
Speaker
It was just more so just like a lot of issues that struggle with us from an intimacy level. So where it just caused a lot of issues over time. So that pretty much so pretty much I create frustrations.
00:42:32
Speaker
They created us ah arguing with each other and all that type of stuff. And so that ended up pretty much just creating a ah big wall for us. pretty much to where she just can never get over Even though yes, I've changed way after that, but just that, even though she still clings onto it.
00:42:48
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, that romantic side was just gone. Romantic side was gone. So when you say that there were issues in the relationship, can you make a parallel between the relationship with her and the relationships you had with your parents? So pretty much after, so pretty what ended up happening was before our recent breakup, we was we didn' get but we went together for a whole year the year prior.
00:43:13
Speaker
So we went together a whole year. So back in February of 2023, I did therapy and stuff. And so when I see therapy and everything, I start talking with my therapist. She asked me some questions and then when me answering the questions, it started really having me open my eyes up to a lot of things. So where due to both my parents, that both being in my life all the time that I would want it to, as much would want to, it started creating like, you know, say like the lack of, you know, love.
00:43:43
Speaker
And also as well to just the abandonment issues and everything like that. So I'm a very touchy-feely person. So like when I, so one of the things that kind of pretty much created issue was that because I was so touchy-feely, she funny enough, she was like that at the beginning, but then over time when me her got, when me her together and stuff, she started changing slowly and slowly. And then after we had our daughter, that's when things pretty much just went dead at that point.
00:44:11
Speaker
And so, I realized that me wanting to like be intimate all the time or me wanting to be touchy-feely all the time or be around her just because it's the lack of love I didn't get as a kid.
00:44:23
Speaker
And so that carried over into the relationship. Even though like I'm a very caring person, like i I'm the type of person to where like I would do things for you while you're having to ask because that's just who I am. And then if I know there's certain things you like, I would take my time to i take my effort out to make sure to do those certain things to make sure you're good.
00:44:40
Speaker
And so it was just starting to get to a point to her to where like she was, she was starting to become more of the opposite now. So where she just prefer more quality time and she doesn't really fare for all the other stuff and everything like that.
00:44:53
Speaker
But it was a big issue because at that time, me and her, it was more, it was starting to become more of the point of, there was a lot of past trauma that she had going on and I had going on to where we both needed to fix, need to fix this stuff.
00:45:12
Speaker
And so when we did get back together in 2024 of last year, it was going good forw for a little while. But then when once again, the intimacy thing happened again, a started career really more so crazy too. And it was not like I want to say- When you say the intimacy thing, you mean a lack of and lack of yeah and lack of intimacy from Correct.
00:45:36
Speaker
So not saying, you know, we had to have sex all the time or anything like that, but more so just, you know, like words of affirmation, like speaking life into me stuff like that. I'm always been a point to initiate everything first, 99% of the time.
00:45:49
Speaker
So I pretty much always said, I love you every day, complimenting you every day, and just want to give you massages and stuff too every day and stuff like that, or at least every other day or whatever. Just if I see you tired or exhausted you've been working all day, you know, just help out.
00:46:05
Speaker
So I've always been one to initiate everything. She never did. So damn it. Even when a therapist, when we're doing therapy and stuff and the therapist recommended that we kind of like switch roles in terms of love language and stuff like that.
00:46:17
Speaker
It was still, it was moving. but it wasn't moving fast in a sense. Okay. It was still, it was, and honestly too, when we started going to the whole point about like ah when we were living together and everything like that, when we started diving more into that and stuff, the, there,
00:46:38
Speaker
the therapist recommended that she write down like all the things from her point of view of what have happened and what's possibly causing her to be the whole back. And so that kind of pretty much when she did that and the next session she read it out loud.
00:46:51
Speaker
yeah Honestly, I felt bad about myself because of all those things I did thought because all of all the things on my side that I'd done. But at time too, but at same time two that's pretty much too as well. as same time That's where it can ah kind of created that realization for her that because of this, she realized now she just can't get over this yeah because that happened.
00:47:12
Speaker
So as you're telling this story, and and thank you for sharing it with our audience, as you're telling the story for your audience, What was the feedback that you got as you opened yourself up to your audience and explaining the things that you're dealing with on an emotional level? What was the feedback from the audience?
00:47:33
Speaker
For people that have listened in and everything, they said that they totally understand and that some of them also have been through some of the same situations, similar situations. So kind of gave her feet. So kind of gave a sense of, you know, I'm not alone.
00:47:47
Speaker
Right. Which I appreciate. And I love them for that. But also as well, they got some of them actually too felt inspired because of course in that episode when I was talking about myself and everything, ah so i was also in episode two where I said, hey, you know, like the next day or two out there, like me and her spoke in front her parents and everything about pretty much like we was going to, you know, not be together anymore, but a co-parent.
00:48:10
Speaker
And then I was going to work on, i was actually going to go to move to Florida. and stuff because there's more opportunity there and then how her mom said, well, you leaving your daughter, you're abandoning at her and you just want to traumatize her. And then how I broke down crying because that because it wasn't just more so that what she said, it was more so because all my life, I've always been told by people stuff like, you know, that I want to abandon my daughter or that I'm going I'm not doing enough, my daughter or that I'm just not being the best father I could be for her.
00:48:43
Speaker
And I know I'm doing the absolute best that I can, it's just that when her mom said that though, it just gave like that last hit. So it just made me to start fully breaking down crying. But then while I was crying, it literally gave, when was crying though, that's when I started having ah have the vision of knowing that, knowing what I'm doing right.
00:49:03
Speaker
Cause the only thing, cause one thing realized was that, you know, God gave me the vision what he sees what i'm capable of. And that it's not meant for everybody to understand. And the thing is that as long as I know what I'm doing is right in my heart, in my spirit, and I'm not causing or doing any type of ill will to anybody else, then I know I'm on the right path.
00:49:22
Speaker
And thing is, I'm not going please everybody at the end of day. That's the honest truth. that's gonna be Because regardless whether I'm doing good I'm doing bad, regardless, there's always going to be somebody who's going to nitpick or hate on you regardless.
00:49:35
Speaker
no matter what it is. The only thing that matters at the end of the day is that you're doing right for you because for me, I do my best to think logically. And also, I tell a person I run multiple scenarios in my head every single day. It's actually pretty crazy.
00:49:48
Speaker
But i the thing is, though, i how can I expect to do right for my daughter if I can't get my own
Personal Growth and Future Plans
00:49:54
Speaker
self straight first? like My own foundation is not right. Because the order for me to protect her, in order for me to support her, in order for me to take care of her the way I need to, I got to make sure I'm good so I can be able to do that for her.
00:50:05
Speaker
So as long as I'm doing my part within the midst of all that, still being there for her, still talking to her, still no spending my time with her as many times as I can, that's what matters the most in the midst of me working on everything.
00:50:17
Speaker
And that's one thing that i had to really understand within my so skin inside myself and be able to move forward in order for me to ah in order for me to be able to push forward and push past the whole thing between my girlfriend and my ex-girlfriend and my ah job and everything like that.
00:50:36
Speaker
So you just keep moving forward. So you're having these type of conversations where you're opening it up on your podcast, you personally opening up, your you, the host, are opening up on your podcast.
00:50:49
Speaker
Does that set the tone throughout the podcast for guests to open up to have these real conversations and these real personal conversations? Yeah, because the thing that and I'm not very, I'm honestly not a judgmental person.
00:51:04
Speaker
And the thing that I'm shit sure to anybody who follows my podcast and listen to my podcast faithfully, they're not judgmental either. Because the thing is that nobody's perfect at the end of the day.
00:51:15
Speaker
can We are going to have our problems. We're all going have error issues. But the thing is is that my whole point of Growth Unscripted is to provide that light, provide that opportunity for guests to get on and just be themselves.
00:51:28
Speaker
And let's talk about what's really going in their life. Because my whole thing is let people know, let the other people outside know, listening in that no matter who you are, no matter you making up billion dollars a year to a hundred dollars a year or whatever.
00:51:43
Speaker
Like you're still a human being at the end of the day. It doesn't matter what it is, what part of life you're coming from. It's the whole point to show people that you are you and that you, it's not like you just popped out the womb and boom, you're successful and here you are.
00:51:56
Speaker
Like when people look at these celebrities everything like that, they idolize them. And they think that, you know, that these people don't really have any major issues going in their lives. And they're just like these beings that just keep going and working.
00:52:10
Speaker
If that was the case, then why is there that so many celebrities actually committed suicide or in depression or in these homes and stuff like that because of all this stuff they're going through? Because these are things that they have they don't have an outlet for. They don't have nowhere to really speak their truth or at least speak their mind without some type of individual or some type of people that's going to judge them regardless.
00:52:31
Speaker
They don't have safe spaces. Correct. And so this ah so Growth Are Scripted is nothing more than a safe space for people to be able to be themselves. And it's talk. If you always wanted to have like certain level conversations, I'm here for that.
00:52:44
Speaker
Like I'm like, I don't care what it is. if you want to talk about a damn near Snickers bar, I don't care. Let's have a conversation. The Snickers bar, the stolen Snickers bars that you were selling back in high school.
00:52:55
Speaker
So what's the future look like for Growth Unscripted and for yourself? So right now I'm working on trying to get into more. I'm trying to get more into the community. So do some so due to my financial situation and everything, I'm actually staying in Richmond, Virginia for right now, for the rest of this year.
00:53:13
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So what I'm going to do is that I'm going to work on trying to build community. I want to get inside the Richmond community. actually want get inside the DMV area, period, altogether. Because I actually want to get to know the peoples within the within the communities, what they're working on and everything like that.
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Because I want to find ways how I can either collab with them, get them on podcasts, and probably even set up a thing to where where we have a whole segment to where we do a live podcast session. To where you know we run out a restaurant or a event space, get people come in They ask their questions about any type of thing they want for Points of Life, whether that's talking about business, whether that's talking about relationships or anything like that.
00:53:51
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And you get like a live thing, a live ah audience. Yeah, live audience and stuff to where you get like a whole panel and we just talk, talk, have conversations with them. And that's the one thing. That's one thing I want to I'm working on trying to do right now is getting more involved so I can make that happen.
00:54:06
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And also trying to ah get into more of. I got, so the thing is I want to get my, I want to personally get my own studio personally.
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so I want to get my own studio. but So for the time being though, I'm actually leveraging one of my peoples, he has a media company and he actually got a studio that he's actually letting, be able to let me ah capitalize and use where has all the equipment and lighting and everything.
00:54:33
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And it's actually a good deal too. 250 bucks. They do the shooting, they do the distribution, the editing, everything. So, hey, honestly, that's not a bad deal compared to what I've been coming across. Yeah.
00:54:46
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So it's more so i want to work on, though, try to do more, get my own studio, at least do more of those so I get more professional setups. Because I'll be honest, I'm personally bougie. I ain't going to I'm bougie.
00:54:56
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But I'd be bougie though, smart though. If I know if I can't do something that I'm not going to to force it to happen if I can't actually do it. Well, I want to thank you for coming on the show.
00:55:06
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i want to thank you for sharing your story, giving my audience not only a look into your personal life, but also your professional life and the things that you've got going on with Growth Unscripted and your podcast, and the the ideas that you have for the future of your podcast.
00:55:22
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oh Thank you for coming on and sharing that. with the audience. I know they're going to really enjoy listening and watching ah your story, your growth from this point, from your 10th podcast to your 200th, to your 300th, to your 400th. So I wish you nothing but success.
00:55:38
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And want to thank you again for coming on the podcast. Oh, man. Thank you so much. And also one last thing just for ah this to let everybody know. ah got me If I want to, y'all can follow me at growthunscripted.podcast on Instagram.
00:55:51
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And also as well, just so you know, i actually do have my coaching sessions um all set up now. So if you actually hit my link in my bio, you cannna you can actually book a free 30-minute consultation and I can actually help create you, strategize.
00:56:04
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We can help create and strategize a way to help you execute on any goals or anything that you got going on. as well. All right. So audience, you heard it and we're going to put all that information in the description section of the podcast so that y'all can all find it. And you'll also find this bio on our website that'll have all that information on there where you can get your free 30 minute consultation to strategize it and get right in life. water Thank you again for coming on. I really appreciate it.
00:56:34
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Now, thank you so much, Bruce. Your podcast is amazing. I can't wait to even listen to more episodes that you got and you see what you got going on next. Thank you. I appreciate No problem. You have a nice one, brother.
00:56:45
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You too. I want to thank Devante once again for coming on the show and and sharing so much about his personal life. You know, as a podcast host myself, I feel that it's important to open up and share stories about yourself, not only because it creates a narrative of what your podcast is going to be about, who the host is so that you know who the host is.
00:57:09
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And it also creates a directive for all the guests to say, look, this is how we do things on our podcast. Don't come on here unless you're ready to talk and open up. And Devante came on this podcast and he opened up. Why?
00:57:24
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Because I've opened up and he's opened up on his own podcast. So if you can expect his guests to open up on his podcast as well because he's an open book. And that's what you should be if you decide to have your own show.
00:57:39
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Your audience has to know you. Your audience has to like you. Your audience has to respect you. The only way to do that is by showing who you are authentically. not to create some facade or idea that people want you to be, but be exactly who you are.
00:57:56
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And if you are who you are, People will want to listen because everybody's got a story to tell. Everybody has a story to tell. And Devante told a hell of a story today, not only from his childhood and his upbringing, but just his adult life and the struggles that he's going through still today because of things that happened in his childhood trauma, y'all.
00:58:18
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That's what me and my sister always bring up. Childhood trauma. It affects all of us, even in our adulthood. And I love the fact that he's going to therapy to try and prove upon And try and better himself.
00:58:31
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For his daughter. Everything he does for his daughter. And that's commendable. That's the way it should be. So go check out his podcast. Like I said all the information. For his podcast. And his 30 minute free consultation. Will be in the description section here. the podcast. freedom And ladies and gentlemen.
00:58:49
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I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. And until next time. As always. the
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I'll holler.
00:59:01
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That was a hell of a show. Thank you for rocking with us here on Unsolicited Perspectives with Bruce Anthony. Now, before you go, don't forget to follow, subscribe, comment, and share our podcast wherever you're listening or watching it to it. Pass it along to your friends. If you enjoy it, that means the people that you rock will will enjoy it also.
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Peace.