you get to decide your American dream and because i was homeless and because i was
a high school dropout and because people came and saved me they took me from that abandoned building
they dropped me off at night school and helped me to get my ged they walked me through the four-year
degree they walked me through the master's degree they walked me through the phd i they only told
me pay it forward and so i'm trying to spend the rest of my life paying it forward what do you want
and when you know what you want you will do anything it takes to get it you will study as
long as it takes you will figure out your diet you won't go to sleep till you figure out what
your daddy is you won't go to sleep till you figure out who your audience who you're going
to impact you won't go to sleep until you've read every piece of information in this course so you
know it like the back of your head you won't go to sleep until you have the knowledge that it
takes to do what you're able to do so i'll ask you what's the american dream for you and the
more clarity you have the quicker you're going to get to the dot see you can't get to the dot
cause you ain't got to the dream it's hard it's tough you don't have clarity and so that's what i
need us to work on i need to get that clarity but it's easy to get the clarity when we had a dream
and i know what i want y'all let me tell y'all something i've owned multiple homes and i know
what that feeling is like you know when you close but my my my what a feeling it is to
take kids from urban cities in the midwest to california who've never been there before
let me tell y'all the biggest thing all right two big things one big thing was you know somebody
asked this one kid you know what was the best part of this trip for you they thought he was
going to say super bowl you know meeting cp3 you know all the stuff they thought he said the bed
he said what do you mean by that he said i haven't slept in the bed in two years my mom and i have
been homeless living from place to place i sleep on the floor he was like just the bed for me it
was the bed for me i was like whoa whoa i gave somebody a bed in california and look i did it so
big i didn't take them to l.a i sent them to san diego and put them in a hotel right off the harbor
and then we got my limo and drove them back to l.a back and forth are you hearing what i'm saying but
here's the bigger part the bigger part for me were the kids that said we can't believe we're here i
said what do you mean by that so many people in our lives have made us promises and lied to us
that we didn't even believe you were telling us the truth when you told us you was going to take
us to the super bowl i know my i know my why i know why i get up that's the problem with a lot of
you you're a great person you've got a phenomenal story you're gonna be able to change somebody's
life for some of you i'm gonna need to simplify it for you all right i'm gonna need to simplify
when they say that mindset i want to simplify it so so i'm i'm telling you as a high school dropout
i'm telling you as somebody who was homeless who for two and a half years either lived in a car
in an abandoned building in somebody's basement under the bed sneaking hot on the bed
in a restaurant no i just gotta tell y'all cause a lot of y'all you may not know who e.t is
so you just heard the p.a.d pastor no no no no let me tell you the 16 year old who left home
right because i found out the person that was raising me wasn't my biological father
i kind of knew it but didn't know it like i'm talking about left school right i'm talking about
eating out of trash cans not taking showers not able to brush my teeth i'm going to chur come on
i want to take you back i don't want you to look at this like this guy doesn't exist let's not
we're not speaking from this guy this guy's not helpful to me right now we're going to go back
to the 16 year old who had absolutely nothing and who's considered the number one motivational
speaker in the world who's considered come on y'all i'm in i'm in the industry with legends i'm
in the industry i'm in a speaking industry with legends who are killing the game in business who
are killing the game in impact i'm i'm among the legends y'all what is this thing i'm just telling
y'all from my personal experience i'm telling you i was homeless right not because i'm proud
of it i wasn't brushing my teeth i'm not proud of that i wasn't taking a shower when i would go
to different events i smell i'm not i was homeless homeless like not like radio homeless tv home like
i was homeless homeless i'm not proud of that but the question is how did you go from that to this
how did you go from that to being invited to this how did you go from that to being in this
circle of influence how did you go from that to doing commercials how did you go from that e.t
bringing kids to super taking kids to you how did you how did you do it e how did you do it and i'm
going to tell you something you're going to be excited because 60 of what you need to take your
business to the next level is you right there it's you oh man i'm trying to tell y'all
if i'm trying to tell you i listen to me i'm trying to tell y'all so you some of you
trying to figure out can i be honest actually when you figure out who you are and you start
loving you and valuing you and believing you and walking in you and showing up you
that's the problem with most of you believe it or not you're not showing up you
you making adjustments for other people cause they told you not to get into business
you you making a listen to me i'm not trying to be funny a large portion of humans i'm saying
70 you not you your boss got you something else so somebody a friend has you somebody
do you know that you would be much more successful if you could just always be you the problem is
you dumb me down the problem is you compromise you're not often you you're not up and dr sue said
nobody can be your than you but the problem is you're not you you're being you're being
pressed by the culture you're being pressed by the media you're being pressed by people close to you
can i tell you what the day e.t blew up is the day e.t just stopped the day listen to me very close
i got a big event to go too soon somebody was like what are you wearing i said i'm wearing me
i'm coming as e.t i'm coming i'm covering his e.t
i'm not about to go to louis vuitton or gucci there's nothing wrong with those stores but
i'm not about to go get dressed up i'm coming as e.t because that's who you invited right
i'm not about to spend thousand dollars on some clothes to be somebody that i'm not
i'm about to show up e i'm about to show me and why am i gonna show up me because i know me works
it's when i'm not me because i'm trying to be what you want me to be that i mess up