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Uplift: Motivational speaker and co‑founder of Next Level Living, which feeds a thousand children weekly in South Africa. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My guess is one of the premier motivational speakers in
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Speaker 1: the country. He created the Next Level Speakers Academy, where
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Speaker 1: he trains thousands of individuals to show them how they
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Speaker 1: can take their marketing and a message to the world.
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Speaker 1: He's also co founded Next Level Living, where one of
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Speaker 1: their initiative is to provide monthly mails to thousands of
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Speaker 1: young children and five Cape Town, South African communities. Please
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Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversations for the first time. Jeremy Anderson,
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Speaker 1: how are you doing so?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 2: Blessed man to see really good man, Honored Man of
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Speaker 2: the Year.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Maxine King, good friend of mine, and I was
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Speaker 1: honored the host, the met your beautiful wife.
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Speaker 2: There's a family affair. It was.
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Speaker 1: It was getting honor like man of the year before
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Speaker 1: we get into an interview. What does that mean to you?
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Speaker 3: You know, similar to what I should have in my
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Speaker 3: acceptance speech, right.
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Speaker 2: Like, they were honoring me as Man of the Year.
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Speaker 3: But I felt like I was just a man that
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Speaker 3: was supported, a man that was covered in prayer, a.
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Speaker 2: Man that was coached up, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: I felt like, you know, I was a man that
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Speaker 3: was able to pay homage in respect to those who
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Speaker 3: came before me, who paved the way for me, right right,
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Speaker 3: So I didn't want to say it before them, to say, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm the Man of the year.
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Speaker 2: It's like, now I'm a man of the year because
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Speaker 2: of my.
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Speaker 3: Pop, because of my mom, because of my wife, because
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Speaker 3: of others who have poured into me to help shape
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Speaker 3: and mold the man.
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Speaker 2: You see today.
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Speaker 1: You know a word that two words is used a
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Speaker 1: lot with athletics, used the word wasted potential, and I
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Speaker 1: wanted to bring that into our conversation because a lot
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Speaker 1: of people realized wasted potential applies to you. When I
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Speaker 1: say you, not you, I'm talking about you who are
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Speaker 1: listening to the show. And how do you derive with
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Speaker 1: wasted potential? And how can someone not fall in that pit?
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Speaker 1: If they fall in the pit, how can they climb
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Speaker 1: out of that wasted potential pit.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest, man, My life's work is to
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Speaker 3: help people not experience waste the potential because that.
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Speaker 2: Was once me.
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Speaker 3: Like, I've always been this guy to my core, but
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Speaker 3: I wasn't living a life for purpose right. So years
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Speaker 3: ago when I was growing up, drugging, alcohol abuse, a
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Speaker 3: diagnosis of ADHD, living without my biological father, like failing
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Speaker 3: the ninth grade three different times. I failed, and I
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Speaker 3: was blaming everybody else. But I got to a point
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Speaker 3: where I was like, I'm not playing the blame game.
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Speaker 3: I'm about to focus on me and go all in.
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Speaker 3: And so I was able to rehabilitate my life, my
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Speaker 3: soul become this new person. Now over the last sixteen years,
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Speaker 3: I've been living this life of purpose, And so I
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Speaker 3: tell other individuals like a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Have wasted potential.
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Speaker 3: That means they got something great inside them, but they
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Speaker 3: don't see it. They got something great inside them, they
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Speaker 3: don't know how to tap into it. They got something
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Speaker 3: great aside them, but they think like time has passed.
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Speaker 3: They got some great inside them, but they can't get
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Speaker 3: over the victim mindset. They got some great inside them,
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Speaker 3: but they don't know how to pursue the.
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Speaker 2: Thing that God has already put inside of them.
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Speaker 3: So that wasted potential is a real thing that people
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Speaker 3: struggle with every single day, and so I try to
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Speaker 3: show them like, no, no, no, it's a whole little world
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Speaker 3: out here. There's so much more you can accomplish and
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Speaker 3: achieve if you believe and then you pursue it. But
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Speaker 3: most people don't be paid. They don't believe it, and
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Speaker 3: they don't pursue it. And so that's what we call
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Speaker 3: waste the potential.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know a lot of people because of the
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Speaker 2: word fear.
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Speaker 1: Now, waste depicture offers a direction that you don't know
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Speaker 1: and that will create fear. So I'm just building our
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Speaker 1: conversation at Jeremy because I think there's a journey when
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Speaker 1: you are constantly motivating people your academy, that's what it does, right,
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Speaker 1: and one wants to come to your academy. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people have a perception of what motivation is or
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Speaker 1: what public speaking is. When one comes to your academy,
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Speaker 1: what are you trying to achieve and what perception are
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Speaker 1: you trying to tell people not.
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Speaker 2: To come with?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first thing is people coming all the time.
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Speaker 3: They like, I'm trying to get the bag. They like,
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Speaker 3: You've been a seventh figure speaking for years. I've been
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Speaker 3: watching you. I see your house, I see how you live.
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Speaker 3: I want to be speaking for the bag. And I'm like,
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Speaker 3: don't come to me for profits, come to me for purpose,
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Speaker 3: don't come for me for income, come to me for impact.
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Speaker 3: Because if your heart is in the right place and
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Speaker 3: you really do care about people and you really do
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Speaker 3: want to add value to the people's lives, now I'm
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Speaker 3: i gonna show you how to live impact and make
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Speaker 3: the income. Like I'm gonna show you how to live
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Speaker 3: a life a purpose and make profits. So the first
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Speaker 3: thing I look for is, didn't even care about people?
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Speaker 2: Because what I'm.
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Speaker 3: Giving you is too potent, it's too powerful, it's too
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Speaker 3: anointed for me to just give it to you. And
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Speaker 3: you go out here and just chase the bag, but
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Speaker 3: you're not really chasing the hearts of people, and so
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Speaker 3: that's the first thing I look for, and then I
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Speaker 3: take them to a process where I say, Okay, now
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Speaker 3: let me show you what it looks like. Because a
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Speaker 3: lot of folks is like, I never thought i'd make
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Speaker 3: this type of money. I get so excited what folks
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Speaker 3: called me or face tied me, and they in tears
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Speaker 3: and they're like, man, I got one check for an
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Speaker 3: hour on stage, and this is more than I would
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Speaker 3: have made two three months breaking my regular job.
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Speaker 2: So we're showing them how to honest.
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Speaker 3: Their story, how to go deeper within, how to minister
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Speaker 3: and be a blessing and encourage people and inspire people
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Speaker 3: by sharing their story that was already within them. So
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Speaker 3: we talk about waste of potential. I'm like, you know
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Speaker 3: already went through all this pain, all this hell, all
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Speaker 3: this suffering, all this heartbreak, but you overcame it. But
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Speaker 3: you keep it to yourself. It's only a testimony if
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Speaker 3: you testify, right. So I'm telling folks like, get out here,
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Speaker 3: show your message, your story. And now they're like, WHOA,
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Speaker 3: I never thought I could be living this life. But
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Speaker 3: a lot of people on the sidelines because of what
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Speaker 3: you said.
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Speaker 1: Fear right and fear and also chasing money because everything
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Speaker 1: I do, my wife always looks at me, you know,
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Speaker 1: and she what do you charge?
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Speaker 2: Michael?
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Speaker 1: That's not why I'm talking to it, you know. I said,
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Speaker 1: if I'm trying to be a ten percent person with
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Speaker 1: that person of five percent, whatever that number is. When
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to corporations, there's always a number.
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Speaker 2: When I'm talking to individuals who.
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Speaker 1: Want me to invest in their lives, to brand their lives,
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Speaker 1: to manage their lives, to uplift their lives, I can't
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Speaker 1: see money right, And that's a purpose that I think
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Speaker 1: has enabled me because if.
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Speaker 2: I bring them value. This is the kid in the conversation.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people to understand this, Jeremy when we talk,
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Speaker 1: but we're talking about value.
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Speaker 2: Now, people pay you for your value. Absolutely talk to them. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So I tell folks all the time, like, you want
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Speaker 3: to be valuable, you got to add value. So you
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Speaker 3: got to be willing to say, Okay, what can I
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Speaker 3: do to add value? What can I do to be
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Speaker 3: a blessing? How can I solve a problem? Speakers want
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Speaker 3: to jump on stage, you just speak. I'm like, let
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Speaker 3: me tell you something. They gonna pay you about twenty
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Speaker 3: five hundred dollars max for you to jump on stage
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Speaker 3: to speak. But when you started getting the ten thousand, fifteen,
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Speaker 3: twenty thousand, fifty thousand, I'm like, they're not paying me
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Speaker 3: top dollar just because I'm motivational. I am solving a problem.
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Speaker 3: I am adding a value. So now when we're building
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Speaker 3: out their brand, we're building out the language of the website.
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Speaker 3: You know what I tell them, I say, Hey, I
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Speaker 3: want to make sure that it flows, and it doesn't
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Speaker 3: feel like.
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Speaker 2: I want to book the speaker.
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Speaker 3: I want the consumer to feel like I need to speak, Yes,
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Speaker 3: I need this speaker.
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Speaker 2: Like you're not doing me a favor by bringing me in.
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Speaker 3: I'm actually doing you a favor and I'm about to
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Speaker 3: tax you or charge you. You know what I'm saying
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Speaker 3: because I know the value that I bring. So I
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Speaker 3: talk folks all the time like lead with value and
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Speaker 3: show up and over deliver and the opportunity is going to.
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Speaker 2: Continue to flow.
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Speaker 1: The reason I really wanted to do and I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you took the time to come up my show, Money
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Speaker 1: Made Conversation Masterclass, Jeremy, is that people don't understand that
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Speaker 1: the lessons you teach at your academy can be applied
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Speaker 1: if your small business owners can be applied for you're
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Speaker 1: a foidial or executive or non executive and administration construction.
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Speaker 1: So that's the world of trying to really create here
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Speaker 1: how to take what you're training and let people know
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Speaker 1: you can apply it in your everyday life, eating in
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Speaker 1: your relationship.
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Speaker 2: So the relationship part, that's all of them. The conversation
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Speaker 2: you get to, right. But I'll say this here, the.
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Speaker 3: Same principles, the same business principles that we teach people
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Speaker 3: on the speaker side. It's the same whether somebody got
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Speaker 3: a construction company, whether they got a daycare where they
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Speaker 3: trying to open up a restaurant, whether they.
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Speaker 2: Do tax services or anything or branding online.
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Speaker 3: You need to add value and then build yourself as
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Speaker 3: a credible source. You got to build yourself, but as
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Speaker 3: the expert, right, and so what have you gone through?
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Speaker 3: So there are some people you know this, right, Folks
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Speaker 3: mess around and go to college and you done went
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Speaker 3: to business class and then you getting taught by the
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Speaker 3: structure that ain't never filled out a EI in and
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Speaker 3: they ain't never got there, they ain't never ran no business,
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Speaker 3: but they're teaching it but when you go through the
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Speaker 3: school of hard knocks and you go through real life
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Speaker 3: and you go through challenges, like life has grown you.
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Speaker 3: So there's that instant credibility where there are people that's
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Speaker 3: watching your show right now and they got five, ten, fifteen,
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Speaker 3: twenty years of experience in their company, Like there is
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Speaker 3: value that they can add. But how do they brand themselves?
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Speaker 3: How do they put themselves in the marketplace? How do
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Speaker 3: they carry themselves? Are they maximize every opportunity? So we
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Speaker 3: talking about money making moves. We having this conversation. It's
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Speaker 3: like when I'm gonna come in and speak work, this
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Speaker 3: is what speakers go wrong? Can I wax real quick?
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Speaker 3: They come in and speak and then when they get
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Speaker 3: done speaking, they just leave with a check.
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Speaker 2: It's like, nah, you stay behind.
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Speaker 3: You get pictures, you get footage, you get testimonials, you
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Speaker 3: give referrals. Well, what happens when somebody come in lake
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Speaker 3: concrete on the property I just bought. They about to
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Speaker 3: take pictures, they gonna put it on Google. They about
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Speaker 3: to get some testimonials, they gonna ask for referrals. Like
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Speaker 3: it's the same type of system and flow, and so
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Speaker 3: people have to learn when it comes to business.
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Speaker 2: It's like juicing. I want to get.
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Speaker 3: Every drop if I got a juicer and I'm putting
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Speaker 3: carrots and apples and all the shrewd in their I'm
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Speaker 3: trying to get every single drop out of this engagement,
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Speaker 3: every single drop out of this encounter, every single drop
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Speaker 3: out of this opportunity. And most people just kind of
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Speaker 3: get whatever they can get, but they're not maximizing that.
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Speaker 1: Opportunity, maximizing the key if you're listening to the show
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Speaker 1: or watching the show speaking to Jeremy and this, he
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Speaker 1: created the Next Level Speakers Academy where he trains thousands
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Speaker 1: of individuals show them how they can take their marketing
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Speaker 1: and the message to the world. We're gonna get to
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Speaker 1: another part later on in our interview where he co
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Speaker 1: found the Next Next Level Living where one of their
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Speaker 1: initiatives to provide monthly meals a thousands of young children
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Speaker 1: and five Cape Town, South African communities. Please don't go anywhere,
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Master Class.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Who should by me?
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Speaker 1: Rashaan McDonald. Money Making Conversation Masterclass continues online and Moneymaking
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Speaker 1: Conversations dot com and follow Money Making Conversation Masterclass on
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Speaker 1: Facebook X and Instagram. Let's talk about how does one
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Speaker 1: get in touch with you, Jeremy.
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Speaker 3: So, you know, through my most people see myself on YouTube.
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Speaker 3: When they're looking to book me.
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Speaker 2: They'll see video under engines under what name Jeremy Anderson
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Speaker 2: dot org.
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Speaker 3: Like they'll go to my website, but they'll typically they'll
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Speaker 3: see your motivation the video on YouTube and at the
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Speaker 3: end they'll see my website. The music slowly fades out
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Speaker 3: black screen, Jeremy Anderson dot org. That's my call after
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Speaker 3: like I'm selling everybody come to my website, but when
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Speaker 3: they go to Jeremy Anderson dot org, they see all
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Speaker 3: the different things that I do in the speaking space.
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Speaker 3: And so, you know, like with other business owners, you
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Speaker 3: got leverage social media, you got levers content TikTok and Instagram, Facebook, YouTube.
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Speaker 3: You got to continue to add value, continue to get
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Speaker 3: people the game and be a blessing to them. And
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Speaker 3: then when they're ready and they're ready to spend, they're
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Speaker 3: going to remember the people who remember them.
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Speaker 2: He's interesting.
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Speaker 3: You failed ninth grade with three times oh Man, three
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Speaker 3: different schools for the ninth grade.
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Speaker 1: I would say that two ladies in my life, Linda
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Speaker 1: Trader and Georgia Nelson, who kept me right. I was
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Speaker 1: calling them bumps when I wanted to take the easy
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Speaker 1: roller out in high school.
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Speaker 2: Now, no, call my mom up.
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Speaker 1: There and my dad. This boy is special, he's unique,
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Speaker 1: he has talents. Do not let him take the easy
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Speaker 1: road out. And in order to fail three times you
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Speaker 1: were taking the easy road out.
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Speaker 2: What got you on track?
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Speaker 3: So the first school I went to was a school
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Speaker 3: called oak Wood, and I said school Alabama, Okay.
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Speaker 2: And I was at oak Ward and I was off
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Speaker 2: the same. I ain't gonna lie bro.
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Speaker 3: I was fighting every day, starting rumbles at the school,
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Speaker 3: doing pranks. And the last thing I did is our
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Speaker 3: school got all bent out of safe because I cut
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Speaker 3: the electricity off in the school.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. That school in black and
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Speaker 2: they was like, Okay, he gotta go. So that whole
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Speaker 2: year wasted.
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Speaker 3: The next year, I went to school called Johnson High
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Speaker 3: also went hunts for Alabama. But on the first day
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Speaker 3: I had one teachers like, I ain't putting up with
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Speaker 3: your mess. I heard all about you. I ain't the one.
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Speaker 3: I got kids older than you. You ain't got to
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Speaker 3: be here if you want to be here, just that,
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Speaker 3: just the energy. It was like you just met me,
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Speaker 3: but she was already stereotype in me. And she called
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Speaker 3: herself drawing a line in the sand, and I rejected that.
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Speaker 3: I was like, I ain't trying to be here anyway.
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Speaker 3: I had some other choice words for her. Never really
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Speaker 3: went to class, never really focused, never really showed up,
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Speaker 3: failed and wasted that whole school year.
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Speaker 2: Now, the third year came around. I'm at the.
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Speaker 3: School called Huntsville High also went hunts for Alabama. And
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Speaker 3: on the first day of school, the teachers was like,
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Speaker 3: we're so glad you here, and I was like what.
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Speaker 2: They was just like, we heard so many interesting things
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Speaker 2: about you. I was like wow.
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Speaker 3: They was just like no, no, no, we believe there's
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Speaker 3: a scholar inside you. We believe that you can bounce back.
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Speaker 3: We believe there's a leader inside you. And so I
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Speaker 3: was like, wow, that's interesting. And so their energy was different,
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Speaker 3: and I saw that they kept showing up for me.
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Speaker 3: And when I saw their challenging into the pain, when
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Speaker 3: I realized teachers didn't have to be teachers, when I
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Speaker 3: realized they could have went into accounting, and they could
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Speaker 3: have took up some other professions. When I saw teachers
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Speaker 3: that was diagnosed with cancer, one was grieving her husband.
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Speaker 2: You know what I said.
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Speaker 3: One used to be an engineer, but he quit that
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Speaker 3: job to be a teacher and make a third or
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Speaker 3: blessed money. Like when I saw that, I felt they
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Speaker 3: heart and they connected with my heart, and I went
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Speaker 3: all in.
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Speaker 2: It was like, yo, if you believe in me, I
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Speaker 2: believe in me.
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Speaker 3: And so I put my head down, handled my business,
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Speaker 3: summer school, night school, caught up with my right grade,
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Speaker 3: graduate from high school on time, went to college, got
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Speaker 3: my bachelor's, got my master's degree because they believed in me.
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Speaker 3: So now I trained and speak and motivate teachers, and
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Speaker 3: I teach them to teach by faith and not by sight.
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Speaker 3: Because I had other teachers that looked at me in
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Speaker 3: stereotype me. But that third school, I came across the
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Speaker 3: group of teachers that chose to see the best.
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Speaker 1: And that's what you call environment. Absolutely, and so let's
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Speaker 1: talk about environment and mindset. And I like to be
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Speaker 1: able to keep just in the mindset of small business
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Speaker 1: owners who are surround generally shying about people who doubt there,
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Speaker 1: which could be your wife, it could be your freecher,
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Speaker 1: could be your coworkers. Because everybody has a stereotype of
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Speaker 1: who or what you are capable of achieving the life
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Speaker 1: based on what they are, right, And that's the environment, right,
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Speaker 1: how do you live in that same environment but adjust
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Speaker 1: the mindset in that environment to achieve your success well.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes sometimes you got to leave certain environments that
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Speaker 3: don't serve you well, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: And then sometimes there's also the environment of.
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Speaker 3: The mind because a lot of people say, go where
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Speaker 3: you celebrated, now we tolerated.
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Speaker 2: That's deep. I get it. I heard that twenty years ago.
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Speaker 3: But it's not always as easy to say I'm packing
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Speaker 3: up and I'm leaving this company, right, I'm packing up
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Speaker 3: and I'm leaving this marriage.
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Speaker 2: Like no, no, no, no, no, you are the common denominator.
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Speaker 3: You. When they interview Nelson Mandela and they was like,
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Speaker 3: how does it feel to be free? My man was like, actually,
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Speaker 3: I was already free when I was behind bars, you
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So sometimes the bars and shackles
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Speaker 3: we have in our lives, it's what's happening right here
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Speaker 3: instead of our brain. And so when we change the
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Speaker 3: environment of our minds, that can shift everything. And now,
14:56
Speaker 3: when we see ourselves better and we value ourselves more,
15:00
Speaker 3: you see the greatness of societies and now that energy,
15:02
Speaker 3: other people are attracted to that work that we see within,
15:06
Speaker 3: and then they change our outside environment as well.
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Speaker 2: And that's how.
15:09
Speaker 3: Folks can go through a whole other level. But it
15:11
Speaker 3: starts right here and right here, you know, I'll talk
15:14
Speaker 3: about habits on this show.
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Speaker 1: I tell people Monday through Friday, I get up at
15:17
Speaker 1: four thirty, and I also tell people I'm not happy
15:20
Speaker 1: getting up at four thirty.
15:21
Speaker 2: Come on.
15:22
Speaker 1: So it's a habit that works for me. And I'm
15:25
Speaker 1: not recommending that everybody gets, but you got to have
15:28
Speaker 1: an habit, and that habit, as you say, Jeremy, is
15:31
Speaker 1: non negotiable.
15:32
Speaker 2: Come on, And that's important that people.
15:34
Speaker 1: Understand that benefits aren't always feel good, right right right.
15:41
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Lebron will tell you right now he
15:44
Speaker 1: doesn't enjoy working out, Come on, but he knows the
15:46
Speaker 1: benefits of working out are non negotiable, absolutely, and that's
15:50
Speaker 1: why he's still at forty one putting up twenty five
15:53
Speaker 1: a game. Come on, Okay, so let's talk about the
15:55
Speaker 1: non negotiable that people try to negotiate in their path
16:00
Speaker 1: a journey to success.
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Speaker 3: Well, people want to take the easy road out and
16:04
Speaker 3: they and they want to be comfortable. So three times
16:07
Speaker 3: a week, I'm gonna go to the sauna after the gym,
16:09
Speaker 3: and then after about thirty minutes of the sauna, I'm
16:11
Speaker 3: gonna get that cold punch and that water.
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Speaker 2: Be cold, bro, you know what I'm saying.
16:16
Speaker 3: And I'm in Nah, it's like it's like really cold,
16:19
Speaker 3: it's like bone chilling cold, but it's mentally and not
16:22
Speaker 3: get in there, and I'm in there for anywhere from
16:24
Speaker 3: forty five minutes. You know what I'm saying, Because I'm
16:26
Speaker 3: trying to train and fix my brain to embrace this comfort.
16:30
Speaker 2: If not, I'm out here weak, bro.
16:31
Speaker 3: If not, I'm out here just going off of well,
16:33
Speaker 3: what makes me feel good and what makes me comfortable.
16:35
Speaker 3: And every soldier ain't never experience that. Anybody building, they
16:39
Speaker 3: endure pain. When you see someone with a whole bunch
16:42
Speaker 3: of muscles, that is symbolic of I.
16:43
Speaker 2: Went through a whole lot of pain. There's a lot
16:45
Speaker 2: of sacrifice.
16:46
Speaker 3: So I tell folks like, for me, that's my non
16:48
Speaker 3: negotiable for me and non negotiable. It's waking up early
16:51
Speaker 3: in the morning, like you four thirty five o'clock. Sometimes
16:54
Speaker 3: my friends laugh at me, I'm slipping till five third.
16:56
Speaker 3: They're like, slip in. But hey, that's a non negotiable.
17:00
Speaker 3: And then I'm not just up early and I'm cracking
17:02
Speaker 3: over that email. I'm seeking God. I'm having my time
17:04
Speaker 3: to pray, I'm having my time to meditate, I'm following
17:07
Speaker 3: up with people, I'm connecting with others like I'm having
17:09
Speaker 3: that time to make sure I'm grounded so I can
17:11
Speaker 3: be the best husband, so I can be the best father,
17:13
Speaker 3: so I can be the best author and CEO and
17:17
Speaker 3: coach and mentor to others. So I got to make
17:19
Speaker 3: sure that I'm routed and grounded and I'm in.
17:21
Speaker 2: The best place. So those are some of my non negotiables.
17:25
Speaker 3: And that's how I'm able to kind of guide myself
17:27
Speaker 3: throughout life.
17:28
Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting sometimes you have to there
17:32
Speaker 1: are two ways of being a professional, Like you go
17:34
Speaker 1: to the outlook that can tell you you can schedule
17:36
Speaker 1: your emails, and then you have to sometimes tell people
17:40
Speaker 1: who you are. And so I'll send out of emails.
17:42
Speaker 1: I wake up before a third they get emails five
17:44
Speaker 1: going out and they come back later, go, you really
17:46
Speaker 1: were up at five. That's establishing your brand. What is
17:50
Speaker 1: the Jeremy Anderson's brand. That's a good question, man. I
17:54
Speaker 1: would probably say perseverance in family.
17:57
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
17:57
Speaker 3: Half the time when I'm speaking, I'm talking about family
18:00
Speaker 3: things I've gone through. You know what I'm saying, because
18:02
Speaker 3: there has been no one that has grown me and
18:06
Speaker 3: broken my heart more than my wife. Ain't no other
18:09
Speaker 3: personal play on Earth has hurt me and helped me
18:12
Speaker 3: as much as she didn't hurt me intentionively.
18:14
Speaker 2: We were just two young, broken people trying to figure
18:16
Speaker 2: it out.
18:17
Speaker 3: So I made it to sixteen years in marriage because
18:19
Speaker 3: I embraced a lot of that pain. And so a
18:21
Speaker 3: lot of times on stage I talk about that because
18:23
Speaker 3: folks see.
18:23
Speaker 2: You making millions and they see successful on stage.
18:26
Speaker 3: It's like, but you ain't see me crying, and you
18:28
Speaker 3: didn't realize when I was depressed, and you didn't see
18:30
Speaker 3: me in my own personal counseling sessions, and you ain't
18:32
Speaker 3: seen me in my marriage coaching sessions, and you ain't
18:34
Speaker 3: see me trying to figure out how I'm a clear
18:35
Speaker 3: payroll for one of my other companies, like you didn't
18:37
Speaker 3: see to struggle.
18:38
Speaker 2: So a lot of times I'm on that.
18:40
Speaker 3: My brain is perseverance, and I would say my brand
18:43
Speaker 3: is family and everything I'm doing, I'm helping individuals go
18:47
Speaker 3: to the next level and I'm helping them experience next
18:49
Speaker 3: level living. But in order to do that, there is
18:51
Speaker 3: a certain amount of pain that you got to experience.
18:54
Speaker 3: But I really believe I'm accounted all joy. I really
18:57
Speaker 3: believe that these things is happening. Don't happen to me,
19:00
Speaker 3: They're happening for me. I really do believe the challenges
19:03
Speaker 3: and hardships are gonna work out for my good Like
19:05
Speaker 3: I don't just recite that. I really do believe that internally,
19:09
Speaker 3: and that is something that I'm constantly pursuing. So I'm
19:11
Speaker 3: letting folks know it's not gonna be easy. Guess what
19:13
Speaker 3: a public service announcement. The world not gonna give you
19:15
Speaker 3: what you deserve. The world gonna give you what you
19:17
Speaker 3: work for. You got to show up every single day
19:20
Speaker 3: and work for You know what I'm saying, an nobody
19:21
Speaker 3: give me nothing but an opportunity. You know what, I'm saying,
19:24
Speaker 3: and so you got to show up and work for
19:25
Speaker 3: So my brand is work. It's great, it's perseverance, but
19:28
Speaker 3: it's also family, you know what I'm saying.
19:30
Speaker 2: Because it's one thing for me to win the Win
19:32
Speaker 2: of the Year award.
19:32
Speaker 3: But for my wife to sit back and be like, yep,
19:34
Speaker 3: but he's the man of my life. That's what hits
19:37
Speaker 3: because they could have gave me the Man of the
19:38
Speaker 3: Year ward and my wife.
19:39
Speaker 2: Be like this, I can't stay hear me right, all
19:42
Speaker 2: crazy to me at home.
19:42
Speaker 3: But the fact that what the world sees is what
19:44
Speaker 3: people see behind doors, that's the real victory for me.
19:48
Speaker 2: And so I will say that that's what my brand
19:50
Speaker 2: looks like.
19:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, really interesting, Thank you for coming on my show.
19:53
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Jerry Andrews and found in the Next
19:56
Speaker 1: Level Speakers Academy and that's nonprofit Next Level Living. My wife,
20:04
Speaker 1: she's an aptometrist and a different level of discipline.
20:08
Speaker 3: You know.
20:08
Speaker 2: I get about the bed. She's still in bed and
20:11
Speaker 2: we laugh about that.
20:12
Speaker 1: And I was about the staffor heard this story and
20:14
Speaker 1: she says she was driving me to work. It was
20:17
Speaker 1: like early flight six am, so it was on the
20:19
Speaker 1: road like four point thirty to get the airport.
20:22
Speaker 2: And she looked at me.
20:23
Speaker 1: I was driving and she was sitting over there in
20:25
Speaker 1: the passage seat, and she said, when are you tired?
20:29
Speaker 1: And I looked at it and I said, I'm tired
20:31
Speaker 1: right now, come on, come on, And so it goes
20:35
Speaker 1: to habits, you know, and perseverance overcoming their odds. Talk
20:41
Speaker 1: to my listeners about excuses, because we can tell people
20:47
Speaker 1: how we feel, whether it's good or bad, but they
20:51
Speaker 1: really want to hear, especially when they deem you being successful, right,
20:54
Speaker 1: talk about excuses.
20:56
Speaker 2: So excuses is.
20:57
Speaker 3: Something I feel like every human struggles with because there's
21:00
Speaker 3: a difference between making an excuse versus explaining where you
21:04
Speaker 3: are and what you got going on. And so everybody's
21:06
Speaker 3: going to have a certain level of challenges and situations.
21:10
Speaker 3: But what are you going to do about it? And
21:12
Speaker 3: so for me, I try not to make excuses. I
21:14
Speaker 3: try to take extreme ownership. So in every single situation,
21:17
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, that was my fault? What
21:18
Speaker 3: could I have done differently? Yes, this went wrong and
21:21
Speaker 3: she dropped the ball here, but really, ultimately, if I'm involved,
21:24
Speaker 3: it's probably something different I could have did.
21:26
Speaker 2: So I try to get rid of excuses.
21:28
Speaker 3: And I actually my team knows running joke across all
21:31
Speaker 3: of our companies. They know that one thing that really
21:33
Speaker 3: takes me off is excuses. I'm like, just take ownership.
21:37
Speaker 3: But when I start breaking out in the hives and
21:38
Speaker 3: I start hearing excuses, and folks is like, well if
21:41
Speaker 3: this would have happened and that happened, well when I'm like,
21:43
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear no excuses. Just admit you
21:45
Speaker 3: dropped the ball. Just admit you make mistakes, Just admit
21:48
Speaker 3: that you're human. I have so much respect for that.
21:50
Speaker 3: So I'm by yo, miss me with the excuses, because
21:52
Speaker 3: I ain't never met nobody that become great from excuses.
21:55
Speaker 3: And you can reach way more accomplishments and way more
21:57
Speaker 3: success with criticism than you will with praise and adoration.
22:01
Speaker 3: And so I tell folks like, now, embrace it. You
22:03
Speaker 3: made a mistake, you dropped the ball, you screw it up,
22:05
Speaker 3: but it's okay. But don't give me a whole bunch
22:07
Speaker 3: of excuses. Tell me what you learn, what you'll do
22:10
Speaker 3: differently next time, And that's how you're going to start
22:12
Speaker 3: embrace the next level living.
22:14
Speaker 2: Next level living, let's talk about that.
22:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, because before I want to make sure go to
22:21
Speaker 1: your website.
22:23
Speaker 3: Yep, Jeremy Anderson dot org.
22:26
Speaker 2: Now is next Level Academy around the next level speaking
22:29
Speaker 2: academy is separate.
22:30
Speaker 1: So let's talk about because you speaking, I want to
22:34
Speaker 1: also drive them to that website.
22:36
Speaker 2: Talk about that, right, Yeah.
22:37
Speaker 3: So we have the myself and doctor Eric Thomas d
22:40
Speaker 3: T to Hip Hop preacher number one motivation speaking of
22:42
Speaker 3: what I mean this brother charging one hundred and fifty
22:44
Speaker 3: thousand dollars every time.
22:45
Speaker 2: You take the stage. Right.
22:46
Speaker 3: So, doctor Eric Thomas and myself came together years ago
22:50
Speaker 3: and we created the number one professional speaking program in
22:53
Speaker 3: the world. Like we've got an online course community, three
22:56
Speaker 3: different courses, weekly coaching calls, speech practice calls, like everything
23:00
Speaker 3: you need from A to Z on how to become
23:02
Speaker 3: a successful communicator. Some people want to be motivational speakers,
23:07
Speaker 3: some want to be educational consultants. Some want to do
23:09
Speaker 3: professional development workshops, some want to do ted talks. Like
23:13
Speaker 3: we literallycover every aspect corporate, faith based men and women, empowerment,
23:17
Speaker 3: recover every aspect of our speakers community. And we've got
23:21
Speaker 3: thousands of members across the country, a dozen different thriving
23:25
Speaker 3: chapters in major cities, and we're literally helping people quit
23:29
Speaker 3: their jobs for those who want to quit. Some people
23:31
Speaker 3: love their career, they just want to speak part time
23:34
Speaker 3: supplement and supplement their income.
23:35
Speaker 2: But I think it's so crazy when I meet somebody that's.
23:38
Speaker 3: Like, I love my job as a dentist or a teacher,
23:41
Speaker 3: or I actually love what I do in construction, but
23:43
Speaker 3: I made an extra eighty six thousand dollars speaking part time.
23:46
Speaker 2: I get so excited when people are like, man.
23:48
Speaker 3: I got my first ten thousand dollars check, and it
23:50
Speaker 3: blows my mind their minds. I love it when people say, man,
23:53
Speaker 3: I'm a six and I'm a seven figure. We got
23:55
Speaker 3: several seven figure speakers now, and these are all people
23:59
Speaker 3: with pure They would have took the stage and speak
24:01
Speaker 3: for free.
24:02
Speaker 2: They've been doing it for free.
24:03
Speaker 3: But we show them how to monetize their message, how
24:06
Speaker 3: to brand themselves and really take themselves to market. So
24:09
Speaker 3: I am so proud of it because when I'm seeing
24:11
Speaker 3: what it's doing for our community and people across the globe,
24:13
Speaker 3: it's truly something special. So I tell people go to
24:16
Speaker 3: Next Level Speakers Academy dot com to learn everything that
24:20
Speaker 3: we've been doing in this space, and man, we're helping
24:24
Speaker 3: people literally change the world. Because it's one thing for
24:26
Speaker 3: me and Et and Ikey Johnson to be successful speakers,
24:30
Speaker 3: but now if I can help thousands of other people
24:32
Speaker 3: become successful speakers, how much more good are we doing
24:35
Speaker 3: out here in the world. It's like that multiply effect.
24:38
Speaker 3: And so it's somewhere really proud of.
24:40
Speaker 1: You know, the beauty of because I went to one
24:42
Speaker 1: of y'all speaking engagements back in twenty seventeen. Okay, well
24:46
Speaker 1: that's why I first saw you on State. Okay, and
24:49
Speaker 1: actually we didn't meet. I just saw you on States
24:51
Speaker 1: backstage talking to DoD Thomas. But the audience makeup was very,
24:59
Speaker 1: very white, Hispanic black, and one would automatically think, Okay,
25:04
Speaker 1: he's a black guy, it's gonna be a black audience.
25:06
Speaker 2: That's not true. Yeah, yeah, so ET's brand.
25:11
Speaker 3: I would say that our community, our speakers academy community
25:14
Speaker 3: now is about seventy five percent African American. But that's
25:18
Speaker 3: probably the State Ready conference that we did in twenty seventeen,
25:21
Speaker 3: and so that was a nice mixture of people that
25:24
Speaker 3: came in from all over the country and even abroad
25:27
Speaker 3: that want to be motivational speakers or they want to
25:31
Speaker 3: just be motivated. They wanted to go to that next level.
25:33
Speaker 3: They wanted to be able to stay ready so they
25:35
Speaker 3: ain't got to get ready.
25:36
Speaker 2: So on what we.
25:37
Speaker 3: Found outside of race, outside of political parties, man, outside
25:41
Speaker 3: of the different things that divide us, there's way more
25:44
Speaker 3: than unites us. And what we have found is that
25:46
Speaker 3: people are looking for something real. People will look for
25:49
Speaker 3: something raw. People want to live a life a purpose.
25:51
Speaker 3: People don't want to have their livelihood only connected to
25:56
Speaker 3: the government and what can happen there life. They want
25:58
Speaker 3: to be free, you know, and they don't want to
26:00
Speaker 3: be in that position where they're not living to their
26:03
Speaker 3: full potential. And so people tend to tap in with
26:05
Speaker 3: us when they're ready.
26:06
Speaker 2: Truty to go to that next level.
26:08
Speaker 1: Like Alex Bradman, third baseman for US National, he's a
26:11
Speaker 1: big fan. Yeah, Eric Tumber I remember reading the article
26:13
Speaker 1: and he said he listens to Eric Thomas motivation. Yeah, okay,
26:17
Speaker 1: his brother captures everywhere every one of the disciples. Yeah,
26:21
Speaker 1: of that platform, and now you're changing world, but not
26:24
Speaker 1: only do your speaking, but do your next level living.
26:27
Speaker 2: Yeah. South Africa, Yeah, why South Africa so I went there.
26:32
Speaker 3: My first time in South Africa was twenty sixteen, and
26:35
Speaker 3: I met some individuals there man and it was a
26:37
Speaker 3: great experience.
26:38
Speaker 2: I was in Johannahsburg, Okayburg.
26:40
Speaker 3: And then a few months some people there was like
26:43
Speaker 3: you were too powerful.
26:44
Speaker 2: We need you to come to Cape Town. I was like,
26:46
Speaker 2: where's Cape Town? There was like what is this stuff
26:48
Speaker 2: out here? Because now we gotta talk about stereotypes. Okay, okay,
26:51
Speaker 2: because you talking.
26:53
Speaker 1: About you've been sold a brand in America or what
26:56
Speaker 1: Africa is?
26:56
Speaker 2: Right? So going over there, there's a lot of ert.
27:00
Speaker 3: I pulled up at the mass Low Hotel and said,
27:03
Speaker 3: I've seen a Bentley, I seen the Maserati, I've seen
27:06
Speaker 3: a Porsch truck. And then I saw Ferrari and I'm thinking,
27:10
Speaker 3: like where the naked fulk playing drums there? And I
27:14
Speaker 3: walk in the mass Low Hotel and I'm like, this
27:16
Speaker 3: is one of the nicest hotel.
27:17
Speaker 2: They took me to my suite. I was like, what
27:19
Speaker 2: in the world. I couldnot wait to get back to
27:21
Speaker 2: the States. Right, they say, this ain't what you thought
27:23
Speaker 2: it was. It's sad. It's sad.
27:25
Speaker 1: We have to deliver that message because when you laying
27:29
Speaker 1: nothing but beautiful black woman billboards of every artist that
27:33
Speaker 1: you will see, you know, John Legend or Kevin the
27:37
Speaker 1: Hard or whoever is those major start you see on
27:40
Speaker 1: their billboards. You know, it's a major shift and it's
27:45
Speaker 1: a major insult. Yes to what the story they tell
27:48
Speaker 1: you about Africa. That is really working and succeeding in Africa.
27:54
Speaker 1: That's the major thing that I was so disappointed, Yeah, myself,
27:59
Speaker 1: And so.
27:59
Speaker 3: Now now I found myself an African. I'm letting folks know, like,
28:03
Speaker 3: Africa is beautiful. My wife, let me tell you something.
28:05
Speaker 3: She loves so much. She want to spend six months
28:07
Speaker 3: now in South Africa. And e t talking about you
28:09
Speaker 3: need to make it happen. I'm like, you don't just
28:12
Speaker 3: do that. Overnight that plane ride, I fell in love
28:16
Speaker 3: with Durban Africa, and man, I'm.
28:19
Speaker 2: Looking at houses that plane ride though, Brother, But you
28:23
Speaker 2: change your mind.
28:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then you get used to that del to
28:26
Speaker 3: one and then you go sleep and you wake number
28:28
Speaker 3: you're there.
28:29
Speaker 2: But it is a beautiful place.
28:31
Speaker 3: And after Joe Burgh, about three months later, they brought
28:35
Speaker 3: me into Cape Town, which is on the coast, which is,
28:37
Speaker 3: as you know, beautiful.
28:39
Speaker 2: On that water.
28:40
Speaker 3: And then about four months later they brought me back
28:42
Speaker 3: to Cape Town. Well by my third time in South Africa.
28:44
Speaker 3: My handlers and people who brought me in, you know,
28:47
Speaker 3: I'm staying at nice hotels. I was like, man, show
28:50
Speaker 3: me the city. And they showed me where they grew up.
28:52
Speaker 3: And I saw the hood. Now, you know here in
28:54
Speaker 3: the States we have the half and half nots. It's
28:57
Speaker 3: different there. They're half notz is, third floors, no electricity.
29:02
Speaker 2: Ten walls.
29:03
Speaker 3: They might not you know, they eat every other day,
29:06
Speaker 3: one meal. So when I saw the babies and I
29:09
Speaker 3: saw the kids, it's like it pricked my heart. And
29:12
Speaker 3: so we began to like tie to an organization there
29:16
Speaker 3: and some folks there, and it was like, man, we
29:18
Speaker 3: want to send a couple thousand dollars, you know, send
29:20
Speaker 3: a month to just feed some of these kids. Because
29:23
Speaker 3: I was showing them how to do community outreach and
29:25
Speaker 3: I was showing them how to be a blessing. And
29:27
Speaker 3: so we started to feed my Sheep program. And so
29:30
Speaker 3: they was out there feeding the kids. And when I
29:32
Speaker 3: saw how consistent they were for about a year and
29:34
Speaker 3: a half. In twenty eighteen, we set up our official
29:37
Speaker 3: nonprofit organization and since twenty eighteen, we've been feeding one
29:40
Speaker 3: thousand starving children every single week. They're in Cape Town,
29:44
Speaker 3: South Africa, across a number of communities.
29:47
Speaker 2: And in twenty twenty we started our college sponsorship.
29:50
Speaker 3: Program and since twenty twenty we put sixty kids through college.
29:54
Speaker 2: There beautiful. Now that's a Shepherd website.
29:57
Speaker 3: Yeah now that is yeah, yeah, now that is Next
29:59
Speaker 3: Level Living Inc.
30:00
Speaker 2: Dot org.
30:02
Speaker 3: And I'm just gonna say this, out of all the websites,
30:06
Speaker 3: if somebody is like, man, I want to book Jeremy
30:08
Speaker 3: to come in and speak for my company in my
30:09
Speaker 3: school like Jeremy and it is in the orgor and man,
30:11
Speaker 3: I want to have Jeremy, you know, coach me and
30:13
Speaker 3: joining the speaker as Academy Next Level Speaks Academy dot com.
30:16
Speaker 3: But don't nothing get me more excited than when people say, man,
30:20
Speaker 3: I want to be a part of this pienthropic work
30:23
Speaker 3: because as a now, you know, doctor Maxine came right
30:25
Speaker 3: who blessed both of us with the Man of the
30:27
Speaker 3: Year war.
30:28
Speaker 2: Let me tell you why I love her, dearly bro.
30:30
Speaker 3: When she saw that me and Tracy was carrying our
30:33
Speaker 3: foundation ourselves financially, When she saw that ninety percent of
30:37
Speaker 3: it was coming from us.
30:38
Speaker 2: When she saw we ain't have no corporate sponsors like,
30:41
Speaker 2: she was troubled.
30:42
Speaker 3: She was like, you should not have to do this
30:44
Speaker 3: by yourself. And I'm like, yo, this is what I
30:46
Speaker 3: was God told me to do, Like I'm just gonna
30:47
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