Club Shay Shay - Club Shay Shay - Dr. Cheyenne Bryant Part 1

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

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I be grinding on my life. Hello. episode of Club Chechay. I am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the proud of Club Shet Shay. Stopping about for conversation on the drink today is a revered voice in popular media and academic circles. She's dedicated into two decades to transforming lives. A renowned life coach, a spiritual mentor, a psychology expert, a community activist, a motivational speaker, a culture change maker, influential brand ambassador, a producer, an author, and a host. Here she is, ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Shianne. You know, that was good. That was good. Did we do you justice?

Good. I like that. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate you for stopping by Club Shayshay. It's an honor. It's an honor to have you here. Yeah, it's an honor to be here. You know, I watch your show, obviously. Thank you.

I think you are a genius of what I just told you off camera, right? Yes. How you, you know, pose your questions. It ain't messy, but it's creative. Thank you. And it's wordplay, and I like it. So I'm excited to be here and be able to provide my expertise to your viewers. But you're good today.

You have a good space. I am so good. My book launched today. Dead. Literally, today that we're filming at least. Yes, my book Mental Detox launched today. I got a double book deal. Shout out to 50 cent, Curtis Jackson, for taking the lead on that with Random House,

which is the biggest publishing company in the world. Wow. And so if he believed in me, and he took the lead. And they said, well, we believe in her too. We love her. And so here I am with two book deals. My first book Mental Detox launches today. And then my second book March is in 2026 launches.

So I'm excited. I'm a happy camper. You would like to toast this to the great congratulations. Two Book Deal. Mental Detox. Just launched, and another book coming in 2026. Congratulations on all your success. Thank you, thank you.

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We're going to be tame, we're going to be tame the first, the first hour. No? Now, you ain't going to tell me what to do that. Okay, okay. My bad. My bad. Let's go back. Let's start where it began.

Yeah. You're a native Los Angeles. I am. As a kid, what was, what was, what was you like as a child? It was Cheyenne like as a child? Yes, what was Cheyenne like a child? I was always feisty and strong. Always an overthinker, a problem.

I was naturally an analyst. I've always been the leader amongst my friend group who are also leaders. You know, I don't have followers in my group. Everybody's lead. Everyone leads. I love that. We're all strong and we all are so solid and vertical within ourselves that we don't need followers. Right. We solid with the leadership. I was a product of teenage parents. My parents were 16 when they had me. They were high school sweetheart and they planned me. And so I wasn't a product of, yeah, of an oopsie. They said, Hey, walking home from school one day, a true story. My father brags about it all the time. He says, baby, you were made from love. And he says they were walking home, and they planned me, and they can only afford a motel. And they wouldn't have paid for a motel. And they conceived me. Yeah, I was born.

Conceived in a motel, y'all, okay? In a motel. And then, you know, and then here I go. And so my grandparents stepped in and raised me because my parents are obviously teenage parents that didn't understand that, you know, you have to raise a child after birth a child. Because they were, they were basically kids themselves trying to raise a kid. Nobody had to, look, there's really no guide to how to, you know, be a parent.

I mean, everybody thinks they had to figure it out. But at 16, we're kids trying to figure out our life, and now we brought another life into the mix. There you go. And so, I mean, it's like you're growing up beside, like, your parents are like 20. You're a four or five-year-old. And you're like, is that your sister? Is that your brother? And so we grew up together.

Yes. We grew up together. And what was that like? It was actually, you know, it was amazing. My father, he ended up being one of the biggest gangster and dope dealers in the South Bay area. And, you know, moving away to the East Coast, Ohio, being one of them, Youngstown. And I could tell it now because there's no longer going on. But he transitioned from being one of the biggest dope dealers into being one of the biggest entrepreneurs

and a long Sherman here in Los Angeles, which is working for the port for 20 years. And I got to see him go from the hood to the hills. And it was really beautiful seeing that, I mean, Shannon, we would come home days when he was in his gangster era. And I couldn't have a key to the house. I couldn't be there alone. And he would have to go in the house with a pistol first and check everything to make sure we can go in. I had the password to the safe that was in the garage and so that if anybody came in, give them everything. You know, don't let them hold you hostage or doing that.

So I grew up a product of a street guy, a straight gangster who didn't play about me, who if I made a phone call, he was going to air it out. And that was a luxury for me And so I was on Sway's radio one time And he said, you know, Doc, you talk about your upbringing and your father And being the little girl from the inner city As though it was like an honor You don't talk about it in a way that's like, you know, I came from the hood And it was all this this adversity, it was adversity

But I'm a proud little girl from the hood And I'm a proud product of a father who was a street daddy I'm a proud product of a mother who, you know, also was in the streets with him And if it wasn't for me, being a product of them, I wouldn't know how to create the piece and the tools that I have now to provide to my clients, to your viewers, to everyone else who follows me, because I wouldn't have had to bear crawl to understand how to get out this thing called the inner city. And I always say it wasn't me knowing where I was going. It was me knowing that I had to get the hell of out of there. And oftentimes, I think of all ages, people get stuck in, I don't know where I'm going.

What's my purpose? All you really need to know, Shannon, is that I don't want to fucking be here. I don't want to be here. And that day that I realized that I put my track shoes on, even though people see heels every day now, and my track shoes is still on. I'm never taking them off. And I ran as far as I could. I ran into six degrees, three doctorates, a master's degree, a house at 19, my first home, a daycare at 19, three retail stores on Merrill. Well, damn, you were the professional student. I ran. But I was a professional student for a long time and entrepreneur. But I really want people to know, and I know we're early on the interview, but I want people to know who are watching that you do not have to know where you. you are going. You just have to know you want to get the hell up out of whatever you're in, whether it's a relationship, a circumstance, an environment, just go. And when you start to trust God, he does something really special, which is ordering your steps. And as he orders your

steps and you stay vertical on who you are and you lean on him and all your understanding, you nest in that word and you call him out on his principles that are in the Bible that he promises you, I'm telling you, God shows up and he shows out. And he does give you back the time that the locus and the canker worms took from you. He really does give that back you. So I want folks watching this to know that, listen, I was just a little girl in the hood. And I promise you, there was nothing around me. Not to put the people down around me. There was nothing in my environment that I looked in and said, I want to be. There was everything in my environment that said, hell no, hell no, and hell no. And those hell noes got me to all my

yeses. So I just want people to know that early on because people look at me or use and they're like, you know, they're way over there. I'm not way over there for people. Right. I'm still touchable. I'm still that little girl in the hood. I just happened to grow up and make different decisions now. Right. But I'm still her. And I never, ever will not claim her. I never will not allow her to show up in a conversation

and not allow her to be in her abandonment sometimes. And I will always make sure she knows you can feel that way as a little girl. The woman in me, I have your back. And I'll knock everything off this table for you every time. That's what self-love is. And I want people, men and women, to know that, especially within our community, because it's important that they see our wounds,

not just the healed Dr. Bryant, because that's not where it started. So you made a conscious decision that I'm not going to be a product of my environment and I'm not going to be my circumstances in which I'm currently in. You made that decision at a very, very young age that, you know what? Yes, this is my environment. I don't really see anybody that I aspire to be like. So let me get the hell out of here and find some people that I do aspire to be like. There you go.

And I'm the oldest of seven. Oh, so that's what. And I'm the first grandchild. So there was nobody ahead of me, Shannon, to say this is the blueprint. It was just folks around me to show me what not to do. And I say this about a lot of folks who are PCs, pastor kids, right? Or they got parents who've been married 30, 40 years, and the marriage is rocking and rolling. Oftentimes, those kids are robbed of seeing all of the fake perfection and not seeing what not to do.

So they usually come out that household and they're extremely rebellious and they end up doing the total opposite of what their parents did. And I say this, you know, because I love Cam. Me and Cam, we are great friends. Cam has thanked me for a lot of. of the impact, positive impact I've had on him. Cam Newton or Cam Newton? Okay, okay. Cam Newton.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Can you say Cam, okay. Cam Newton, let's clear it up. Cam Newton. But I say, and I want to say Cam is a perfect example of what I just described. He is a pastor's child.

Yes. His parents are still married. Yes. He comes from good stock. Yes. And we're not saying that Cam ain't good stock, but his decisions are not good stock. So just want to show people the example of what I'm referring to, then you get a little girl like me from the inner city.

And parents are teenage parents, we got a lot of trauma and different drug dealing and drug addiction and things going on and trauma in the house and I had the luxury of seeing what not to do. And I just knew if I did the opposite, it had to be better than that. And it ended up being way better than that. Now it makes sense to

me why your dad was so in that. You're the oldest, you're the old, you're the girl. You're the older, you're the daddy's girl. Daddy's girl. It makes perfect sense now because you adore. I'm just listening at you talking in the first 10 minutes. Your dad is your world. You adore it. I adore him. And we're going to

get into this because it, I mean, it's, I mean, all these advanced degrees that you have, were you a good, were you, you were good in school? I was good in school, but I was, I was, uh, I was very, um, very, you got me. Oh, no, there you go. You were very good in school, but I was very like, you're not going to talk to me anyway. You're not going to disrespect me. And one thing my parents did, and I say my parents are my mother and father, Kim and

Darren and my grandparents, Mariah and Bailey, because all four of them was a village that raised me. One thing, not one of the many things they did amazing was they raised a little girl with a lot of self-love and a hell of a backbone. I'm very vertical. And so I stand very strong on respect and on boundaries. That wasn't something I was lacking. But when those boundaries were crossed, when it came to, you know, K-Thru-Tel academia was amazing. But I was one that I got kicked out of L.A. Unified School District, and I had to go.

What you do? What you do? I was just not going to tolerate no BS. Yes. And so if that meant that I had to strong arm or use muscle, whether it would be verbally or physical, then I was going to make sure that they understood that this is a tree you don't bark up. Looking like this? Because normally when we came up, women like that had this complication like this. What do we do? They were like, I'm not going to even entertain this. Oh, oh. So listen.

I think I brought the entertainment, the production, the cameras, and I edited it just the way I wanted to be edited. Yes. You brought that light dot? But also, you have to remember that I was a little girl who had the privilege of being able to make one phone call. Oh, they were scared. You see, you have them scared of your dad. So, but I had that muscle, too, and I got to give my father and my family props because we were the family that would, you know, they would pull up and they would be very, very protective over me. My father has done many things that has protected me.

He's ran into clubs. He's done a lot of things on behalf of me alongside my grandmother, my mother. They're a very protective family. You're going to never get me a man. Well, listen, my father passed away two years ago. Okay, I'm sorry. No. I'm sorry to hear that.

No. That's okay. So being that, I might get a man. You might get one now. Because to your point, he used to be like, ain't nobody coming around, and he used to say, and he gave me a ring when I was a teenager. Funny, you said that. And it was like his pinky ring, which is a big ring with a lot of diamonds and say,

put this on your finger until a man gives you a ring. Don't take it off. Well, I've had two rings. but he also wasn't too fond of me being married because he would say, baby, you know, successful women don't have to get married. I'm like, Daddy, no, I want to be a mother and a wife. Right.

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Wow, I love that you said that. You're so on point. He went and put out a flute on the street and said, if anyone sells to her, then... Got to deal with me. Got to deal with me. And after he's seen that he couldn't control or take everybody out, right? At some point, from what he told me, he had to put his hands up. And he had to just let, you know, life take its form.

And the beautiful thing is that at some point before he passed away, thank God, my mother ended up being, she got some health conditions that handicapped her where she couldn't pick her arms up and she couldn't even move her walk and it was in her addiction. And I remember her calling me saying, baby, I can't lift my hands. And I'm like, huh? And so we spent years of having her go to different specialists and seeing what they can do and finally my good friend, Dr. Aromo Ersno, Ersno, he said she needs surgery or this is, She has a disgenerated disc disease.

It's never going to get better. So anyway, she had surgery. When I tell you that God, God keeps his promises, and he does hear your prayers. And the funny thing is, Shannon, all my life I prayed for her to be off drugs, to be off drugs, be off drugs. When I finally told God, you know what, I no longer can pray that because it's starting to consume me. I'm going to let you have her. Now, I'm going to pay bills, and I'm going to feed her. So I'm going to always take care of my mother.

But as far as her trajectory of her life, I got a hands off. That's in your hands. Hands off. That's when her health condition came upon her. And he broke her down to where she couldn't even move. And after her surgery, she came home, and it was just her and I. And she had a bag that she had to use the bathroom in. She couldn't get up.

I mean, nothing. It was an eight-hour surgery. And they removed all of her discs. It was just so intense. She ain't touched a drug ever since then. She is now the vice president of my company. She has her own health care company where she helps people who are disabled like herself. That is her company.

her business that she started, she cooks and cleans and runs my entire household. I bought the house. She makes it a home. And so when I tell you, again, that God would give you back the time that the locusts and the cake and worms took, I am not playing. But the key to him doing that is your obedience to him. And the Bible says it's better to be obedient than sacrifice. And I was obedient to his word.

And I never wavered and well-doing even with the adversity that was going on, with my mom being on that. And when I turned her over to him, God showed me the power of surrender. And from that day, my mom has been sober. She has been the best mother that me and my brother can never ask for. She does everything she's never done as a child. And to this day, it is, I still look at her sometimes across the room. I'm like, she is really like sober and a mom.

Wow. And it's natural, and she's doing this and we're here. And, you know, that's something that when someone was an addiction for 20, 25 years... It's long. That's hard having to break. You don't break it. They usually die at the hands of that substance. So just always wanting to give God that glory.

But, again, I want people to know that God's promises are always sitting right there available for you. And I'm telling you what breaks that promise open is our obedience and our trust and our faith in him. That's all we need. He don't ask for much. And faith isn't something that we know. faith is an action word, belief is an action word. It is keeping your commitment to God, doing what you said you would do, even when you don't feel like it. Also saying, God, and this is my affirmation to this day, I said, God, I don't know what's going on, but I know that I trust you.

As long as I can trust you, I can nest in you, then I know that I'm good. And so I show up to whatever GPS God gives me, and I say, but I showed up. And when I tell you, he always does everything in the perfect position and in the perfect alignment when you just show up. See, people think they got to know everything. If I know everything or if I don't know everything, I should say, then I can't show. If I don't know how to do it. But what does God say that I am? But if you know everything, that's not faith.

And it's not God. And faith is believing in the unknown. You're going to take this leap and know that everything's going to be okay. And faith is a spirit thing. It's not an ego thing. Faith is, I know like I know like I know. It's not I think. And it's also you saying that I understand that if God is closer than my breath, then he can't be outside of me.

So that's why he says, I never leave you or forsake you because he can't. And I want to wrap on this. He also says, if you make your bed in hell, there I am. That means that God allows you to have your free will because he loves you. But if your free will happens to be in hell, he's not going to stop you, but he'll be in there with you. Which means all you got to do is tap him because he's there. Ask. And then here shift you.

But how many of us are not willing to shift? Because we get so stuck in the dysfunction that we know, the dysfunctional relationships, the dysfunctional parties, the dysfunctional part of ourselves that we know, that the shift becomes so scary, that the better is something that is uncertain, so we don't go to the better. We stay with what we know. And God says, well, I'll stay with you. But the Bible says, what reports will you believe? Will you believe the reports of your dysfunction, your trauma, you're not good enough, you're not qualified, that you are the things you've been through, you are the things that you see in your environment, or will you believe the reports that I told you, that I'm the big dog, I'm the alpha, the omega,

I'm omnipresent, that I know the plans I have for you when I formed you in the belly. And then plans were to prosper you, give you a good life, not to harm you. So whenever you are in harm, you're not in what? My plans. So how do you know when you're not in God's alignment? Is when it's you in harm, when it's not prosperous. Because he also says think only on these thoughts that are prosperous, positive, and praiseworthy. The reason why he tells you that is because as a man thinking, so be it.

Come on, baby. So he's telling you what to think. So when you think on those thoughts, hold on. So are you. So the man that says he is and the man that says he is not or what? Both right. So God said, what reports will you believe? And I love you so much.

I'll let you believe them. And even if you believe yourself in hell, I'm a ride with you in there. Listen, there ain't a human that can ride like that. And this is why I tell people I'm not here to be liked. I got a purpose. And my obedience is to God, not to y'all. Because as long as I'm obedient to God, we're riding in his will. But the moment that I fall prey to dogma or being obedient to your thoughts or what you think or what you need, now I'm in your will.

And the only thing that had Peter, who was walking on water to Jesus, depart and fall, was because he took his eyes off the wheel. And really quick, I've got to say this because Peter called Jesus out. How many of us call God out? I'm asking for this. If it's really you, God, show up. Peter said, Jesus, if it's you and you real, call on me. to walk on this water. Jesus said, I'm that dude, what's up?

Peter got off his boat, walked on water. And Jesus said, all you got to do is keep your eyes on me because I'm the one you called. I'm the one that's blessed in you. He looked down. He looked down, but you know why he looked down? Because a storm came.

A storm. How many of us have been in storms that have us lose our faith, lose our walk, lose our goal, lose our focus? Because of a storm. You know why? Because most of the time, that's the only time we really call on God is when we're in trouble. Like when we're prosperous, we're ascending to the top. We don't need it. We need it. When, ah, dang, lost my job. I lost this. I didn't get this promotion.

Things happened in my life. I'll call on him now. But when things was going good, you thought it was all you. You didn't know he was right there with you the whole while. He'd been riding. Well, you was riding shotgun. He was driving. But you didn't realize that. And when you called on him, like Peter called on Jesus, when the storm came again, why did you take your eyes off of who already saved you from the last storm and the last storm and the last storm? This is why I say the only person I have to focus on is my God. The only person I'm obedient to is my God. It don't matter who don't like me.

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Oh, you didn't did your homework, baby. With that being said, and we know how you view your dad, when you found that that you had other siblings, how did that make you feel? I love that. So when my father went to have my first little sister. Okay. Ginger, I said, and I was only 10, and I said, Dad, why would you have another child?

And I said, it better not be a girl. Uh-oh. Yeah. And he said, well, baby, it's a girl. It's a girl. And things happen, right? Because I'm 10. And I said, well, I don't like her.

I'm not happy. You ain't even met her yet. And I won't be her sister. At 10 years old. Yeah. My little sister, Ginger, came out to love and worship the ground. I walk on. And it took me, and this is something that I just have to be transparent, it took me until I was early 20s to have a sit down with my sister Ginger, who is my baby now, and say, I'm sorry.

I didn't accept you. It had nothing to do with you, but I love you. You're my sister. I rock with you, you minds. And so from my father, it was an issue, but what saved him in me was he kept having kids. So what I realized was, you know, anyone can replace the baby. You just got to have another baby. But guess what person can never be replaced?

You can never have another firstborn. Nope. Ever. So when God told me, listen, I put you in the firstborn order. So you ain't got to worry about being replaced. Whoever's next got to worry about being replaced. I said, you know what? I'm good with that.

And my father and I, not that he doesn't love all of his kids, They know he does, but they also know I grew up with him. I grew up in his Gangsta era. I grew up in his dope Dylan era. I watched him transition from being bullhead in the streets to being daring, the family working man. And he always tells me no one else got that opportunity. You know, I witnessed him, you know, being shot.

I witnessed him just so much. And it's like I had the opportunity to see in the transition that they didn't get. And not that, you know, they were robbed because it was tough times. They actually probably had a luxury of not seeing it, but it gave me a different uff in me that we all have, but that makes me the most like my father. And, yeah, we have a special bond. We really adore each other, and he dotes on me. He would tell me you're the Colby Bryant, you're the Michael Jordan of the women. And, you know, to all the fathers out there, that is so important.

Yes. If you have daughters, you know, a woman is where her daddy makes her straight up, especially when it comes to men. She can easily be manipulated if you're a man who doesn't input the things in her that allow her to see red flags. My father would have real one-on-one conversations with me. He talked to me like his baby, but he also would say, you know, do X, Y, and Z. And I like that because he talked to me straight up. Right. And he would explain to me that, you know, men use money to run power like this, or men may say these things that mean this.

And so I had this open relationship where I would be able to have to playbook. I had the playbook. And I can come to him and say, Dad, you know, this is what's happening in my relationship. What does this mean? Even if it was sexual now, if it was sexual, he loved Jack and Coke. He said, baby, let me get my Jack and my Coke before we have that conversation. But he was very open to those conversations. But I want men to know that a woman is what her daddy makes her.

And so it is your responsibility to build that woman up so that when she's out there, she has a realistic expectation of a man. Not a fairytale ideology, because I ended up to you, which you said earlier, about, you know, you're never going to have a man. I ended up with a fairy tale ideology that I had to work through and process and unpacked because I expected men to be this fairy tale that my father was. He was this night shining armor. You call him he's there. He bought me my first car.

We're in Vegas. And, you know, he was a drug guy. So we're in Vegas and I'm 16. He's giving me thousands, thousands to gamble to spend. And that was reality for that type of guy. But my dad also told me if a man looks like me, smells like me or acts like me, run. Run. Do not bring him home and do not date him.

So he never glamorized being a womanizer. He never glamorized having six by five women. He told me this is what daddy did, but I don't want this for you. And there's too many men who do those things, and because they are too egocentric, right, versus caring about their daughters, that they would glamorize their behavior so their daughters won't look at them in a certain way. But you are tearing her up because now she thinks that the right chosen person looks and acts like you. So when she brings a you home, that's your problem. But my father told me from the beginning, it's a hard note. And when I did attempt to date, because I really never dated street guys, probably because he raised me like that.

I dated more like athletes when I was like a college athlete or some of that sort or just a really good boy next door. God, me go ahead. I'm just, I'm just. See, I told y'all he's not messy, but he crafty. I told y'all that. See, see? But when I first try to date my first little street guy, my dad didn't even. He said, let me see a picture.

He said, what do you do? I said he does real estate. He said, just like he said, that don't do real estate. I said, he don't, he don't. And my dad called me every day. I'm not lying for seven days to tell me to get rid of that man because one of them going to end up dead or jail. So guess what? You got rid of him.

The right thing to do. Yeah. You said your dad said that if he ever got married, the wife would become before the kid. He said the opposite. The kids come first? And I disagreed with him. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I disagreed.

Absolutely. We had literally almost a two-hour debate. Me and my father would debate a lot. We have almost identical personalities. Okay. And he would never tuck a tail to anybody. I'm like the only person he'd tuck and say, baby, listen, if we got to agree to disagree, then that's fine.

Or daddy's not trying to say nothing that's going to upset you. Baby, we're saying the same thing. We're saying because he's just trying to be daddy and not hurt me, but anybody else, it would have been, you know, just. It is what it is. So move on. Move on. What would have a war.

But we had a long conversation. He told me. because I had a fiancé at the time who actually had two beautiful girls and he was putting me before his adult daughters. And that's the right hierarchy. Yes. And my father said,

he can do that in your household, but the woman in my house would never come ever before my kids. And I said, Daddy, I don't agree. And I'm your daughter. I don't agree in that hierarchy. He said, you don't have to agree with what I do in my household. But when y'all come here, a woman would never come before my girls ever.

And so, you know, but again, that's also a man who has six kids by five different women. Right. And I love my father, as y'all can see, but I'm also a realist. A man who can procreate with multiple women and not

make a family with none of them, or only one of them, that says a lot about his lack of respect for a woman in general. Okay. So I would have never expected my father to say that he respects a woman who he's romantic with so much that she would come before his kids. Because obviously the respect level

for a woman was limited from the jump in order for you to be able to do things in that nature. And that's for any man, including my life. You think that's a respect thing, a man that, he lacks respect for women. If he lays down and have kids with multiple women, he doesn't respect them. Is that what? Yes. And in addition to that, he doesn't respect himself. And I also think that he lacks self-love.

Any man who will lay with a woman, unprotected, right? Let's not just talk about, obviously, procreating that can happen. We're talking about health-wise diseases. It's not going to happen. He lacks. What, if he protected himself, it would be better? If he protect, if he, now this is my thing. I do agree.

I think that it's not about what we do. It's how we do it. Okay. So if a man wants to be a man who was very honest and transparent about, look, I'm just trying to be intimate. I'm in my intimacy. Yeah. I'm just trying to have sex and have a good time, but we're going to do it safe.

We're going to get tested and use protection and no one's getting pregnant. And I'm telling you out in the front, there is nothing wrong with a transparent man who women are signing up to or a transparent woman that men are going to sign up to be in alignment with. Nothing at all. I'm talking about a man who is sleeping with the woman and the woman who's sleeping with the man and both are unprotected. It ain't just the man's accountability. The woman is accountable as well. And now you have multiple families and multiple homes that are broken. We have an issue here. That is a bad decision-making crisis in our community. And it's also people who are living in this very present world of they're so used to dysfunction and it's

become a pathology within our community that that is the norm in their baseline of what they do. And so doing anything outside of that is not just only unknown, but it's not even a norm that they know how to create. That's the part that makes it sad to me. You hold held your father in such high regards. How was it, how were you able to shift and says, you know what, I love my dad, but I don't love him enough to have a partner like my dad. Love that. My dad is a hell of a father. He is not a good man to his woman.

My dad is a womanizer, but he is a hell of a father. I truly believe that the womanizer in him and him being able to take his ego out of it when it comes to his relationship with his kids and not glamorize his bad behavior is what made him such an amazing father. Okay. Because he's able to say, I know what I do to women. So let me teach you what it looks like so you don't run into the same type of joker. And my father never put himself on a pedestal about the decisions that he was making. When I got with my ex-fiance who had two beautiful girls, right, by two different women,

my father said, who took great care of me, I was a kept woman, the man was a great guy. My father said, let me explain something to you, baby. When we got engaged, she said, you told me since you can even speak that you never want a man who has most people. multiple kids with multiple women, that you never want a man who is a man like daddy is. He said, what makes that man different because it's two and not five? And I said, you know what? You're on to something. You're on to something.

You're right. It doesn't make a difference. He still is a man who has multiple kids by multiple women. But even in that, my father didn't say, well, it's okay because I got multiple kids. You know, some guys like that could be a good man. He said, you told me as my daughter, you didn't want that. So even as a father who is doing the same thing, if I have to put myself in a bad light for you to have what's right, then so be it. That is what parenting is about, Shannon. Parenting is about I remove myself from this for the betterment of you. That is what love is. Not if I tell you, Shannon, don't get a woman who's of age like me, who's a doctor who don't want a man with kids. Don't get a woman like me. I don't want to tell you that because if I tell you that, then what? It makes me look bad. No, if I love you, that's means I use anything I have to help you get in a better position and do what's best for you.

That's what parenting is about. It's funny that you say that. Why can women have choices but men can't? Women can say, I don't want a man to have kids. I want this, I want that, I want a man that make six, seven figures. I want him to be educated. I want him to be God fear and I want him to be able to be world travel. But a man can't say, well, I want a woman that's five foot seven.

I want a woman that has long natural hair. I want him to be of this complexion. I want her to be shaped like this. Why can't men say what we want, but women can say what they want? Let's add one more thing, because I feel like we're deflecting from one more thing. Okay. We want her to be this race. We want her to be this type.

Let's keep it real. We're not going to deflect from nothing. What thing? There's black men who only date non-black women. Okay. We don't have to say white women. Just say non-black. Because there is black men who only date Latino women, but not white women.

There are white men who only have a thing for black women. There's nothing wrong with a preference. I don't think a man. saying, I am only attracted to, or I have only been attracted to, this type of woman means that he doesn't love or respect these other kind of one. Now, on the flip side, a man who says, I am turned off and do not like black women. So I date, non-black women. Right. He has mommy issues.

He has an identity crisis because you came from the women you're saying you dislike. So now we have a deeper rooted issue. I'm not saying that a brother who only dates outside a black woman cannot also have mommy issues. But if that's just his preference, then that's different than saying, I don't date because my experience was bad. I don't date because I don't like the way black women show up. I don't date because I don't like the way black women are strong or they talk too much. And I'm not saying those things ain't true for a lot of us, okay? But what I'm saying is everyone has the right to have their preference.

But I do believe that people need to look deep down and say, why is that your preference? Take inventory on that. I know my preference of a man with no kids is because growing up as a little girl, I had to share my father with six other siblings. You want to divide an attention. And I'm not sharing another man in my life. Damn! And I'm also not going to put my children in a position to have to share their father with anybody else at all. And I'm going to go even deeper when my father passed away, which I'm going to.

I'm happy my dad did it so perfect, right? It's life insurance when split up amongst his babies. Now, I love that because I love my babies. I'm the oldest of seven. Those are all my babies, okay? And if he would have gave it all to me, I would have split it with everybody anyway. Right. But I'm happy he did it on his own.

But my point is saying that is when a man or a woman gets with somebody who has other offsprings and kids, you have to not only think about the relationship presently, but also in the exit strategy. my kids do have to split things. My kids are being born into a deficit because guess what? You won't be able to be present every day with my child if you are going to be a father to those children. And when Christmas comes, our holidays come, our school comes, or God forbid something happens to your other children, like an emergency. What if our kids have an emergency at the same time? Who do you choose? What happens? Do I show up as a single mother in that moment? Because dad has to be here. How do I explain

that to our babies. And why do I have to? And I won't have to if I choose a man who I know can be present. Because being present is being in my house, in our house, in our children's home, taking them to school, waking up in the morning, them seeing you with the good morning. Our son being able to watch how you process your emotions as a man. Watch how you interact with me as a man. Watch how you sit with your legs like that. Watch how when the game is on, you sit and watch you in a certain statue. Watch how you yell at the TV the way you do what you do. I yell at the TV when I watch football and I am a football head because my grandfather and my father were football men. So we was sitting and watch football nonstop. I'm calling pick six all day. I mean, I'm calling a flag on

the play. P.I. Come on, ref. That's me. Right. Other women don't watch it like that. Correct. Because how did I learn it? By watching the men in my house. By being the only girl for so long. Kids are very observant. So my thing is, and I wrap on this is, it's not that. It's not that. that people with kids, multiple folks, are doomed. It's a different way that they have to parent. And whether you parent perfectly, not perfectly, but you parent at your best or not, those kids are still going to be in a deficit.

And I want to say this part too, because a present parent can also present trauma. So I don't want to make a seem like, because if you're in the household, you're not present trauma. Because it's also sometimes a parent, or a couple that decides not being together will create a more peaceful, healthy environment for the kids in us

is the better decision. So I'm not condoning or advocating for people to stay together in trauma-ed-out, dysfunctional abusive relationships where they're creating now not just a broken home but a broken family because of the two different things, right? I'm saying you've got to do what's best. But if you make decisions at the very beginning

that are good, then you are able to date, eight better, marry better, parent better, and you do get kids, even if they choose to detour off, like the Bible says, who have the tools to be better. And that's all that I'm pushing for our community. I'm not pushing that people who are baby moms or baby daddies to beat themselves up and say they're doing them. That's not what it is. But what I am saying, damn it is now today, make a better decision. Do something different.

Show your kids that there's a different way to do it. And, you know, let's teach folks to get out there and figure out the sense of self. our divorce rate isn't so high. And let's figure out, Shannon, how we can do more than just make good love and have a drink together. Like, how come we can't have better conversations together? We don't have to be romantic to have good intellectual, emotionally intelligent conversations. We don't have to have gender wars because we don't agree on a topic. You believe men and women can have a friendship. Steve Harvey said he ain't got no women friend. And he shouldn't. But you're married. So a man, so like, you, you know,

You're not mad. I'm not mad. Don't give me on this conversation, Shannon. I'm just saying. So you believe men and women can have a true platonic, hey, hey, let's meet here. Let's go get a drain. Let's go get a bite to eat. And it stays that.

Because a lot of people's like, oh, he's just waiting for his opportunity. He's just waiting for you at a moment of weakness and something went wrong with in your other relationship. And he got that big shoulder for you to cry on. And the next thing you know, voila. I had a best friend of 24 years. He was there through both engagements. He was going to be in both weddings. And as soon as that second engagement was off, he said, have you found someone new?

I do it. I do it. Hold on, Shannon. I said, no. We were friends since we were 14. I said, no, I haven't. He said, well, why don't we try it? I said, I know you too well.

Listen to this. So I could never be in relationship with you. He had no kids. He does well. Oh. All those. I had no kids. That's you.

That's me. That's me. That's me. That was me. That was me. That was me. My man. Where he's like?

Right here, right here. Okay, so I say, we can probably be homely love or friends and be intimate because I've known you for so long, so I feel very safe with being intimate with you. And he says, if I can't have you in every way and marry you, I won't touch your body. So I said, okay, well, let's try this dating thing. We try the dating thing.

Exactly what I told him was right. Sex was fire. Absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing. The relationship? What was wrong? Everything that he did in all of his previous relationships, he started to do in ours. He brought back.

Because people are who they, this is another thing. People don't change. We shift. We learn how to manage the things in us that we don't like or that we learn don't serve us. So if lying never served nobody, that person is still a liar who has to manage the behavior of not lying. No different than an attic. A person who was addicted to porn is managing, no longer looking at porn. Management could look like this.

They won't go in the environment of maybe a strip club. They will not go in an environment where there's a porn on television. Same thing for alcoholics, right? They try their best to not go around it as much as possible. There's a lot, a lot of willpower that that takes, a lot of managing. You don't wake up in the next day or go through six months or a year of therapy, Shannon, and you are no longer built the way you are biologically. You no longer think the way you think.

You no longer have the appetite that you used to have. Do we grow out of some things naturally? Yes. But evolving and growing out of something is very different than saying, now that I'm with you, I want to stop smoking cigarettes. Now that I'm with you, I no longer want to watch porn. You're managing yourself. So there's only a matter of a time before who you don't like about me

shows up in this relationship. So I always ask people this. instead of finding people that you have to change for or that you want to change for you, find somebody who's conducive to the shit you got going on. Meaning, if you're in your dysfunctional era, I'm serious. You find someone who your dysfunction does not create dysfunction in them. Your dysfunction may be something that they need and they can feed in a healthy way because that happens often. For example, people who have anxious attachment, those are people who are just always want to be up under you,

I want to call you want to attach, you want to do that, right? What you're doing? Not talking to you right now. Watch this. Now, I'm an abandoned little girl who's grown up to be an abandoned women. I have worked through a lot of my stuff. But that anxious attachment person would drive somebody who is in avoid-it or even secure attachment. Crazy.

That is system overload way too much for them. Me, I love me a clingy man. So if my man, hold on, I'm not saying he's sitting at home not doing nothing playing video game. I'm saying he's traveling. He's doing work. He's doing his thing. But maybe in between work, in between sessions, in between lunch, he wants to FaceTime me or text me or baby, I miss you. And when he's done with work, he wants to get right back home to Mama.

I love me a man like that. Or he wants to fly me out where he? Oh, hell, yes. So you got a therapist session. You talk. He told Mr. Johnson. So how is it that Ms. Johnson feel that you're not meeting, so forth and so on? And then you get out of that session, you got like five minutes, five text messages, three minutes calls.

Okay, so see, see, now you're going obsessive. I didn't say that the person will crash out. That's different. That's somebody who's having an anxiety attack because you're not available. That's more of codependency. Okay. I'm saying somebody who has an attachment style where they love being plugged into their partner. Okay.

They want to plug, they want to see, you want to see your woman's face before me and you do this interview. Right. So when I walked in, you might have been said, okay, baby, hey, Dr. Brian, just walked and I'll call you right back and then you hang up. And I'm like, hey, Shannon, that is what's healthy for me. Okay. But for many other people, that attachment style may not work for them. They may say I'm too needy or that person's too needy. So what I try to teach people is stop finding someone who is avoidant, right?

And I want someone who's going to be attached. And now I'm telling you all day, Shannon, like, you don't call me enough. Like, are you not into me? You know, you're not slapping my ass every time I walk by. You know, it's like you need your space downstairs in the man. for an hour when you get home to the brief. But to me, that makes me feel a little detached from you, right? Versus finding a man who says, shit, you are my man cave.

I can't, Daddy can't wait. Come on down here. Let's watch this game again. Come on, baby. Now we're talking. And while you're at a mama, bring that good shake, that good shake dark. Bring that good shade dark. You know what I mean by us finding what's conducive to us, not finding the person who

needs us to change and be something else because that's also a deeper root of issue. If I'm always attracting and choosing people who want me to change, that is an identity crisis issue. That is a lack of self-love. Something in me doesn't like myself. So I'm calibrating you who is pointing out for me what I don't like that I need to change. And I'm making you my motivating factor to change when if I don't like that about myself, shouldn't that be an inside job? Shouldn't I sit with me first and say, these are the things I don't like about me. Let me lose the way.

Let me have better self-care. Let me trailer down on my smart mouth Or whatever it is I feel I need to do Why do I need to choose you To tell me I need to change And me be motivated by you That's codependency, that's unhealthy Okay

So people, listen Get a sense to self And then find somebody who's conducive to who you are Because no one's ever going to be perfect We all going to be broken When we meet whoever we meet And there's no such thing as a fully healed person So all this wait till you heal

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You are also deadening your chemistry muscle. So when you go back out the house, six months, five years, or however long, y'all trying to isolate, then you're going, I'm socially awkward. How come I can't connect with people? How come there's no chemistry with anybody? Well, you ain't used it. So you lost it. You can't have been updated.

There you go. So it's about having healthy distractions. I'm going to heal for two hours a day and meditate and take stuff inventory and do my therapy, but then Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7 o'clock, I have to get out and socialize. I have to get out and meet people who are celebrating me. I have to get out and create a circle of wealth who are pouring into me so I have a balance of healing and also a norm that's going to allow me to be me and be around people and socialize and meet someone who I can possibly be conducive with, who I don't have to look forward to be my motivator to change and be a better

me. Being better comes from the inside, a woman to never make a man a better man. Y'all going change when you want to. As you see, in my father's words, a nigger, a womanizer's going to be a womanizer. A woman is going to be a womanizer. A woman will become a product of your environment. Offset and Cardi B is a perfect example. Cardi B came into it. She had no kids. She was

in her career. She's going diamond and platinum with her records. No kids. Offsett had how many, by how many? I think you had a couple. So who became a product of whose environment? Cardi now has two by two. My theory.

Proven. Right, again. She has two by two. So she's a product of his environment. I'm just saying what it is. Because a man who's going to marry is a man who's going to what? Mary. He's looking for marriage.

But a man who's just looking for ass is what? He's looking for it. It don't matter if he runs to Dr. Bryant. People in general, especially women, have to be, stop being so arrogant to think that anything we got, from a face to a walk to a dwarf to or anything. can take a man and make him what he's not. We ain't build him. We ain't never made y'all.

We will never change y'all. Only thing we can do is choose y'all and say, if this man never changes this right here, I will love everything about this man exactly how he is. But we don't do that. I do now. But most women don't. We go, I like 25, 35%, I think that's 65%. Once he meets me, makes love to me, see, I can cook and I can clean,

and I can do these other things. My knees is good, and I do cook, yeah. But the med cleans. I'll cook it for you, but I, but I don't eat meat. But I'll cook it for my man, but I'll eat red meat. Hey, you know all that? All that. All that.

All that. But, guess what? That ain't going to change who you are. That's not going to change the type of man you are. I don't even want to go out no more. Lose my number home boy. Don't ever call me again. I'm happy here.

There you go. Let me ask you this, because it seems like, like in today's time. Dog, when I was coming up and... Wait, this is so good. I don't even drink. This is so good. Thank you.

Shoot, I'm about to come up with a Shea, a Dr. B, something. This is good. When I was coming up, it was, like, the ladies wanted you to call them. And you just couldn't call. Like, now, if you talk to the person once a week, they're cool. If you... Who's that? Okay, the other one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't call me once a week. a week. Call me all. Listen, I said, love me. At least it was a day. Love me like this. Do not love me like that. Literally and figuratively. Love me like this. You got to love me up close. Doc on demon time. Call demon time. See, this is this with this dark deal. It didn't take long. Love me up close. But you know, but I want you to finish your question because people know how to love. Okay. Healthy people don't have to love you at a distance. Okay.

Because a distance means that I'm putting barriers in front of us. Yes. Yes. So if I am not afraid of love, then why am I not loving all the way like this? Why am I not loving like this? Why am I not loving like this? Why is it that I'm putting stipulations or barriers or limitations on how I love you? I was made from love. My parents love the shit out of me. My mom still treats me like I'm four. My dad still opened my door at the age of 38 when he would take me to dinner. So I am a love bug. So I don't need you to love me from a distance because you are starving me of the love that we could both be having if you didn't have issues with love. Because when you think of love, Shannon, you think of love as limitations? No, it's limitless.

So then why is there a number amount on how many calls or texts I can give or get from you a day? Why is it that, you know, too much time is too much time to be spent if we really love and like each other? Right. How come I can't just miss you while I'm in your presence? How come I can't just have made love to you laid up under you and want to lean over and still smell you again? What is wrong with that? Nothing. How come I can't make love to you, been with you for four days straight?

We've done made love four or five times already. And then say, Daddy, I miss you. Really? That's not obsessive. That's healthy love. That happened in today's time? That's how I love shit. It's healthy love.

And that's why I can't just be giving my love to anybody because you have that kind of personality. I'm a gallon. There's people who are pints. Okay. Gallons have to be careful of pints and pints have to be careful. No one's better. It's just different bandwidth. Right.

My love is this. So if a pint pours everything they have into me, How much is left? Oh, you still got room. If I pour everything into them, system over low. They cannot facilitate me. This is why I said we have to find conduciveness. We have to find people who are what?

bandwidth, capacity driven. We got to stop looking at this dude got a contract for $100 million so that contract could pay these bills. But then after you get these kids and you see that the trainer that you've been training with who possibly can't pay all the bills has a bandwidth. I'm not saying be with the trainer. what I'm saying is you got to find the in between or it's conducive for you. Okay.

Because people are too driven in things that don't sustain them. And then they end up making decisions that have them doing time because they didn't take their time. That's a problem. Is it in the relationship now, do we have two unrealistic expectations? Because I think the thing is that, and what I'm a firm believer in, the lady told me, say, Shannon, you're never going to find someone that has everything. You're not going to find someone that can cook, to have a job, to do your X, Y, and Z. Cassiana, if she has a job, how do you expect her to be at your beck and call? Yeah.

And then you're going to get tired if she's at your beck and call all the time. You're going to get tired of her being at your beck and call. So you're not going to find someone that has everything. Just find someone that has enough of the qualities that you want, that a few of the ones that she don't, you can survive. Perfect. And I say this, what are your non-negotiables? Right?

My non-negotiables is a man with children. That's pretty much it. Yeah. Right? I mean, of course, we can't be abusive. Those are the common sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. No kids. Right. So as long as he has no kids, I go down the list. He's kind, he's loving, you know. He has that attachment style I like. He wants to put, get his suitcase and live up in me. I love it, you know, that type of thing. And he loves on me. He's faithful. I like transparency. I don't like honesty. So he's transparent. And, and so what people need to do with say. Transparency is telling you is something that you need even ask. It's forthcoming. honesty is

I asked a question and then you answer me forthcoming is Bailey let me tell you what happened to me today baby I was driving home and got an email from my ex and I ain't talked to her in 10 years really babe yes and the email said boom boom she's in town

she wanted to go to lunch I said what did you say babe I told her I'm married that she didn't see that on social media I got a wife or I didn't respond at all baby okay and guess what we resume our day okay because the fact that you're transparent you are now depositing into our trust bank. But when I have to ask you, say you didn't respond to the email at all,

you did everything right. But I happened to run through when I say, baby, you didn't tell me such and such email with you, and you go, oh, babe, you know, I won't even think about that. I ain't even pay that, no mind. But let's say you did everything right. You really didn't pay it no mind. Now it's not about you do anything right.

It's about what? Why didn't you tell me? Most people say that. Now you are starting a little bit of cracks and crevices in our trust foundation when you ain't did nothing wrong so now of course i'm not going to leave you for that but now we got to work through me trying to say baby next time could you tell me yes but when you can just be forthcoming if you know you have nothing going on transparency is the way to build the best trust is baby look this is what this is what it is and let me go it's going to be very

unapologetic opinion but for my players out there for the men who trying to play for the woman who trying to go dig, even as a player who got a little bit of game, transparency would be what you want to do. Because when you tell a woman, everything that's really going on, she trusts you. Hold on. Trust creates what? Security. What do women want? Security. And you give an opportunity to make a choice. Because if you deny that. So how many women are dealing with a married man who they know is married. And that married man has no problem with the side chick because she knows. And in her rabbit-ass mind, she says, what, say it.

Eventually he going to leave her and be with me. And guess what? He a good man, Savannah, because he's honest with me. He told me he was married. I could trust him. But see, Savannah's man was married in that movie, too. That's the problem. And the wife don't know about you.

And even if she does, he's a womanizer. So a womanizer is going to do what? Womenized. Right. So when a person shows you who they are, my dad used to always say, believe them. Don't wrap them with your fairy tale ideology of what you want them to be. And then gaslight them when you see, that's not who they are. So transparency is the foundation, whether you are trying to move in a good character,

which I condone good character, or even if you're, You're not. It's about the transparency piece. We all want to know that whether I like you or not, Shannon, I can trust you. I'll hire you if I could trust you. Yes. But I'm not going to hire this snake who does a better job than you, but I can't trust them. It's transparency.

Do we have two unrealistic expectations of what a relationship should be? You mean on the man and women's perspective? I think so. I think the perfection thing is one, definitely. And I think that's both, men and women. I think men want this perfect woman who does all those things you named in today's society. what woman is not working. I mean, you do have some woman that were kept. I was a kept woman. But to your point, I cooked, I cleaned. He had in-house. I never denied him. All I did was work out

and run. I'm the president of NAACP here in Los Angeles. And I ran that and ran my foundation. But I didn't work. He didn't want me to work. But I also was a woman who was okay with not working and just fully submitting to him. I was okay in that position. Would you be okay now in that position? So I believe that I would be okay in that position if my husband said, baby, you know, once you have our kids, I want you home with them, and I don't really want you actively traveling the way you do for your career. And he was open to me still creating and producing all the shows that I produced where I don't

have to be so hands-on, right? I'm having my Dr. Bryant Institute, which I have therapists that work for me, that's. C clients. If he understood that what I built, which is bigger than me, it's about healing our community, is something I can still have and allow it to operate and heal folks, yes. But if he said you got to shut up, shut down shop, when I would say, well, does it make sense? Because this contributes to our economic household, and it contributes to our legacy. And these are things that I can leave behind to our children. And also that you as my husband will fully benefit from. Because

this is not mine. I built this and it's ours. And so let's take it and build it together. And I don't mind hiring an office manager, a second assistant, another CEO. I could hire four, five more people. But I want to make sure what I built can sustain. But what I will say is I am 100% open to dialing down and being more available and convenient and accessible to him. Absolutely. Because I've done it before and I love that position. Yes. You mentioned the show that you produced, you co-produced MTV, Team, Mom, Family Reunion. You're on Basketball Wives. What is it about, I remember, I had a conversation with a guy.

This had to be, Dr. Bryant, probably in 2000. And this was a time, kind of like MTV, the real world. It was just starting to come on, Survivor. And he said that. He said, that is television moving forward. I said, what do you mean? He said, reality television is going to be the wave. He said, I said, why?

He said, because it's cheap. He said, instead of paying somebody 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 an episode, and you shoot 20, 25 episodes, you can pay somebody 5,000 because everybody wants that 15 minutes. And everybody feels they'll be able to take that 15 minutes and transitioning to something bigger. And lo and behold. But I think, real television has done a disservice too somewhat because they got people, they got people thinking like, come on, bro. It's not like that. It's not like that. Yeah.

And people can't transit, many, most people cannot transition out of reality TV to anything else because they've exposed the parts of them that most people don't want to hire or don't want to represent them company, their company. So for me, you know, with teen mom family reunion, going on that show, I developed it and I co-produced it. I was an on-camera life coach, right? So my reality was my real-life position. Yes.

So I love it. I was in my purpose. I love those teen moms and dads and families that were on there. We built great relationships, and I was able to really, really transition their lives. It was beautiful. And for people to see it on TV, basketball wives, I also went on there as the psychology expert. Okay. And it just took a different toll because those group of women were not in a position of wanting healing, which I believe the network knew that.

And it's all business. I get it's entertainment. They were more in the position of saying, well, this is. is our norm. What we've been doing is reality TV, we turn it up, right? So at some point, I understood that that wasn't the show for me because I wouldn't be able to use my expertise on that show. I would have to use, you know, check a bitch on that show. It's just the truth. And so I said, let me just remove myself before I ruined myself and somebody on the show. But reality TV, I think it was good for its era. You know, I think that it still

plays a role in entertainment. But a lot of people, people are stuck in that. And so what they're doing is they got to create certain timelines to stay on it, right? And I feel like their life at the beginning is the real life. And then after they're on there for so many years, the question is how much of it is real now, because now you have to create sustainability for you to have a story. Right. But a lot of my friends are on reality TV. And, you know, so for the sake of them, I hope it stays and they keep getting their bag and they keep doing their thing. But for me, if I'm producing it, you know, I wouldn't mind doing it. it, if it's a show where I can provide healing, like Iana Van Zandt, fix my life. That's reality that I love. Right. You know? So, shout out to her.

That's my first coach and still someone who I go to for Wise Counsel. But shows like that, I think, are good. But I also think some people, Shannon, want to be entertained. I don't think we have a right to tell somebody what they need to watch to be entertained. People love it. They do. They do. You know, and for some folks like myself who don't have drama in my real life, thank God, I don't watch.

Why do we like drama, though? Why do we like the car crash? Why do we like, why do we, why, what is our obsession with seeing someone else crash out or seeing someone misbehaved? What, when do we, have we always been this voyeuristic? Well, it's relatable to some people. It also validates that they are not alone in their crash out. Perfect example. Before Tooby became Tooby.

Yeah. Now, when Tooby was Hood movies. Yeah. I don't watch movies, but when I did watch a movie, it was men's society. Boys in the Hood or a good hood, tuby hood movie. Why do you think I like that? It was home for me. Right.

It was childhood for me. I related to that. I grew up in that. I didn't want to recreate that. But every time I watch it, I'd be like a little kid in bed in my pajamas, right? Eating, having my drink, my wine, and I'm just loving watching this gangster type of love story that I was a product of at one point. And so people watch what they relate to. Remember that.

And we live in a world, especially within our community, where you do have the broken homes, you do have the dysfunction. But I do want to give us our props real quick because there are so many people in general, but especially black folks who are understanding that faith without works is dead, who have the faith and the principles. You know most of us grew up in a church home. We're black. We know God. We know principles. We know the Bible. But they're coming to therapy.

They're making therapy a lifestyle. They understand that mental health is real. That mental health will make. or it has been breaking us. And so I want to give our community the props of saying that, you know, listen, super proud of us for showing up and making mental health a conversation and making therapy a conversation on many podcasts, on many talk shows. 80% of my clients are celebrities, our athletes, NFL players, baseball players, and a good 90-ish

are black. and black men at the highest rate of any of my clients. Actually, my A-listers and my athletes have experienced suicide attempt or suicide ideation and never told anyone. And they're just blessed and happy that they didn't act on it or follow through. That wasn't always the case. It was not always a case. We grew up, I'm old enough and grew up in an environment where you weren't allowed to cry if you're a man because that was a side of weakness.

when did you think this shift happened where black men were comfortable coming to sit down and talk to a Dr. Brian or they were willing to go seek counseling this is what I'm thinking, this is what I'm feeling. I'm not okay and I'm big enough, I'm mad enough. I love that. I'm not prideful enough to say,

Doc, I need to talk to somebody because I got these thoughts going on inside and I don't know how much longer I can bite them. So as much as most people hate social media, I believe that that is one of the positive impact social media has had, is folks being able to see other folks that look like them, black men being able to see other black men, black boys seeing black men on social media that look like them expressing themselves, having mental health breakdowns on social media, showing the results of therapy, the results of not getting therapy.

We've had black folks on social media commit suicide. We've had clips of that. I think social media, the power or the positive power that it does have is the witnessing of other people having the same crash out or mental health crisis as we as a viewer are having and normalizing it for us so we don't feel alone and then seeing what they did to cure it or to help it and saying, you know what, I want that help too. I think when you don't have the vision of what is possible for you, but the Bible said, we perish.

We perish. Right? The Bible says it. It says, people without a vision, do what? Perish. And it says, hope deferred does what? It makes the heart sick. So when you lose hope, we have a sick heart, which make what?

Sick people, whether it's physically or mentally. But one thing you said that I love is you said them come into session and being like, okay, doc, you know, I'm broken or I have these thoughts when I feel this way. y'all don't come to session like that by the way it takes a while to get a y'all work my ass okay and don't be like that especially black men you come in session

and I love this about you listen I have a soft bar for my black I love y'all boy y'all come to session I don't even want to be here I don't even know why I'm here but I'm here my wife made the appointment or y'all sit in session and I love this part you're waiting for me to create a safe space

Why do I love that? Because I am not entitled to hear your issue just because I have a title. You should make me work to create a safe space for you so that you know you can trust me. However, you should do that as well in your relationships before you putting your penis in a woman. You should make sure that that body and that space, that body and that space. that body and that space is safe so that your trauma and your issues wouldn't become buried in your codependency

on sex and you would be able to gain a sense of self and not a sense of your codependency where all it does is trigger and inflame your traumas and your existing self-hate and issues and then we would have better men not for women but for their self and the suicide rate is the highest in black men

Really? Do you know what the root of suicide is? It's self-hate. It's identity crisis. You have to hate yourself so much and the identity that you tell yourself you have to want to kill the biggest part of you. That is an identity crisis.

But then you don't realize, okay, I'm hurting so bad. And if I do this, I'm no longer hurting. But you miss the most important part. The people that you leave behind that got to hurt forever. because now they question, where do we go wrong? What do we do wrong? What did we, what signs did we miss?

And you know what's funny? The people that you want them to think about that's going to hurt the most when they're gone are the people that got them in the pain that hurts them the most. Wow. So you think they give a care about leaving you? Let me tell you something.

I've had a boy sit on my phone and tell me that he was going to kill himself in the kitchen, time it so perfectly so that his father could walk in and see him because he wanted his father to feel the pain that he projected onto him that he was not aware of. You think that little boy cared about his father being in pain for the rest of his life when the whole intention was

killing myself is the measurement of the pain that you have projected onto me. that you ain't addressed, you ain't said nothing about it, you're going about your daily life, dating, working, doing whatever you're doing, and I am bleeding to death in front of you, in front of you. I had to sit on the phone with that boy for hours and hours. He's now doing well, suicide ideations are gone. Him and his father have the most amazing relationship,

and his father always says, I am forever, ever indebted to you. I'm like, no, you're not. Right? But I said that to say, that's not how a person who was in excruciating pain to the point where they want to kill themselves is at. They don't think of like it. They're not thinking like that. But also, as an accountability piece to the people who are around them, it's not good enough, Shannon, for me to ask you, baby, you're okay?

Let me tell you something. I have two brothers, both younger. If I ask our baby brother, his name is Shane, he's a baby of all of her. If I call his phone, forget, if I call his phone and he don't answer too many times, you can ask my best friend and assistant who's in here, Shannon, I'll pull up and lay on that horn, knock on that door, come in the house. Because, bro, what is up? What is going on?

And there has been times where that was needed. And he didn't want to say what was going on. He was raised to be that man that you said. that if a bill is short, he's not going to ask. If he's feeling some type of way, he's not going to speak. But when he walks in the house, I can tell when his mood's off. Because I pay enough attention to that boy because I love him. And as folks who love our folks, we have to pay more attention than just Shannon said he was good.

We caught up in our own cell. We ain't got time to be thinking about all that. But if I noticed you weren't good, that's the only reason why I asked you. And you said you was. Why did I take that as okay? Why didn't I say, no, you're not? No, could you ask that question for a reason? Or you got some people who ask it for the okay,

which is an egocentric approach, just to say... Well, I asked him, and he said it was okay. I've done my part. So ask me when you really care. Don't ask me how I'm doing if you really don't care. Because if I'm not doing well, and I told you I wasn't, and all you was asking to say you did your part,

how was you going to provide resources? How would you going to be someone who can help me with this impairment? So what I want to say, honestly, to everyone within our community, this is just real. The whole, What's Up, Dog, you good? Needs to be a real, but are you good? Well, I ask you that because I know you're not. So, what's up? And I need to be pressing you.

Like, I press you when I want to go have a drink. Like I press you when I want to go hang out. Like I press you when I want to turn up. Like I press you when I want to be outside. Like I press you when I want to watch the game. I should be pressing you when I know something's not right with you. Because that's what real friend is. is that is what real love is and I don't care if you get mad I'm in your business and I want to

know why especially with black men yes especially with black men we need to because y'all will get fussy and get emotionally uncomfortable and why you bugging me why you want to talk about because I'm because I'm bugging you and until we talk or you tell me something I'm not going away because I love you I've had to tell clients who have been mad at me in session listen I'm doing my job you can't get rid of me so you can get as mad as you want. I'm not going nowhere. Do you know how that shifted the whole trajectory in that man's whole attitude? When I said, well, I'm not going nowhere. So you can get mad. We still got 30 minutes. I'm not going nowhere. And I'll be here next week too. I'm not going nowhere. I've had men break down and just cry by me saying, I'm not going nowhere. So we can

unpack this and we can do this tug of war. But I'm in your pain with you. What about this situation. And I think, and you've heard this, and this happens a lot, is that sometimes when we reveal our deepest, innermost thoughts to our partner, they turn around and flip it when they get mad and throw it up in our face. Yeah, that happens often. So now, I don't feel this is a safe space. So I've got to go to someone that doesn't have a dog in a fight. I know they're not going to throw this up in my face because they're like, well, you know, you can talk to me about anything, but I can't. Because the moment you get mad at me, you're going to throw this. up in my face and say, see, your grandma didn't do this or your mama didn't do that.

You got blah, blah, blah. And I mean really trying to hear that. But why are you the only one going to someone to talk? Why are they not going to someone so that they can learn the proper tools to facilitate a healthy relationship? Y'all boldly to be in someone's office. But they're perfect, so, but anyway. But that's a bit of narcissism is what you're describing.

Because if I'm perfect, but you don't have a safe space with me and I throw everything you say back in your face because that's just ego. If I'm throwing something back in your face, I'm intentionally trying to hurt you. And that's also a competitive nature. Because any time I'm trying to chip away at you so I could feel more superior to you, that's a narcissistic behavior. So what are we doing here?

Now, again, I said narcissistic behavior. So you can have traits and not be diagnosed. You can have the behavior and not be diagnosed, okay, y'all. So yes, but we have to be aware of that. And I think as women in general, especially black women, we do got to do a better job of holding. space for y'all. We do

got to do a better job of having a safe space for y'all. And when we do get upset, knowing how to have a fair fight, I can easily say you ain't shit for not telling me about that email. But do

I have to say, that's why your mama left you? Exactly. Because you probably was a lion-ass when you was a teenager too. Ooh! That's why she abandoned you? because she didn't want to be around you either like so those are things that we have to be aware of because that's venom yes and if I'm spitting venom at you

that means venom is where in me yeah so now my trauma has just entered into the relationship not the woman you probably chose which was the healthy me that showed up my representative which is still me was a healthy me I didn't tell you was a nothing as do when we first started dating but now that you have entered into my vulnerability, which encompasses all of who I am, you are getting who? All of who I am?

So you're not just getting the baby talk to me. Are you okay? Why are you hungry? Well, what happened? Oh, that's okay. Just next time the email comes through, just tell me, can you commit to that? Yeah, okay, baby, we're good. Now you're getting the trigger little girl in me who's abandoned.

So now she's the one that's having an argument with you. And she is going to de-emasculate you. She is going to dismantle you. Why? Because she was dismantled as a little girl. And misery and healthy, both love company. So when I'm in my healthy, I'm going to pull you in. But when I'm in my dysfunction, I'm going to pull you in.

So this is why I say you have to have people who are hybrids, high functioning and low functioning. We have to both be both. Because when I'm in my low functioning, what do I need you to be in? You're high functioning. I need you to say, baby, that's that little. girl on you who's broken. And I know you don't mean what you're saying. And I love

you. And I'm going to have grace for you right now. But I'm going to ask you not to talk to me like that. Because you're crossing my boundary. And I'm working very hard to make sure the little boy and me don't get in the ring with her. Right. Because then we're going to trauma bond. And I don't know if we can come

back from them blows. Yes. You have to stay in that position. And then when you go low, I have to be able to be aware of my man and say, He's in that space. Because normally, Doc, when they go low, I go to hell. Hold on. Hold on. Both of us. That is, because let me tell you.

I bypass the basement now. And then I remind, this how bad I get. I say, yeah, shy, because God said if you make your bed in hell, he's there. I said, well, then God, we're going. We're going. Yeah. Yeah, we got to work on that. I'm getting better, Doc.

I'm getting much better. I ain't got the fight anymore like I used to have. I'm getting older now, Doc. I'm getting wiser. The problem is I still got the fight. And the grit and the strategy. So I'm managing all that. Is there a difference between a therapist and a life coach?

There is. So I started off as a marriage, family, and child therapist, right? Where I was working for a nonprofit under a license and diagnosing and doing progress notes and billing insurance and dealing with court-ordered families from DCFS, the Department of Child and Family Services. And so that was where a therapist diagnosed we do progress notes, we build insurance. A life coach is somebody who still provides resources in tools, right, similar to a therapist, but we don't diagnose. We do not bill insurance, and we obviously don't need progress notes. Two totally different things. Also, a life coach isn't treating clients.

A life coach is seeing clients. As a therapist, I was treating clients, right? I'm not just seeing them. My modality is a hybrid modality because I started off as a therapist, and my, approach was cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic. And because that's my foundation, I use a lot of those tools still in my life coaching. And to blend it altogether, they're both needed. And that's why my hybrid approach is the most effective because therapy is like, tell me more to talk about your childhood wounds and these are why you do what you do. This is

why you think the way you think, right? Your three-part house is how you think, how you feel, and how you behave. This is why your three-part house is disaligned. Then we get you aligned, coaching says, all right, Shannon, now that we got you somewhat together, where do you want to go with this? Who do you want to be? You see, coaching, if the person doesn't have a therapeutic background like me, doesn't know how to penetrate the trauma, right? And therapists are not coaches. They're just trying to help you process through your stuff, but they're not going to get you to where you want to be. When you take both of them, which is me, the hybrid, I'm going, we're going to talk about the stuff, and then we're going to get you to where

you want to be. So your stuff does not come in and sabotage you once you get there. because one without the other really is a deficit to the client. It just really is. Did you get this kind of vitriol before you came, before you became viral and you became an internet sensation? Did people dislike you then as much as they do seem to dislike you now? Because every time I turn around, somebody got something to say about you.

Well, you know what I say about that. What you said about that now? Because, you know, the internet lit your ass up too many times. Oh, man, it got me. You see, I ain't even on the internet. I don't know. You ducking. Shannon said, look.

Yeah, yeah. Y'all don't want Shane to go to hell, so leave him alone. Nah. You just leave alone. I always say this, when everybody likes you, you're on your way. When they start to hate you, you made it. That's how I put it. But to answer your question, people have always loved me,

but not always loved the truth that I speak. Okay. I've always been a truth speaker before I was even in my field. And I just learned now that I don't give the truth outside of sessions. stage, interviews, or my speaking events. If my friends don't ask, I don't give. It works better for the friendship, and it saves me the headache. Right.

But I've always been a person who rocks the boat. I'm here to interrupt generational pathologies. I'm here to interrupt dysfunctional pathologies. And as a disruptor, people are going to have an issue. And usually the hit dog is what barks. And so I'm used to that, and I'm okay with it. And my intent is to hit the dogs that need to bark. And so long as they bark and I'm doing my job.

And I always say, you know, my sheep will know my voice. Even the wolf who's in sheep clothing because that wolf is where in my herd. And so either way, my thing is, long as you get something and you do something with it, then I've done my job because I'm obedient to who, God, not people. China passed the law that said influencers need the whole degree and the topics in which they discuss to reduce misinformation. Do you think as Americans should adopt that policy? I don't

personally. I don't. Because I think sometimes experience is the best teacher. I agree. I don't think anyone should need a degree of accolator credential to give any type of expertise no. Because I agree with you. The first thing I say when I talk is when I went and spoke to the Steelers, you know, shout out

to my Siller family. I said, listen, my accolates these six degrees, they don't qualify me to speak to you. It's my experience. It's my pain. It's my abandonment. It's my trauma that's going to make me relatable to you. Yes. Nothing I read in the book. None of these plaques and degrees that are in my office on the wall is going to be what makes

me relatable to you. And so I agree with you. And I also think that it's not just a person who has had experience. It's a person who has gained wisdom from that experience. Because I always say, you know, when folks say, how can you give advice or wisdom to folks you've never been married to your mother? Well, because, one, I don't teach people how to be married. I teach them how to get out of their own way.

So I'm teaching you how to process through your stuff so you can be a better, healthier, happier man and her do the same. Happy people make for happy relationships. Trauma and out dysfunctional people make for trauma and out dysfunctional relationships. However, I don't want to hear from a married couple that I've been married 15 years

in Miserable 13, how y'all did it. Because you're giving me your blueprint to your failed marriage. So it's not just about experience, it's about the wisdom. Because if you look at really quick the Moses' journey, He freed the Egyptians from Israelite, right? From Israelite.

And the Israelites from Egypt, right? Across the Red Sea. He gets there. You know, he's disobedient. The people are. So God makes him do what? Spend 40 years in the wilderness. He gets out the wilderness.

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Bombing, bombing with Eric Andre. Now, Moses was the leader. He was supposed to be the expert. Yeah. He'd been freed everybody. body, right? He didn't free these Egyptians. So now he gets to the promised land. So God tells him, I'm going to bring you to the promise land. Remember, God's promises never return void. So he brings him to the promised land. Yeah. That means a promise land right here, right here.

And he tells Moses, talk to the rock. Water will come out. Well, Moses being so experienced, but not wise, he hits the rock. Water still comes out. Why? Because God does. what keeps his promises. But guess who made it to the promised land, but not in the promised land? Moldus. Because he was what? Disobedient. But let me go further. Everybody that Moses led, everybody that was under Moses' wise counsel that wasn't wise, it was just experience, also didn't make it into the promised land. Only Joshua and Caleb made into the promised land. So what am I saying, y'all? You got to be careful at who has your ear. You got to be careful about this person has experience because they've been married for 20 years that makes you

think they have experience but do they have wisdom because the bible says to seek wise counsel not to seek experience so you got to make sure you're doing your due diligence because like moses you don't want to end up being his follower who does all of this work he could have left you in slavery for that you could have stayed in captive you still didn't get to the promised land because it takes one decision to change the entire trajectory of your life and that one decision to follow Moses got them where 40 years of wilderness and then where back in bondage because they never made to the promised land and so again it's not to to ding Moses we know Moses was doing God's job

he just was disobedient though I just want folks to really be careful to your point of who they're listening to and do your due diligence don't look at someone and say well because this man, you know, has three kids by three different women. There's nothing I can learn from him. Let's see if what he's doing now is breathing the results that you want. Let's not look at a woman who doesn't have kids or a man who doesn't have a certain career. Phil Jackson. How many years of basketball did he play?

He was on the next team. But Bill Belichette is better. He didn't play football. But Phil also didn't do nothing, Kobe, and the people he coached did. No. No, he didn't play at that. didn't play at that level, but... But was he, is he one of the best coaches?

Yes. Arguably? Mm-hmm. Okay. And you can go with Bill, Belichick. Same thing. Yes. Oh, gee.

The Hall of Fame coach, in my opinion. Didn't, didn't... Coach Sabin. Okay. So my point is, those people are folks who are wise counsel, because they're taking you to the promised land. Right. And allowing you to enter.

Right. So we got to be careful with that. And so, again, I'm teaching people results that I have. If I don't have the results, I don't teach on it. Right. Because I don't know about it. And if I have had the experience, but it didn't get me wisdom or a good result, I'm not going to talk to you about it. I have a wise counsel for that because I'm not a know at all.

But I do want to give you what I do know works. You do a lot for the black community. Women, black women are some of, if not the most educated, but seem to be losing in the job market at an alarming rate. Why do you think that is? Why do I think black women are losing in the job market, but they're the highest, because we are the highest educated folks out here. You said that part? Yeah, I do you. Okay, I want to make sure.

I want to make sure. I think that, so I think that what's happening is more black women, and studies have shown this, are turning to entrepreneurship. So it's not that we're losing in the workforce, it's that we are not really applying in the workforce. A lot of us are going into, and studies have shown that a lot of women have gone to law enforcement. school, which means they're having their own law firm. So they're not being hired by anybody. They are going back to get their doctorate, mean they're going in private practice. So who are hired by unless they're working for a hospital? And a lot of women are starting their own entrepreneurship and doing their own thing. A lot of black women, let me say, are starting their

own businesses. And what I love about that most is these businesses are businesses that are actually they're able to capitalize off of them and they're successful businesses. And I believe the reason for that is, there is or has been for a while a sisterhood that black women have been able to build. There's no longer this barrier or angry black women between black women. Like we have a village over here. We supporting each other. We are rocking with each other. And the issue is us trying to blend with y'all. And it's not your fault. It's just so that we don't have this barrier of this gender war. And it's not us against y'all. It's more of how do we blend and support each other? Even if we're not procreating or marrying or creating a family, how do we

we support each other just as community folks, just as a black woman to a black man and what does that look like? And again, this has nothing to do with whether the black men dates a non-black woman. I'm saying as a black man, I don't care who you date. You can still support black women because you believe in that. Because if you're a black man, there is a 100% chance that if you have a daughter, she's black. I don't care what a mama is. Which means you do have a responsibility to support us. Because in return, you're supporting her. Right.

And that's important. Doc, what is the, how do I want to phrase this, a relationship? Mm-hmm. Because you get into a relationship, today is Tuesday. We get into a relationship on Tuesday. And Wednesday, that person is a different person. Thursday, that person is a different person because the greatest key to survival is adaptability. Mm-hmm.

How do you evolve every day as that person evolve without losing yourself? I love that. It's impossible. Why, I think the Bible says cleave. One person, one person, this is cleaving. Do you think that as we don't lose ourself, we are going to not cleave? So when we bump up against each other, there has to be some movement, which is a bit of a loss of a self. Doesn't mean you become out in person before we can intertwine and cleave.

That means you have to be willing to lose some pieces of you. And this is the thing. When you're single, don't you want to evolve? Yes. Don't you want to prune or do you want to be a fig tree? You know, the fig tree in the Bible got cursed because it didn't produce anything. God said you'll never be blessed because you weren't fruitful multiplied. That's why people don't like figs, huh?

But on the flip side, you know, the fig tree is actually the most fruitful tree ever. It grows you around. But let me say this. When you are by yourself, you want to evolve. Yes. Which means parts of you die. So why get in a relationship? And I love this question.

for black men and black woman, especially black men. Evolution is about parts of you dying. So why is it that, y'all okay with doing it when you're by yourself? Why is it that when you get with a woman? And that is a necessity. It's she's either trying to mother you, trying to change you, or you're not willing to do it. That makes no sense at all.

Because you have to evolve, and evolution is parts of you dying. That means you're losing parts of you. Some yes. But when you get into a relationship, you're resistant at losing parts of you that are necessary for you to cleave with the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. If that is what's necessary for the bigger picture, for the mansion within y'all, the sanctuary within y'all, why is that an issue? I want to ask you that as a black man. Yes. Why is that a problem for y'all to cleave, which means evolve, which means lose parts of you?

When you are in a relationship, why is there so much resistance of I am who I am? I'm not changing. You met me like this. Yeah, yeah. That's a lot. Because I feel like, because like you said, we are losing parts. If we lose parts of ourselves, am I still the same, Shannon? But why do you want to be the same Shannon even if you're by your, so do you want to be the same 30 old Shannon?

No, no, no. So then why do you want to be that on your number two with me, or your number five with me? Why is it that me being the woman you chose? I got to be of some good character. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So my good character hasn't influenced you in any way to want to... It made me want to do right. To do better.

Yeah. To do right. But can I say me? I haven't watered any seeds in you? Yeah, you have. And so when those seeds are watered, right, and you start to grow, what about the pruning season within our relationship? So you just don't want to prune?

Because if you don't want to prune, that means you don't want to prune. that means you don't want to grow because it takes pruning for growth yes so explain to me and even when we sew up the soya to plant new seeds yeah there's seeds down there that get sewed up that end up dead so at what point do we grow together this is one the biggest deficits and issues within our black community of black and men being in relationship at what point do we grow if you're not willing to grow fig tree at what point and then when god curses this marriage had, because you covering me, because you refused to be fruitful, multiply fig tree. Then what? I didn't do my job? Or was I too controlling? Or was I trying to be your mama?

Or was it that you chose to sit up there with branches unfruitful, not multiplying, because you didn't want to be pruned for us to grow? I'm just kidding to know the answer. I wish I knew the answer. And you look like you might be the only black men in the same. this room besides the brother over there, and he's not in this interview with me. No. So why? You got to answer.

You got to come up. Well, if I knew that, I probably wouldn't be almost 60 and not married. And I've heard you talk about how you are in relationships. I am. I mean, like you say, you got something down to go. Right. But you're very, and I don't say this to, you know, poke you. I'm saying, you know, wrapped in love.

You're very stuck in who you are in relationships. Yeah. Yeah, you're very, this is who I am. And when I want my space, I want my space. And I don't need a shift or change. You can do what's conducive to me type thing. Yeah. And so that is the resistance.

But you just said as a single man, you would not want to be the same 30-year-old you are now. I don't. But I just don't. So why do you want a woman to be with you? Are you the same person you were when I met you? I'm working. I'm a working progress. It's taking me longer than anticipated.

You know, I had to repeat a couple of grades. Okay. Um, I think, uh, to be honest, doc, I don't know like, like, I don't know, maybe like you say you, you had this vision of being married. I don't know if I really, really deep down inside thought about I was going to ever be married because I was just, my whole focus was to get my family out of the environment that we're saying. Right. And I didn't necessarily think I thought I needed a wife in order to do that. So it was just work, work, work, focus, focus, focus. And I don't do a great, I don't do a great job of multitasking. So I can't do my job and love this person like I love this job. That's the hardest part because I've always put work first. Work has always come first. When I played it was the most important thing. It was the only thing.

You play second or if you can't play second, there ain't no sense that you're getting in the car. And so it's so hard for me to turn that off because I've done it for so long. And now that I have so many people counting on me, you know, brother, sister, mom, kids. it's just hard for me and you know the thing that I got that's all you do is work

the only thing that you care about is work and sometimes I think that is true because I've never I've gone on one vacation in 57 years but what are you overcompensating for because workaholics are overcompensating

for something they're lacking and oftentimes work is transactional it's not relational it's transactional It's transactional. Yes. Oftentimes, folks will overcompensate in transactional worlds for what they're lacking in relational worlds. And it's usually because of what you said, they don't know how to operate in the relational world.

No. But they do well over here. I do. And we all go where we do what? Best. Yes. That's why I don't have a whole lot of things. But what I do do, I'm very good at.

Yeah. I don't take on new hobbies because I hate, well, how do you know if you're good at it? I know. and so what I'm good at I become great at but I want to know when are you going to give yourself a chance to love and be loved

because you don't have to enter into it being great already you just have to enter into it with the willingness to shift and be malleable not to the woman

but to the opportunity of you being loved and loving somebody back which is really you know the ultimate fulfillment the reason why we have to keep working and keep working and keep working and turn into workaholics is because there is a monetary or a limited fulfillment over here yeah so we have to keep to get it yeah like a drug yeah to get it yes but see love is not like that it's not I think doc for me

growing up how I grew up and not having it it it it it is just drove me. And that was the thing that I really obsessed about was to like to see my grandmother not have to worry about bills and not have to worry about things. And so I just poured everything. God gave me the ability to be disciplined, be dedicated, and be determined. And so for me- Wait, but not to a woman. No, because if there was a choice, Doc, if I had a choice between work or woman, I'm choosing work. But that's because work is safe for you. It is. What is so unsafe with you? We mean. emotionally with the woman.

I think for me, I haven't had the best luck with women. Why? But I haven't been the best for them. That's okay. Talk about the luck. What is the narrative around you haven't had the best luck with women? I, because I've never given them all of me like I have a job. I only gave them what they couldn't hurt.

There you go. This is good. What is it that they could hurt? What's that? Me. What part of you? My heart. That was hurt when?

When was the first heartbreak you can even think of? Ooh, we. I don't even... Who was it by? I'm not even sure, Doc. Was it by Dad? Where's Dad? My dad died when I was, my dad died when I was, uh, when I was 13.

Was he with mom? No. What kind of guy was he? Um, I only saw my dad once to really know who I was looking at. There you go. There you go. So that abandonment, that abandonment wound. What is your, what, what is your narrative about your father?

What kind of guy was he to only have seen him once? Well, um, when he and my mom divorced, um, my grandfather, you know growing up how we grow up get divorced the kids are going with the maternal grandparents and that's what that's what we did we came down to south georgia let me let me word a different thing what kind of father would you have to be to only see your child once in 13 years i think he was embarrassed about what um not being what he wanted he wanted what he thought he should have been not being there my dad had some drinking issues um and he didn't think he was the the father that he should have been.

And I remember my grandmother, Grandma Charlie, his mom, told us that he wanted to come home. But at that point in time, he had had both jaw bones removed because of cancer. And he didn't want, he said, Grandma Charlie, he called a Charlie. He said, Charlie, I don't want the kids to see me like this. And she said, Pete, they're going to love you regardless. They just want to see their dad. And he said, you know what?

He said, you know what, Charlie, I'm going to come home in September. Yeah. Well, he died in August. And so, yeah, I would have loved because when I played college ball and I played in the NFL and I saw guys have their dad in the locker room or standing on the sideline,

I used to think, man, it'd be so cool to have my dad here and to be a part of this. But it didn't happen. But, you know, my grandfather died when I was eight and that's who raised my grandmother and my grandfather. But granny poured every ounce into me. But there are some things I think that I did miss because I didn't have

My brother was like my father He was really the dominant male figure that was in my life But That's I mean poverty That's what kind of shaped me And I joke when I said man We grew up so poor

I had to win the lottery just to be broke That's how bad we were doc And that's what drives me now All I think about is like okay if something happens to me what's going to happen to Libby what's going to happen to Spanker what's going to happen to my mom

my kids will they're going to be okay they're going to get more money than would they do right by what would they and that's what keeps me up at night and I need to devote I need to shift that and said okay Shannon

if something were to happen to you your family's going to be okay because I do want someone and I'm going to say something okay and I totally wrap it in love, okay, because it's going to probably sound a little pokey, but the same selfishness you just described your father has, you have it, you have it.

And the pain that his selfishness and his pride and his ego implemented in you is the same pain that you're implementing in everyone you come in contact with, including your girls and their mothers. What your father taught you was nobody, not even y'all, were good enough for him to come around or stay around. And nothing has been good enough for you to stay around, not even your kids, because you obviously are not or we're not with their mothers. Right. And it doesn't make you a bad man.

It just makes you a man that needs to be aware of your makeup and how you're built. because you can't change that. When we talked about it earlier, you can manage that once you realize, damn, I'm him too. So until you realize that ego, that pride that he has,

that he has taught you, and it's obviously in your DNA as well, and that selfishness is what will always be a barrier between you and your heart, not you and a woman, it's you in your heart. Then you will always

overcompensate and work. And you're going to do damn good over here, but it's going to come a time if it hasn't already, that what you're overcompensating for, which is the heart space, start to consume you. And you're going to need that to even balance you over here. Because we can only do something out of moderation for so long before the moderation says, yo, what's up, especially the matter of the heart.

And with you, it's what I said earlier, right? Hope deferred makes the heart sick. And when a little boy becomes deferred from hope at a young age with his father, and they take on the father role like you did and go and get it and put the family on the mat and take everybody out of poverty, he usually never returns to find himself. And the only thing or one of the biggest things that kind of breaks my heart with you is you've accomplished so much in everything you've touched transactionally.

It has turned to gold all the way down to the goal. jacket um but like the fig tree you still haven't found yourself all the way at the age of 60 and finding yourself takes the heart the mind replays what the heart can't delete hello and so you have been operating from such a mind space so that you don't have to even have a connection with the heart, that it has put you in such a deficit of self. And that's what goes back to when I said, a man who can procreate with multiple women without wanting to make sure that there is a foundational family there, he has a loss of self. And that man has an identity crisis.

And there was a huge self-love deficit because a man who loves himself makes decisions that represent self-love. And everything that you have externalized is a direct reflection of you. The brokenness in the families you created, that's just the brokenness in you. How you can be successful transactionally, but your heart is over here. Talking about, well, at what point am I going to get seen? And then what the little boy in you tells the heart is, did nobody want to see you when you was young?

I want nobody tripping off you then. so why do we think anybody is deserving right or why do I think as a little boy that you're deserving of someone who would take your heart and really protect it and create a safe space so it's easier for you to have transactional sex or have things that are convenient for you because that gives you control and control is just insecurity and security is just fear and that's that little boy in you who is so afraid that if I can't touch and go and touch and go with everything I might end up touch and staying and might get stuck in a place that I don't know how to navigate. Let me say this again, not in a place that isn't safe, not in a place that isn't loving, but in a place that the little boring you does not know how to navigate. It's time for the grown man in you to grow the fuck up and give yourself a chance to love whatever that looks like

and to gain a sense of self of who you really are at your heart's face because transactional life isn't really legacy. It just isn't. It's nice on paper. Yeah. But it's not legacy. The real wealth and the real legacy is what Deion has. And that's family.

That's family. I'm not saying you don't have it with your girls. And I'm not saying it's too late to create it. Right. But what I'm saying is I would like to offer that at some point, you do start to say, let me just dive into my heart by myself. Even if you're still doing your transactional stuff with women or whatever, I'm saying, stop, you've grown.

But start to just get a sense of self of, like, who you are at the heart space. Because our heart is who we are. Our mind is something that we have to have, dominion over to control, but our heart is something we can't control because it's the authenticity of who we really are. Well, since you put it, like, since that, what is it about good girls and bad guys? What is it about good girls who like bad guys? Yes.

You mean, like, the woman who've been liking you? I guess you could say that, doc. Chouche. John, you got to get crafty. I think that those women, again, are women who are overcompensating. for that kind of fatherly bad guy who can come in and create a leadership that they believe leadership is. Usually those women are fatherless little girls who don't have a clue on what leadership,

healthy leadership looks like. So they look at the bad guy who can puff his chest out and who can call shots or who can have some control over her as, this is leadership because he's given me some type of guidance, some type of direction. Yes. A woman who has had a father knows how to decipher from a controlling man who's the bad guy and a man who knows how to lead her. And what happens is it's not that the woman with the father doesn't want a man who can run shit

because I like a man who will run shit. For sure. Who will tell me exactly where to go, how to go. And I'm even okay, we're saying how high when he say jump when the leadership is right. Right. I'm quick to submit. Okay, Daddy, no problem. But a man who is a bad guy with ill intent,

because if you don't have good intent, you have ill intent. There is no look-worn. That's it. So you're either deceiving me or you're allowing me a safe space where I can trust you. There's no in between. So the bad guy is in deception. And only a woman who wants to be led by a deceiver is a woman who is lost in herself. But a woman who is not lost in herself and has a sense of self and a sense of what a male healthy leader looks like.

Like my father led me not to a ditch, but led me even when he had to crucify himself to lead me. Right. That is what a husband looks to me. A bad guy says, I'm not crucifying nothing over here. You'll be on the cross before me. And here, you can carry minds too because that's what's conducive for me. That's a woman who is lost in the sauce. and she has daddy issues

and oftentimes she may even have parental issues and that's also a woman who has to take a step back and take inventory on where did I learn that this leadership is accurate leadership if I keep being led into the ditch

that means that all she's ever known is what? The ditch. And when I say we go to places where we're good at or what we're familiar with so if you want to know where you at

just understand that you are where you're familiar you're at. So my expectations are of men are very high because my father created a very high familiar standard expectation. This is why I said a woman is where her daddy makes her, especially when it comes to men. My dad actually made the expectation too high. And then he had to tell me like, baby, you're going to keep being the bridesmaid, not the bride, if you keep having these unrealistic expectations. And I'm looking like, well, well, you know what they're saying And he had to explain to me, every man's not going to be daddy.

He can be daddy to you in his own way. It may not look like this. Yes. It doesn't mean he's not a good guy when it comes to you. So that's what it is. It's folks not understanding what healthy leadership is. Men do the same thing. Men will, you know, pick women who run them, emasculate them, verbally abused them, talk to them anyway.

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