Mark Bell's Power Project - William Hollis - Your PAIN Can Become Your PURPOSE, Get MOTIVATED || MBPP Ep. 800

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

In this Podcast Episode, William King Hollis, Mark Bell, Nsima Inyang, and Andrew Zaragoza talk about William's journey from being homeless to becoming one of the top international motivational speakers.  Follow William on IG: https://www.instagram.com/williamkinghollis/ Subscribe to his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WilliamKingHollis Buy William's Book: https://amzn.to/3DdaciZ Listen to his speeches on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3lBc2EuLUrWmUHgpLJq60p Join The Power Project Discord: https://discord.gg/yYzthQX5qN Subscribe to the new Power Project Clips Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UC5Df31rlDXm0EJAcKsq1SUw Special perks for our listeners below! ➢https://thecoldplunge.com/ Code POWERPROJECT to save $150!! ➢Enlarging Pumps (This really works): https://bit.ly/powerproject1 Pumps explained: https://youtu.be/qPG9JXjlhpM ➢https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/powerproject Code POWERPROJECT20 for 20% off Vivo Barefoot shoes! ➢https://markbellslingshot.com/ Code POWERPROJECT10 for 10% off site wide including Within You supplements! ➢https://mindbullet.com/ Code POWERPROJECT for 20% off! ➢https://eatlegendary.com Use Code POWERPROJECT for 20% off! ➢https://bubsnaturals.com Use code POWERPROJECT for 20% of your next order! ➢https://vuoriclothing.com/powerproject to automatically save 20% off your first order at Vuori! ➢https://www.eightsleep.com/powerproject to automatically save $150 off the Pod Pro at 8 Sleep! ➢https://marekhealth.com Use code POWERPROJECT10 for 10% off ALL LABS at Marek Health! Also check out the Power Project Panel: https://marekhealth.com/powerproject Use code POWERPROJECT for $101 off! ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code POWER at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $150 Follow Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ➢ https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast ➢ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ https://www.facebook.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbpowerproject  ➢ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerproject/ ➢ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/markbellspowerproject ➢TikTok: http://bit.ly/pptiktok  FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢https://www.tiktok.com/@marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ https://www.breakthebar.com/learn-more ➢YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NsimaInyang ➢Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/?hl=en ➢TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nsimayinyang?lang=en  Follow Andrew Zaragoza on all platforms ➢ https://direct.me/iamandrewz #WilliamHollis  #PowerProject #MarkBell #FitnessPodcast

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Andrew, how can they get it? Yes, that's over at markbellslingshot.com. And at checkout, enter promo code POWERPROJECT10 to save 10% off your entire order. Links to them down in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Did the crank turn on? The crank turned, yeah. Set the timer. Do it. You sure we're recording? Because we don't want to lose this podcast like we did the last time. Trust me, I checked 18 times already. Cool. Yeah, we're good. So what's up, my man? You're down in Los Angeles right now? Yeah, man. We're down there working, doing a little promo tour, man. I'm on a full mission, man, to inspire this world, man, at its darkest hour.

I feel like the world is at its darkest place right now. Love, unity, morals, respect, integrity, standing on cold, standing on your word as a man. It's a lost art in the world right now. And like I said, Les Brown said, he told me a quote about Bob Marley. He said, if the devil don't take a day off, then why should I? So I'm working every day, baby. Yeah, you know, I think I've always felt that like fitness and strength training, like I've been lucky to be a part of it for so long.

Two older brothers that kind of forced me into it. They told me I was a pussy if I didn't do it. So I tried to do it and try to live up to some of their expectations. But down the road, as I got into it more, I was like, oh, this is amazing. Like, this is like a secret. Like, it doesn't seem like anybody else knows about like what this could do for your body, your mind, your spirit. Why do you think so many fitness people are gravitating towards your stuff? Because I'm seeing it everywhere. I'm seeing them clip your voice and then put it to something that they're doing with their workouts. I'm seeing it all over the place. So it's pretty amazing. So one thing I feel, I feel like my motivation is for the underdog.

And a lot of people in fitness that go to the gym and work out every day, they're trying to change something. They want to be more. They want to love themselves more. They want the world to love them more. But in the process of working out, they realize that the only love they ever needed was the love of self.

And as you train, you build confidence, right? You'll see that team and individual walking to the gym and they have no confidence. They have no belief in themselves. But once they see a man like Mark, they say, yo, one thing about a bodybuilder or a heavyweight lifter, they're just human beings. They're just men that said, I want to be greater than what I was born. And I think my motivation speaks to the individual that starts off with nothing. You know, starts off with just a thought,

just a small glimpse of what they can be. And sometimes I say, I tell everybody everybody I'm not no messiah. I'm not God because that is a very special man. I'm not any of those things. I'm like an alarm clock. I just remind you of the greatness that you have inside of you. You go, fuck, there it is again. There it goes. Time to go to work absolutely if you uh if

you rewind time 10 years ago i was that person that you just described and funny enough well i guess not funny enough just again we were talking about that universe i listened to your voice every single day like i would i would go to the gym and it's like i gotta put that put that youtube clip on it was the one where the the dude was on the on the gym and it's like I got to put that put that YouTube clip on it was the one where the the dude was on the on the beach and you were talking about um when you want to be successful as bad as you want to breathe that's when you'll find success wait well that was you no I think you got it mixed up with no yeah that's Eric Thomas oh Oh, shit. My bad. Eric Thomas. Now I feel terrible. You good.

We get that. I always get that resemblance. And you don't feel no way, K, because everybody says the same thing. Okay. It's similar. But when you listen to my work, when you go into death, like my Pain and Purpose album. Yep. I've heard that.

But when you listen to my work, when you go into death, like my Pain and Purpose album, when you go into death for that, you'll start to hear the distinctive difference between me and him. See, me, I'm like the guy on Batman, Bantam Kane. I was born in the darkness. You know what I'm saying? So the difference between me and a lot of other speakers, bro, you might listen to other speakers with your ears, but can you feel it in your soul? I study speakers like Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn, Les Brown, T.D. Jakes. Those people are mentors of mine. Yeah.

From a distance. Never met any of them. They're YouTube mentors of mine. Then you think about one of my favorite, this is what the world mentor you think about one of my favorite this is what the world don't know one of my favorite speakers of all time the favorite miles monroe absolutely phenomenal i'm right that down you know that is miles monroe yeah the world didn't they didn't want anybody to know about miles monroe died in a accidental plane crash, flying over to Bermuda Island. And the person who taught me about Miles Monroe is Les Brown.

Les Brown told me that Miles Monroe was one of the greatest speakers that ever graced the earth. He was definitely sent from God. Miles Monroe has a legendary speech where he talks about two lions. And this is a message I want to give to somebody out here. It's about two lions and a group of hyenas. And what happened was it was one lion walking alone in the jungle and there's like a hundred hyenas attacked him. And this is why I learned the value of a team, Miles Monroe. And the Lions was attacking, I mean, the Hyenas was attacking the Lion,

and one more Lion came, and every single one of those Hyenas ran away. Two Lions versus 100 Hyenas is more dangerous than 100 Hyenas. is more dangerous than 100 hyenas. So when I talk about motivation, I don't want to be Tony Robbins. I don't want to be Earl Nightingale. I don't want to be T.D. Jakes. I don't want to be Les Brown. I want to be the underdog,

the project kid that grew up mother on heroin and father a career criminal. I want to be an example for all the poor kids growing up that feel like they don't have a voice or they feel like where they at is where they going to stay forever. This is heavy as the head that wears the crown. I got a responsibility. I'm 32 years old. And right now, there's no leadership in the world.

You just have a whole bunch of podcasts and speakers that's telling you how great you can be, but they're not with you when you're hurting and you're at your worst. they're not with you when you're hurting and you at your worst. That's why I go to Compton Carson high school with my brother, Mike Evans and speak to those kids. You know, that's why I go to the Crenshaw's. That's why I go to the Baltimore.

That's why I go to Chicago's. And where I was first inspired at was at a Tony Robbins conference. It had a gold, silver and bronze package. I was in the bronze, took my last $50 to get this ticket. And I snuck to the silver. I snuck,

I saw some overseas in the silver and I went to the silver seat. And what I realized is Tony Robbins was speaking. He got to the, he was at the goal and then he got to the silver. He spoke briefly to the bronze, and he turned around. And God whispered to me, he said, Will, who focuses on the broken? Who focuses on the people that's hungry, mothers that can barely feed their children or get even cough syrup. Who focuses on them? Then I asked God in my head, I said, God, but if I go this direction, God,

how am I supposed to make a living for my family? A statement from my grandfather popped up in my head. And you got to understand in life, God has sent you signs and pieces through your whole life. And all those pieces you remember, you will never forget. And my granddad said, Will, the object is not to make a million dollars, it's to make a dollar a million times. Just make one dollar a million times. Then when I focused on celebrity, I said, what is the celebrity of today doing right now? They're sitting in a seat that's only made for God. You see, a star is a lonely individual.

If you look in the sky, a star sets alone, apart from the rest of the stars. It's one galaxy. But imagine if the stars. It's one galaxy. But imagine if the stars came together, what did it look like in the sky? One of the most beautiful sights you will ever see in your life. And what I realized is, if a LeBron James get out his car

in the middle of Baltimore or the middle of Chicago or the middle of Detroit and walk up to a basketball court as he ran past to go to this podcast or this meeting and get out and say, Yo, Kings, y'all the greatest. Get back in the car and ride off.

He just created a hundred more LeBron James. He just showed those young Kings how to go get it and come back and inspire. In our community, the African-American community, we get it. And we went without so long. We don't want to share. It's like they put them in a small hole with one piece of cheese. And once the cheese was eaten, they started to eat each other. So when I come out and when I'm speaking, I'm always going to speak real.

Rather, I'm not going to tell you what's popular to today. I'm going to tell you everything that's wrong with today. And right now, what's wrong with today is love, unity, racism, and a bunch of other things. But the number one thing that we need more than all is love. Understanding that we all are one human being. And it's our duty to come together. This life as human beings, this is God's puzzle.

And all of us is just a piece. And if we come together and we put all the pieces together, we'll see the big picture that God wanted us to see. But it's powerful people that keep us from putting these pieces together. They kill pieces. That's why things don't change because the pieces that's needed to change is dead. So if you look at what God did, God died for us.

He died for us. And what you think we made in the image and likeness of God? So we are gods. We not the God, but we are gods. And what do gods do? Gods put their life on the line for individuals that's not strong enough to fight for theyself. That's what gods do.

They sacrifice themselves. You mentioned earlier that your mom was hooked on heroin. Can you walk us through some of that, some of the early days, because I heard you on a podcast say that you one day realized that your family tree was rotten. I think a lot of times people, maybe they know some of this stuff or maybe they kind of realize it. Maybe they look around and they kind of wake up about what is going on and the direction of their family and the direction of some of the people around them.

But I think a lot of people don't feel that they can change it. What do you think was different about you? Like, did you see, was there some sort of example out there for you that you saw? You played football and you were a linebacker and stuff like that. Was there somewhere, somewhere along the line that someone give you a shot, that someone give you a chance to make you allow yourself to feel good enough to get on a roll, to get momentum? It was my mother. It was my mother.

It was a strength that she had to fight. She was molested by her father as a kid and used drugs to cover the pain. She never got help. But I remember nights when, I'm going to tell you, it was a time when my mom had a job at a senior citizen home. One of the first jobs I ever seen her have in my life. She went to work every day. I would see her get up early in the morning and fix her bag. She would go in, take care of those people every single day.

And she finally had the opportunity to take us to Blockbuster some weekends and get some movies in, go down to Big Mama's house and get a pizza. And we sat in the living room in a nacho, and we sat in the living room, and we would eat it together. That was our Disneyland. And one day they took that job from her because she didn't have a high school diploma. Caused her to go back into drugs heavy.

And that's when I was inspired. That's when I knew that it's people out here fighting to save their lives and the world fights against them. It's mothers and fathers that could still be here if the world had more compassion. So what happened was God created everything about William King Hollis as a young man.

I understood what greatness was. Greatness is taking the pain for other people, for the other people can live on. Without my mother's sacrifice, the world wouldn't know William King Hollis. Without my mother telling me, go to school, stay focused, even as a drug addict. She still took care of me. I didn't run. She still took care of me. She was a functioning addict.

We would go to parks sometimes, and she would go and sit with her friend on the bench, and they'd do their drugs while we played, getting snacks, but I didn't think about her doing the drugs. I thought about my mama got me snacks. She set me up nice, and I'm taking care of the rest of this. I had to realize that life will eat you up, man. It gets the best of us. Like I was telling these group of kids in Compton the other day, I said, you cry about not having a father.

I ain't cry about not having no father. Only thing I cried about is my opportunities that I miss out on. I told the kid, I said, you cry about your father, but if God gave you a decision, he gave you two choices. He said, I'll give you life with no father or no life at all. What you picking? I want life. I got an opportunity.

And that's what a lot of people don't think about every day they wake up. They got an opportunity to be something. I don't care if you in a shelter sleeping on your homeboy couch. You don't got nothing. You are at your greatest version when you have nothing. Because it creates a different type of mentality. And my mentor, the person that taught me to be a warrior is my mother, a five foot seven black woman.

That's who made me who I am. When I seen her reading the Bible, when I seen her writing down her scriptures, through it all, she showed me God. One thing she made me real, God is real, son. Even when I'm doing wrong, son, I got God with me. It's a quote that's going around on Instagram where it say, I ain't always been with you, God, but you always been with me. Everything you see about William King Hollis, I'm over 900 million views on YouTube,

History and Milan, all of these things and I started eight years ago in a parking lot in Huntsville, Alabama after my floor caved in. Sat in the back of a Taurus and they say, yo, King, fly out to Italy and make history. That's why I can't never

really sit around and act like I'm no big time big shot guy I'm just a regular guy like the regular guys that walk in these gyms every day that wanted to be better than where he came into the world and we look for that thing to give us that rush to give us that fulfillment in life my fulfillment is watching other kings just like me that was the underdog be the greatest. And I do it with pride and I root my brothers on and I support kings and I love people winning. Got a hating bone in my body.

I'm as stubborn as they come. Learn to admit my flaws and understand myself as a man. My grandfather said, Will, you will never understand yourself as a man until you learn how to take constructive criticism. I'm fighting every day to learn it. And I know it's a lot of men listening that's learning the same thing. But sometimes when we growing up on our own, doing it on our own, and nobody ever telling us, not even a father ever telling us what to do. When we get in the industry, we like, man, who are you talking to?

You know where I slept for this? I slept on concrete for this. Everybody can come around when the empire is grown and big, but do you remember the days when it was nothing, brother? You don't know that feeling. Do you remember the days

when you got your four or five on the side? You saying it'll be easier to blow my brains out than keep going in this? Only the people that reach greatness know what I'm talking about. And when they got there and they got everything they wanted, they realized they was chasing something that they wanted as a child. Guess what that was? A family. Something that they wanted as a child.

Guess what that was? A family. You know some kids in my neighborhood, you know some of their dreams is, is to come home and eat dinner at a dinner table. Get a hug. Right? Yeah. That's the truth.

We got to get back to the simple things. The richest man in the world, ladies and gentlemen, let me be the first person to tell you, the richest man in the world is not the man with millions of dollars in his bank account. It's the man that comes home to a family, a dinner table, a home that he provided, that he built. That's why I call you a king. Even if it's an apartment, a Volvo, a Lamborghini, you still a king because it's yours. You built it. You built it.

You earned it. You grind for it. So it means something. Don't matter. Remember that. The richest man is the man that got a family, man. That's the richest man. You spent half your life

on the road doing all this business and all of these things, that paper, that contract, that Lamborghini, that house will not remember you more than your children. Do you get a lot of yeah buts when you

go in and you give a speech and you talk to young kids? Do you get a lot of yeah buts? Honestly, no. I get a lot of yeah buts when you go in and you give a speech and you talk to young kids? Do you get a lot of yeah buts? Honestly, no. I get a lot of you changed my life. I love it. Because it's like the best thing God has done for me, a lot of people don't know, I don't write speeches. Everything comes from the heart.

So even when I go to major events, I don't write speeches. I feel the energy in the room, and I'm going to give you what God tells me to give you. And a lot of these kids, it's like God gives me the ability to literally see into their minds. I can see the pain on the kid's face. I can see when I say something, it hits a string. That string in your body, it'll hit their body sometime. I see it on their body. You'll see the glistening of the eyeballs, the tears coming.

Then you ramp it up. This is my mentality when I go speak. I look at it like it's a million people standing on a 10,000 foot cliff and I got 45 minutes to talk them off. When you go in with that type of mentality, like, I got to save his life, Mark.

I got to save their life. Not him, him, but all of them. And when you finish that speech, nine times out of ten, they're going to say, what? That's the greatest speech I ever heard. I'm curious about this, man, because, I mean, I was also raised by a single mom she's five five but she also like just raised me on scripture she worked I was able to see that and she was she is the the hardest working person I've ever met um but as I got older you know I was lucky that she did manage to put me on teams, right?

Where I was around other boys around coaches that were men. So I still got that input somewhat. Um, a lot of my coaches, I looked at as father figures, right? So I'm wondering for you, you were raised by a single parent. How did you find that you filled those roles, like even intentionally or not, the masculine role that every young child, man or woman needs? And then what do you see when you're talking to kids who like, let's say that they don't have fathers? And, you know, a tendency is like without realizing it, young boys will repeat the things that their fathers did because no one taught them otherwise or they didn't get that input so how's that been for you um i think what would turn me into a man's man is waking up hearing my dad sneak through a window

fighting my mother blood on from my mom getting people to jump them and walking out seeing bloody t-shirts and you would turn into a gladiator. Your father taking you around the neighborhood, you fighting other drug dealer sons on command. If you don't whoop his ass, I'm whooping your ass. You know what I mean? Turn into a gladiator. You ain't scared of no fight. It's like, what?

That's what I like to do. That's the number one thing I like to do. So you ain't going to threaten me with fun. So it'll become a part of your DNA. Then when you get off in the world and you start to realize, I start thinking about my apostles, and I get on the field,

start playing linebacker, I start realizing I'm hitting him, he crying. You hitting me, I'm laughing. You feel what I'm saying? My dad was like, I don't get mad at my dad. I was like, pops, look, you made me a gladiator amongst men. Because he knew, my pops knew, he realized, he told me,

he's like, well, I didn't expect to live that long. That's what people don't realize. I gave you what I had to give you. Because I didn't expect to live long. The story of my father, my father was an All-American defensive end, 6'4", ran a 4-4 in the 40, went to the University

of Indiana. On his way back from school for spring break, my Uncle Oliver was supposed to pick him up talk to him on the phone my uncle Oliver gets shot up murdered in Pontiac Michigan on his way back so when he get there supposed to be meeting his brother

meeting his brother at the station he find out that his brother has been assassinated that changed my pops whole life my pops could have been in the National Football League William Hollis could have been in the NFL, son. I could have been all of that. But just like that, my pops

became a terror. His best friend, his baby brother was murdered after getting off the phone with him. What is that as a brother, as a real gladiator? What you think that gladiator going to do? Get back. So that one moment in my whole family life,

it rotten my whole family tree. It took the happiness out of my family. And my dad had his mother and his father. So he knew the benefit of having your mother and your father. He knew. But he also knew that when his brother died, he died. You see, it's individuals, and I get it from my father, that love other people probably more than they love they self.

Some people call it a bad thing, but I call it just the heart of God God loves you more than he loves his self and that's what I tell people I love my people and I love the people who stand for righteous individuals I love people that stand for the right thing I love them more than I love the people who stand for righteous individuals. I love people that stand for the right thing. I love them more than I love myself. I'm never supposed to love myself more than I love the world.

I don't believe in that. Some people are addicted to taking, and some people are addicted to giving. I'm an individual that's addicted to giving. Some people, if they can't give, they can't breathe. Some people, if they can't take from you, they can't breathe. So you got to understand, I understood this, that I can't judge any man or any father because I don't know what they went through in this journey. And as a man grows, he starts to understand that it's not easy being a man. You got to earn that.

You're about to find out, though. Absolutely. Absolutely. You got a baby on the way, right? A baby boy. A baby boy. I actually got two girls. I got two little girls already. Halo and Nia. Love you, babies. And I Hollis. That's his name. I'm just excited, man, giving him his own name, man, his own legacy.

And, you know, man, I'm excited to be, you know, the best father that I could possibly be in the life that God has given me, you know, um, to travel and do all these things. But I'm just so happy that God put these type of feelings in my heart when it comes to, you know, my, you know, my children and, and, and, and the people that I love. I understand that I'm a King that's going to travel the world speaking to a lot of Kings and it's my job. I must do it. Where'd this whole King thing start? Oh man. So, um, one day in the living room with my mom, I was watching Michael Jackson, Remember the Times video came on. And it had Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson was sitting on that throne. You know, everybody loved Mike. And I told my mom, I was like, what's Mike?

What is he playing? What is that? My mom said, that's a king. So since six, seven years years old i've been calling myself king i've been calling my friends kings um also for a linebacker to bump his head a lot it really helps me not butcher names everybody is king king king king king what ended up happening with football though huh what ended up happening with football i though? Huh? What ended up happening with football? I cracked my L1 vertebrae. Just playing football the wrong way.

You know, when I was coming up in Little League, a lot of people don't know this. When you come up in Little League, man, we was coached by drug dealers, bro. They ain't teach us no technique. It was like, go get them, fam. Yeah, yeah. Go knock his head off. Knock his head. What's the technique?

What's the play? So, you know, we came up like that. And then we get to college. It's kind of hard, you know, doing those. Try to stay a little closer to the mic. I'm sorry. I know you're fired up. You know, at that younger age, like we was just talking about a little

prior before the interview, it's a certain age. At that younger age is when you learn the proper everything. When I came down to California, they got track classes where the kids learning how to run proper. We in the Midwest, man. Ain't none of that. And then playing in the hood, the drug dealers want to get in on the game. They knocking the wind out of the kids. They knocking the wind out of the kid. So they knocking the wind out of us across the snow on the ground. So I go out with me. I play against my age group. I'm like, this is a breeze.

This is easy, man. Everybody got that moment. Remember the first time you got the air knockdown? Oh, yeah. I remember this dude named Mike in my old neighborhood, man. I was running down the sideline, King, and the street was right here. And he came up speed and blew me into the street, knocked me into the street, King. Jesus Christ.

Couldn't breathe. And I was like, okay. That was a scary feeling. People are like, put your hands over your head. You're like, what? You're like, ugh, ugh. So, you know. I don't know if that works, but they tell you to put your hands over your head. So, you know, growing so you know i don't know if that works but they

tell you to put your hands over your head so you know growing up man that's the same thing with basketball a lot of kids go up and play with the dope dealers and good yeah well you once you go through that man that's like that's like gladiator school and then you get into college and you get into little league and you do all that like man let like, man, let's go, man. You got grown man strength at 17. Let's get it. And, you know, but that's where I really instill. I really can say, man, and nobody even asked me this question. I can say that I wouldn't change nothing, man, on how I was brought up. I think everything that happened to me as a child and as a man,

it made me who I am. I couldn't have had this mentality. I couldn't be so, you know, confident about myself. Because you got to be confident. This is a generation, everybody wants you to dumb it down and talk about, you know, who created. I believe a man should be humble and treat people beautifully. But if you a great fucking man or woman, appreciate being a

great fucking man or woman, because it ain't easy. And a lot of people who try to dumb you down is people that couldn't accomplish this great shit. You know what I mean? They try to be like, no, you step it up. Be humble. Yeah, you step it up.

Because I'm telling you, man, to channel the human spirit to be one of the best in the world, bro, it is a godlike energy that you must obtain, man. Yeah. And I don't know about other people. I only got a moment. I don't want to die average. I don't want to die. I'm not going to die average. Yeah, you like that quote that you saw in there i'd

rather be dead than happy i don't want to die average i want to die phenomenal man i want to die legend and that's the main goal and and and it's a quote that i that i that i read every morning by the honorable elijah muhammad It says the moment you believe you made it, it's the moment you started at the beginning. When you were younger, man, did, when did you, when did you figure out that you wanted to speak like that? You wanted to speak to people because some people think that oh it's like just a talent some people have but you know i would assume you really worked at it but you're 32

right now meaning you've been doing this for years and you're amazing at it but how did you who told you or how did you figure that out i was um i was just asked to volunteer down in redden pennsylvania i cracked my vertebrae, ended up homeless in Philly. Start coaching. Shout out to Coach Bernie Noritowski out in Redden, Pennsylvania. I was down in Dover, Delaware, and I was putting suicidal little quotes on Facebook and my statuses. You know, I was really going through it.

Man, football, I didn't have nothing. And Coach Bernard Noritowski, I broke the single game sack record on Mother's Day against him the year before. I had like, I think it was like five sacks in the arena bar. That's a lot. And, you know, I had a great game. And he remembered. He was like, William, what's going on? He messaged me.

I said, Coach, I'm homers. I didn't even tell him my back was cracked. I was like, William, what's going on? He messaged me. I said, Coach, I'm homers. I ain't even tell him my back was cracked. I was like, I need a team. So I'm still going to play with a cracked vertebrae. So when I went down there, he put me in a house in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Marcus Colston owned

the Harrisburg Stampede, the former wide receiver for the Saints. He actually had a house that we all came and stayed in. I stayed in. I was training. I was training. I was training. That's where I found out I had the L1 vertebrae crack.

It was over with. I was dead lifting. My whole back went. The weight almost literally just fell on my whole right leg just was gone, King. Rubber. it came back over time I waited I sat down for like 15 minutes and the feeling came back and I was working with our team chiropractor you got the x-ray and oh yeah L1 vertebrae cracked so I told him not to tell the coach because I needed somewhere

to live I was homeless I was still gonna play, bro. And this guy, two weeks before the season started, Marcus Colston canceled the team. Tell me that ain't crazy. I was about to play a – I was going to be a paraplegic probably, man, paraplegic. And God, he folded the team. The team did not go through. So I moved to Redding, Pennsylvania, where the coach stayed at,

started living in the basement, started coaching the ASI Panthers. My defensive line was the number one defensive line in the league that year. It was absolutely amazing. I love coaching. And, you know, throughout the season, I left. I said, I got to get out. I can't sleep in this basement. I'm going to go over to this hotel, just thug it out.

I'm going to sneak around in the hotel. Just thug it out. I'm going to sneak around in the room. Fucking cold as hell in Pennsylvania. I said, I'm going to sneak around in the hotel. I'm going to sneak around. I'm going to get. I was at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel. It's a historic hotel.

Downtown Redder, Pennsylvania. Al Capone, everybody that been through there, bro. It's been balls, all kinds of stuff there. Probably hunted, for sure. So I'm in there every night. and I'm sneaking in, sneaking in, and then one night I get caught. I had to go out, and I slept out by the Turkey Hill gas station. One of the principals that saw me coaching at the game saw how I spoke to the players,

said she liked how I spoke and said, can you come speak to a group of athletes for me? Five young men. I ran an intermediate high school. It was a high school where most kids can't function. So I went and spoke. Within five minutes, they was in tears. I walked out the school, getting ready to go commit suicide. It was the first time I was ever talking about my story.

It was, like, amazing what I felt. It's scary at the same time what I felt telling my story for the first time. And when I went and told it, I was walking back five minutes before I got to the hotel, literally commit suicide, bro. Literally, I was going to do it on my mother's grave, bro. And she called me and said, well, how much you charge to speak? Five minutes before I got to I was walking back to the hotel. How much you charge to speak? I said seventy five. One hundred dollars.

Went back to assembly of 500 standing ovation you fast forward nine years from then from today uh over 900 million views on youtube number one football speech in the world platinum spoken word album um history in milan no i can't make it up there's nobody but god bro i use nothing everything got, I got from my voice. It's by speaking. You practice this a lot? Like, are you, I mean, you must be thinking about it a lot. You walked in here and you're like, this is giving me ideas.

I actually don't. My manager tell you, bro, I'm one of the most unorthodox speakers you'll ever see, bro. I could be chilling. I could be doing anything. But God, it's like, it's my gift, bro. I can't lie to you. It's just like Jay-Z freestyle all his messages. It's my gift to do this.

I'm a storyteller. And I know how to speak to the next generation. You know? I know how to get their attention. I know how to hold their attention. And I know how to simplify some of the most complicated things. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And a lot of people are buying into things. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

And a lot of people are buying into that. Like I said, I got to go. I'm changing motivation. My motivational albums, I plan on having motivational concerts with smoke, music, not just that boring seminar talk where you just, oh, oh, oh. I'm talking about pure motivation. I'm talking about they don't want to bring their bench press to the event. You hear me?

That's the type of events I'm creating. I want the new. I tell everybody, man, y'all focus on recreating the wheel, baby. Who we creating the new? We got to create the new. The world is looking for something it's never seen before. And every single human being got something in them that the world has never seen before yeah if you go to a concert especially with somebody that's really talented you're inspired and moved and motivated like you can't

help it yes right so that's how i look at motivation it needs a new fitness and shout out to all my fitness guys around the world man i i had i had an idea man um and shout out to all my fitness guys around the world, man. I had an idea, man. And shout out to all my fitness people worldwide, especially my brother Mark. I'm sorry, guys. I got to get in the gym. I got to get in there and start lifting them weights again because the community of weightlifters

and training the people that's training all around the world, man, you guys inspire me so, so, so much. One of my favorite stories is the story of the guy that created Five Hour Energy. His story is absolutely amazing, man. And when I look at his story and I look at fitness, it's something like, it's the same thing as bodybuilding. You know, I get a little bigger, come. You know, I get a little bigger,

come back next year, I get a little bigger, and I come back next year, I get a little bigger, I get a little bigger, and then he started off with these small little packets, these small little cups of this juice,

and he started coming with the whole thing. One day, if you take one bite and one sip at a time, baby, you will become the whole drink. You just got to keep biting. And I tell people the only way you're not going to make it is if you quit. That's the only way you won't make it. Eventually, that kid that's sitting in that garage shooting that podcast is going to be a big star.

Because he's going to keep going when everybody else is going to stop. That's what people don't understand. You think you're not making it, but it's somebody debating quitting and it's going to put you in front of them. Somebody going to quit. Somebody going to give up. Somebody going to get hit by life.

Somebody is not going to be able to operate in chaos. You got to learn to operate in chaos. My whole life is chaos, but look at this smile. Stunning. I'm happy, man, because I'm breathing. Look at all our brothers.

We lost during the pandemic. Look at all our friends we lost in life so far. Like, why are we not happy? Why are we not enjoying this moment, beautiful, small little moment that we got on earth to do whatever we want to do and make it happen? I tell everybody, cut the rules out of your life, man. The first rule is no rule. I ain't got no rules.

Only one made my rules is God. They written down. They written down. I remember I was telling you I was doing a cooking show a little while back, teaching people how to cook. That was rule number one in my kitchen was that there are no rules, no limiting beliefs. That's what I actually got that from Philip Klein in Italy, man.

That was his logo is his slogan for the event. The first rule is no rule. That's how i started the event in italy what was this event because you mentioned it a few times so what was this event this was how come we're not going to italy man this was actually my long fashion week i was like I told you I was at that apartment Floor caved in My first apartment So you know I was hurt

I loved it It wasn't the nicest But I had it Hooked up in there Why the floor caving? Bro just old It was just old I guess I was the last

It was like No you ain't gonna make it It was a lot of It was a lot of dreams chased through these apartments. But you're not going to chase yours. So they shut that whole thing. That whole thing is wiped out. But, yeah, man, I was sleeping in the back of the Taurus.

And I got a call, man, from Italy, man. Phillip Pline's sister was like, yo, we want to fly you to Italy. I hang up. I didn't even believe it was them. And then they called back. And I seen the crazy number. It was like, wait, we want to fly you to Italy. I hang up. I didn't even believe it was them. And then they called back, and I seen the crazy number. It was like, wait, we want to fly you to Italy. So I'm like, okay, okay, okay.

I said, so what do you have on these? I saw you a motivational speaker on YouTube. We love your voice. We want to get you over, and you speak live. Craziest thing in the world. This was the craziest experience ever. So I ain't believe him still. I was like, all right, all right.

He was like, send me a picture of your passport. I'm thinking it's a scam. I'm like, I'm not about to send you no picture. But I'm like, shit, I'm outside in the car. I got shit to lose. I sent it to him. Man, about 10 minutes later, 15 minutes later, he sent me back a ticket to Italy. I'm like, oh my god.

This shit is real. So I get out there and I I get out there, man. They pick me up. I was looking like a guy who floor just came, dude. Oh, man. They dress me up, take me to it. It was literally like, bro, I was like a poor man. I walked into the rich world, King.

And I went over there. They changed my clothes, got me clothes. I got the stylist to line me up, get my hair cut right. You're trying to play it cool the whole time. I'm used to being ushered around from the airport into these nice hotels and wearing nice clothes.

So look, this is I'm going to tell some dumb told stories with this stuff, man. Listen. So I go down there, I get down there, the chef blew my bag King. So I asked Philippine, this is how I know you rich. I went down. I went down. I was like, hey, what are we eating, Phillip?

He said, whatever you want. So I was like, how's whatever we want? I was like, what do you mean? He was like, go tell the chef whatever you want. Man, when I say this chef went in there, it made me anything. I asked for lasagna, bro. I said, I want some turkey lasagna, man. Let me get some turkey lasagna.

He was like, coming up. And it comes so fast. I'm like, is it aliens back there? Like, how is this food? Where are they getting it from? Yeah, how is this food coming? And everybody else was just eating. I don't know what it is about Italy and over there, bro, but they love sweets, like little pastries.

They eat pastries all day long, bro. I'm like, bro, but they're skinny as hell. I'm like, bro, like why are you? Their clothes are like extra medium. It's like totally different from America. Lots of walking, yeah. I was like, bro, this is crazy. So, you know,

I finally found something I could wear, which was a little jogging suit for the event. We get over to the event, man. This is a never told story. Never told story too, man. So I get over to the event and I put on they got me this dope little

I call it the blade coat it was like the blade had a Gucci long designer designer jacket

now I realize they was trying to make me look like Blade so they had me they really did that oh man they're like

we got Wesley Snipes coming no cap I finally realized what they were They really did that. Oh, man. They're like, we got Wesley Snipes. God damn. No cap. I finally realized what they were talking about. I don't know about that. Oh, that's great. Like, here, throw these sunglasses on.

You're like, wait, what? Like, could you hold this sword the whole time? Like, what? I don't get it, but okay. Why did I have to stare off into the corner the whole time? Dog, listen, that coat looked just like the coat. But guess what? The only thing it had, I had a hoodie.

I had a hoodie on it. There you go, man. It was a hoodie on it. So it looked just like that. But I had a hoodie on it, man, and I love this jacket so much. So Phillip Plyne had a great idea to turn the stage into a nightclub after it was finished. It was the dopest thing I ever seen. So the backstage, it had a gym, a whole ring inside of it.

And, like, it was just set up like a gym. And after the event, everybody came from out the stands and went up into the party mode thing. But I worked. I was like, yo, these are some nice-ass clothes, fella. I kept telling them that the I worked I was like yo these are some nice ass clothes I kept telling them that the whole night

I was driving having a couple drinks I'm telling them like bro this is some nice shit do you let you keep it so I'm like look I told my driver

to put my bags in the car before I came to the event I just went to the airport and it flew out I was like where did those clothes go I just went to the airport and it flew out. I was out of there. Where did all those clothes go?

I was out of there in Philadelphia. They were so drunk. They were so drunk that night, man. I'm walking through there and I'm not, and I'm not, I'm trying not to drink that much. So I got my whole piece of cubes. So my driver, my driver is smiling, bro. The whole time he was like, you want me to put your bags in the car? I said, bro, the whole time.

He was like, you want me to put your bags in the car? I said, yeah, put your bags in the car. Because the driver is like, he's from the trenches of Italy. He's not from the suburbs either. He's like, okay, put your bags in the car. So I put the bags in the car. I'm driving out. He's like, nice outfit.

Nice, nice, nice. And I was like, thank you, brother. Thank you. So I get to the airport. I literally see a couple of the other designers that was in the thing walking through the terminal while I'm leaving. I throw the hood on like blades. Went on home, man. $10,000, like 15 minutes, man.

Wow. That was the first time you made that much money, I'm assuming, from a speech? That was my first paid event. What? Yeah. Nice. Holy shit. That was my first one.

And what a great experience. Yeah. Getting all that travel in and everything. Oh, man, I tell everybody, don't ever say thank you to me. Just FYI, don't ever say thank you to me, because God, I am having the time of my life inspiring the world, man. It's like, literally, man, I got to pinch myself. I am so

blessed, bro. I can't lie, man. I don't say that because I'm the richest man in the world or none of that. I say that because I found my purpose. I'm rich, man. I found my purpose. I go to sleep happy every night. I'm getting to meet amazing people like Mark and my brother.

Shout out to my manager, A.J. Brown, man. I'm working with a great team. You know, just finally learning. You know, I was talking to my manager, A.J., the other day. We was talking about, you know, finally making it and, you know, you building it on your own. It's a kid out there that's going to miss out on an opportunity. And it's something I'm not talking to you from me just telling you something, telling you something that I'm working on. You know, you got to allow people to help.

You got to allow people to have an opinion. people to have an opinion, you know, and allow people to work out things that you may can't see that will be beneficial in the future. When it comes to clothes, I want to talk to the younger generation on how you present yourself. on how you present yourself. It was an episode on Boy Work Empire. Al Capone was escorting this Jewish man around. And as he was escorting this Jewish man around,

the Jewish man kept calling him a boy. And Al Capone kept getting mad. This is a true story. Al Capone kept getting mad. The reason why Al Capone changed the way he dressed. He called him a boy too many times. And then Al Capone got mad and said, why the hell do you keep calling me a boy? And the Jewish man replied, as long as you wear the hat of a boy, you'll always be perceived as a boy, whether you believe it or not. And it was the believe it or not part that really touched me.

It doesn't matter what you believe. Everyone else is perceptive. Yes. Yes. Mark, that's what we got wrong. This generation believes people give a hell about what they think of themselves.

We don't care. What is the world echoing of you? What is the world echo? If somebody was to tell you to sell a story about yourself, it's going to sound beautiful every time. But let somebody else tell your story and see if it sound the same. That's the distinctive difference. And the people that can let somebody else tell their story and that story still sounds good, they doing all right for they self.

So I tell everybody, man, dress for the occasion. Today I got on a hat, Dickie shirt, designer jeans and Jordans. You might see me in a three-piece suit next week. You never know. You got to dress for the occasion. Dress for the moment. Dress to where you want to go. They say dress for success.

I'm going to be honest with you. I'm a multimillionaire. I'm walking around. I'm looking for some great brothers to bring some impact to the world. I'm not getting nobody who's dressed like the biggest rap artist in the world. I need somebody who's universal. I also want to tell somebody out there listening, when it comes to, especially, just like weightlifting, don't get mad when you lose. Jim Rohn said it best, increase your value. That That's all you got to do is increase your value.

The most beautiful thing you could ever get is a rejection. Hey, okay, you said I can't cut Joe Rogan. I want to go on the Mike Tyson Hot Box podcast too. But the best one I did is with my brother Mark, the Power Project. This is the one I always remember. You got to remember the one who was with you before you was everything. Because one day everybody going to beat down the door. But these are the relationships on the come up is the greatest moment in any career.

And I believe Mark can say, I bet Mark got so many memories as a young kid walking into a gym anywhere around the world, walking in as the baddest man in the room. Mark, I... Took a while. So Mark,

that's what I want to ask you, Mark. What does it feel like to walk in a room with all these strong men and they all know that you're the legend? I was just explaining to my son the other day uh we went to a concert uh maybe like two years ago and there was a crazy amount of people there i don't know 50 000 people there and i said not that it really matters much

but it does feel nice to know that i've outlifted every single person here. It's kind of a cool thing. And then my son did his first jujitsu lesson like a week ago. And I was like, if you advance in jujitsu, if you become proficient at it, like in SEMA is, you can also recognize, you can handle yourself against any one of those people, maybe not multiple, but you can handle yourself against any one of those people, no matter how big of a crowd you're in. And I think that is a special and a very empowering feeling. And I think one of the things as a man is to investigate that power, work on that power, work on being strong, and also have the intelligence not to use it like a barbarian at inappropriate times. it like a barbarian at inappropriate times.

Right. You use it. You use it if it's needed. You have the reserve to use it. But you're not just baited by temptation. That's what weak people do, in my opinion. Yes. And that's so amazing because I never heard, you know, I heard about, you know, jiu-jitsu fighting and all of those things that, you know, you control.

It's like controlled chaos. You got to be able to control that chaos. And it's different from hearing it from somebody whose background is really in lifting. And that's the same mentality you got to have as lifting because I realized as a football player, when I was big as shit, around you know you know just bigger than the average human being you know sometimes when I got off the field I couldn't turn it off well one thing that you don't realize being a bigger guy and being physical like you were you don't recognize how many people are in this world that go around fairly scared every day they're scared that someone's

gonna inflict pain or trauma on them especially if they got beat up in school right if you're skinnier person you've always had trouble like andrew's had a hard time gaining weight i think that people don't understand that's a very real yeah internal battle that a lot of people have that's fair that's fair and i think it's i think it's something that need to be taught to athletes as well, man, even when these trainers building them up to like that. Like, man, you know, people like us, we should exude more love than, you know, that heated negative energy, you feel me?

Because it scares people like me. My voice, bro, you don't know how many times in every Manhattan's moment when you're talking to your wife, she says, stop yelling at me. And you're like, I'm not yelling. This is my passion. This is the way I was born. So I get in trouble with work because my voice is so fucking strong.

They call the police if I'm arguing about a fist stick. You hear me? A fist stick down here. She's like, we're not making a YouTube video right now. Relax. Hold on, man. Hold on. Police.

But yeah, man. But for me, man, like I was saying before, I'm the blessed one. If anybody watching this podcast today and, you know, you've been listening to me for a long while, you've been listening to some of my work, I just want to tell you thank you for listening to a kid, you know, that started in a shelter, you know, that had little belief in himself, was really depleted. And at my lowest point, God lifted me up to my highest. And the way that I kept going is by doing what he asked me to do, is by serving and not worrying about the money, worrying about the purpose.

Yeah, you mentioned not taking money for your dreams. I've heard you talking about that and also talking about a lot of people have a broke mindset, how being broke isn't just a financial issue. It's a limiting belief system that erodes kind of your whole life sometimes. So when I say don't take money from your dream, I'm saying don't sell your dream to anybody. Hold on to it. Build it yourself.

Because a lot of people, they want to go fast, right? But the best things is done by taking your time. And for me, I don't never want to sell my likeness. I don't never want to be on the front of a... What if it's for $500 million? No, I'm just kidding. Clip that. Clip that right there.

That was amazing. It's always until, right? There's always a price where you're like, oh. It's a quick, right? It's always a price. It's a quick double take. 500 million? Yeah, yeah. I can create billions of dreams. That's right.

Hey, guys, I just want to tell you, I told you guys don't ever sell your dream, but, guys, if they come for 500 million, take that deal, because you might not get another deal like that to get on the table for a very long time. But man, to be honest with you, I got a master people mentality, man. If they didn't pay me $60,000 per show,

imagine what I could make on my own. You know? Like, it's all about, because if I make more on my own, I can help more people.

Nobody can control what I want to do for my people. I got to do it. You can control what I want to do for my people. I got to do it. You got to take the slow route. Ownership is a power in ownership. Ownership means you make the rules. Yeah, if I pay you, then I might say, hey, I don't want you talking about God,

and I don't want you saying anything. You're like, what? No, that's not cool. Literally, bro, there's people out here so sick, they got so much money, they'll pay you to stop spreading love in the world, bro. They'll pay you. They'll kill you to stop.

Miles Monroe is one of them. They'll kill you to stop. People don't understand. When you speak life, it don't got to be about racism and bridging. When you tell people that they have everlasting greatness in them and they start to believe it, you become a target, brother. I've been in Detroit getting off the airplane, bro.

Guys chasing me in a dark car with guns pointing out the window, bro. You get what I'm saying? I have the ability to speak things in codes to people. And some people can't understand it. You got to be able to speak a decoded language. That's why I tell people I'm a motivational speaker. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm an activist.

I don't even know if I'm a motivator. I don't know what I am. You get met with resistance sometimes, maybe from parents if when you go to some of these schools? I'm going to tell you, parents never. Parents love me. Parents just, I'm keeping it 100. For the

average suburban, you know, white kid, they looking at it like, damn, I got it good. Message received. The black kid, damn, I'm living that. Message received. So it goes with everybody. And what I realized is that's why I want to introduce my book, The Best Gifts Come From The Bottom, to schools all over the world for a new curriculum. The Best Gifts Come From The Bottomulum is a curriculum about teaching kids how to tell a story.

By telling your story in my story that I told you guys, it saves your life. It saves your life. So when I walked into that school and told my story, I never thought in a million years that I would start to feel that type of pain. So if you create a class, a classroom setting where you get with students as a teacher, you help them create their stories because they all have one. Give them a tangible product before they go to college for the kids that ain't going to never get no care packages.

Put your tangible money on Amazon. Let those kids sell a book, get their residual income. And some of those kids can take care of themselves off that book if that book really good. But on top of that, these kids learn how to tell their story. So while the kids are telling their stories, we've got counselors in the room watching the body language. What did that kid say that shocked his body, that showed me his pain and emotion on his face? That's the part we've got to go heal.

Yeah, if you're going to write about your life, you're probably going to cry. You see what I'm saying? So by enabling doing that, not only that, we bring down the rate of suicide amongst younger kids. We create a tangible product, a tangible project that they can sell and have them a published author before they graduate high school. And then on top of that, bridge the gap between racism because everybody knows even playing sports. When you talk to a kid on your team,

you might not, he might be white, Hispanic, Chinese. He might be anything. But if we see that our stories relate, we are brothers for life. That's why telling your story is an important course in the education system.

It will help the teachers understand the students. Oh, yeah. The students understand the students. And then you'll probably see some change. So that's why I couldn't read until I was 16. This is in Barnes & Noble right now, self-published. This is a, and Noble's right now, self-published. This is a... Where my number at?

This is my social security number. You see the ISBN? Self-published. This dolo. You got to believe me. I believe in the most impossible things and go after them. That's the way you got to be in this world. You got to have big dreams,

baby, at all times. Dream big and that's the only you got to be in this world. You got to have big dreams, baby, at all times. Dream big, and that's the only thing that'll keep you alive. Thinking small is not going to want you here. You ain't going to want to be here. When you think gigantic dreams, even if you don't reach them, you still reach

some level of greatness. So that's what I'm going for. I'm going for the number one motivational speaker. I'm sorry, the greatest motivational speaker of all time. That's my goal. And to save billions

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they hear that somebody's a motivational speaker some people are like oh that's that's not a big deal motivational speak oh i'm glad you said that but the thing is is everybody has such negative self-talk that that's why like people love listening to that because literally your voice is now playing in their head every single time some shit happens rather than their own voice that would typically tell them

to give up or typically tell them to just fuck it all. It's that voice that's changing the way they speak to themselves. It's a big fucking deal. I got to tell you this. I got a message. I'm going to do it right here on the Mark Bell Power Project.

I want you guys to know all you millionaires and guys that trade and do all this stuff and get all this money. I'm happy for you. But let me tell you something. All of y'all are a damn lie when you say you were never motivated. Every dream that was ever created was created with motivation. It could have been motivation by money, but it was some kind of inspiration. Nothing comes before inspiration.

A baby can't even come without inspiration. So don't dumb down our genre and what we do for the world because your dollars mean shit when you cross those gates God don't take dollar bills he take resumes what's on your resume part millionaire what you do for the people millionaire what's on your resume, part millionaire?

What you do for the people, millionaire? Because if you die right now, millionaire, nobody will remember you. They just going to say, thank you for the money, Mr. DOA. That's the truth. You can't buy no legacy. You got to earn that shit, huh, Mark? You can't buy no legacy.

That's why a lot of those trainers and those workout guys love me, because they know you can't buy this. They'll be buying arms and legs and shoulders all over the world if they could. But that's what's so special about bodybuilding and lifting. You got to earn this shit.

As soon as you walk in the room, some of the workout gods, they're going to look at you and say, you ain't the greatest. All those guys that walk around grunting in the gym. It's always a bad wolf howling somewhere around the world. So stay humble. But like I said, you can't buy no legacy. You got to earn this. And that's what I realized.

That's why I don't get discouraged. Can't nobody defeat me. You can't defeat me. You ain't going to be better than me. All's why I don't get discouraged. Can't nobody defeat me. You can't defeat me. You ain't going to be better than me. All you can do is do your part. But I know if I bring something to the world nobody ever seen before, you can't recreate it. It's the reason why God gave me all these messages in my heart and my brain.

Because you can't steal the copyright. You can't steal no paper. The only way you can get it is through him. It's all in me. So when I give you a message, it's's gonna be a one-on-one it's gonna be a one-on-one only one of them i think for people that listen to motivational stuff or try to listen to motivational stuff and then put it into a category of stuff that they don't need i think they just really need to try to give it a chance because from an outsider, when you're not in that, it can seem corny.

It can seem phony because you're on the other side still. You haven't progressed. You haven't entered into this kind of warp zone and you haven't bought in on the idea of self-belief. But once you start to get just a small fraction of that, that's when you start to find your YouTube feed. There's more and more and more motivational stuff. I listen to motivational stuff pretty much every day. And I have been for the last like 10 years. I don't always feel that I need it, but it's there if I do. A little inspiration. I found

that some people, I'll share something from like david goggins or someone like that with somebody and it just doesn't land on them the right way at that time and i'm like if you can get past the fact that he's kind of yelling at you and just like listen to the words listen to the actual words you start to dissect it a little bit and you recognize like this is really powerful information and if you can't benefit from it then i think that you're maybe missing you're missing some of the picture because it's really phenomenal not just him but there's many other people too and i think a lot of people ask me this question i've been getting this question a lot in la me and aj it was like well, what do you think that, that really, really, really,

really separates you from a lot of people? And I can tell people it's going to be a heart. A lot of people don't realize I don't, I probably read about two and a half books my entire life. It's two more books than me. Listen, listen, it's something about it. Like, it's like, you know, it's, it's two more books than me. Listen, listen, it's something about it. Like, it's like,

you know, it's, it's like, um, original creativity. Everything is drawn from an empty canvas. And I realized what we put in our minds, it taints our masterpiece of what we're painting.

And sometimes we add what another man would have added to the painting. When we were supposed to add what we wanted to the painting. And then when the painting is all the way complete, we look at the painting and we realize that doesn't look like me. So when I create my motivation, when I come up with things like only in the womb of a woman can a man breathe underwater. When I come up with all these quotes that nobody ever heard, it's because I let nobody touch my canvas. Only God paints on my canvas. And when you read other things, it makes you think like they think. It makes you do what they do.

But God gave you a different journey. We all got our own life. He created you to give the world something that you have, something that the world has never seen. But because you wanted to be a carbon copy, you will never see your original copy. And right now, the motivation that the world is getting, the motivation that the world is getting the inspiration that the world is loving is an original copy it's mine belongs to me and god what you got over there andrew i'm just getting fired up so a bunch of different things going through my head but you kind of mentioned this earlier with the uh when you're speaking to kids about not having having their dad around and be like well what would you

rather have but something that happened to your dad you know with his brother it's like how do you tell somebody like because we talk about all the time like dude how long are you going to blame the high school coach for not putting you in the game how long are you going to blame your dad for leaving how long are you going to blame x y and Z for why you're not successful, for why you're gaining weight? You know, all these other things that people want to tie one tragedy to. So how do you tell somebody to get over that one thing that, you know, again, it's their identity now. I'm going to tell them, I'm going to tell them, I'm going to tell them, fly or die. Fly or die. Just like the eagle. Everybody love the eagle story.

The eagle, when the baby eagle was born, they just throw the eagle out and they say, hey, eagle, fly. Spread those wings. Or eagle, die. That's what I got to tell everybody in the world right now, bro. Right now, you're a bleeding individual. You're hurting. You're bleeding. You're laying on the ground.

But guess what? The world's about to walk right over you, brother and sister. You look for so many people to change your life. It's only going to start with you. Until you learn how to take responsibility for everything that comes with your life, nothing will come into your life. You got to be addicted to this. Whatever you love.

I tell everybody, you addicted to cocaine? You addicted to be addicted to this. Whatever you love. I tell everybody you addicted to cocaine. You addicted to marijuana. You addicted to alcohol. You addicted to all these things. But when are you going to become addicted to your dream? It got to be an addiction. I'm addicted to this. I wake up at four or five in the morning on West Coast time.

AJ, I tell you, I'm up early moving around rumbling because I'm addicted to this. I wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning here on West Coast time. AJ, I tell you, I'm up early, moving around, rumbling because I'm hungry. I'm addicted. I know that I only got one life, and the moment we spend feeling sorry for ourselves, we taking time off. How long you going to take time off? How long you going to keep blaming individuals for something that you did? Because a lot of people spend their whole life blaming another person and it's only until they land on their deathbed that they realize it was they fault. And that's selfish.

Apologize. Somebody out there just need to hear that word. Apologize. Somebody out there just need to hear that word. Apologize. It's a man out there that likes to abuse his wife and do all these crazy things. Just tell her you hurt my feelings. I learned this. You're not a man until you can control your emotions. You must arrive above the thinking of your emotions into the thinking of God. What's that song? What's love but a secondary emotion? It's emotions that split husbands and wives up. It's emotions that cause bad relationships with fathers, daughters, and sons.

Give a fuck about no emotions. I love you, son, daughter. But I'm telling you now, kings like us, we can't walk around in the emotional state because that's how we die. You die when you're in an emotional state. It's a lot of young kings out here murdered in these neighborhoods

because they couldn't control their emotions. They couldn't just say, I'm sorry. They couldn't let that kid go that ran off with that $400, $500. Who said $400, $500 is worth a person's life? The same individuals that walk around the earth as a boy. How can a young man ever know what a man is if all he see is boys and and old-ass men dressing like they 30. I don't know what you are. I don't respect you. Back in the day, when they used to walk around in their suits,

all the young kids, the mafia kids, all the black kids, everybody, Bumpy Johnson's everybody, when they put their suit on, those kids said, hey, that's a man. Now, when that grown man walk in with the same shoes and jeans, they like, that's a boy? That's the problem. We need more men to show young kings what a man looks like. And that's all I represent. I just tell them it's cool. Do you know how hard it is to get people? It's hard to get millions of people to listen to motivation.

You see all those motivational people pages? That's fake, man. That ain't real. Do you know what it takes to get a million people to listen to you talk positivity? All that shit is fake, man. The likes, the views is fake. You know how hard it is to get this generation to listen, brother? It's like pulling the pin out of a, what's that called? A pin out of a haystack. Yeah. It's hard to get somebody to listen to motivation. or peeing out of a haystack. Nearly.

It's hard to get somebody to listen to motivation, especially in the black community, because we ain't never listened to self-development. A few of us listen to Les Brown. But when you ask an average black person, you go into a neighborhood and you say, yo, you know what motivation was speaking to you? They're like, what?

Rapping? You're like, what? Oh, you go into a neighborhood, you say, yo, you know what motivational speaking is? They're like, what? Rapping? You're like, what? Oh, you were talking. Because we taught in our neighborhood, what? Talk is cheap. No, talk is life-saving. So then, how do you change that narrative?

I'm doing it. Being original. keeping it 100 going to the trenches going to the hood the more successful i get the more slums i go to the greater i become the more countries i visit i went over over to Kingston, Jamaica, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and I slept there. Right there in Tivoli Gardens. I didn't sleep in a hotel. I slept in a in a gazebo that the Don, which is a gangster, built for me before I got there. You'll like this quote. It says man will never find God

because he won't look low enough. Mm. Yes, I did love that one. Yes, I did love that one. And what I learned in Kingston, man, I learned if this floor was my bed, to smile and be thankful.

That's what I learned. There's little babies right now running around in Jamaica, Africa, all over the world with no tennis shoes. No clothes. Nobody ever tell them they love them, no warm bed, never slept on a bed. And we got the nerve to sit over here and act like we got it bad. My air conditioning broke.

My Wi-Fi is not working that fast fast i spent that time in them trenches man i showered and took a bath out of a bucket went down there got my water every day and took a bath i ain't gonna lie the last three nights i got me an airbnb but i was there for two weeks and I was with the people every day. I spoke in places. No other speaker in the history of speaking has ever spoke. I got the ambassador of peace award in Kingston, Jamaica.

It's about six months ago. Spoke there two, three times already. When I spoke, the people followed me through the street. Thought about the story my mom used to tell me about Moses. And it's a song by the legendary artist Big Sean, my boy from Detroit. And he says, one man can change the world

if he changed the world with the world. That's what I added to it. You can change the world if you change it with the world. You got to have your people staying next to you, not behind you. You got to give people a voice. The downfall to every organization that ever was created

was because the person never gave his people a voice. And once you take a person's voice away from them, you take his life. That's all a person got to communicate. That's all a person got to communicate. It's deep.

You got to give them a voice. If you hold that in and don't let them bring their voice to the world, they're going to rot everything around you. They're going to start coming for your organization. They're going to start thinking about ways to tear you down. That's what happened to some coming for your organization. They're going to start thinking about ways to tear you down.

That's what happened to some of the greatest leaders. The hardest thing to be is a leader. A lot of people say leader so loosely. A leader will sacrifice his for his team a leader have a 20 foot foot long and it's only

and it's a hundred of his soldiers in the room and guess what a tomato fell out the leader gonna eat the tomato his team gonna eat the bread cause that leader was born with it. He was born for it. And by doing that, without having to force

yourself on them, they give you the respect. That's why I tell everybody, like I talk to my dad, my dad say, say Will you could have been one of the biggest heroin dealers in Detroit with your mentality because you know how to lead people young men love you

that's what my father said but he said Will I'm going to tell you one thing that our neighborhood never had he said we had hit men we had killers we had robbers we had all of these things

but guess what Will we ain't never had an international motivational speaker. And that was the greatest words my father ever told me. He said, you made history for us. A lot of us make a history for our family. We might not make history for the world, but we make history for our families.

Change the demographics and the way they view our family. And all it take is one. And the rest will follow. How does a person change within themselves? I think that was part of Andrew's question was like, he knows that you're going and talking to all these places that are unconventional but how does the individual like what maybe maybe like what actions or what things you think would be important for someone to focus on get rid of negative talk get rid of negative people like I don't know what's some of your take on that for for me it's all about understanding who you are you got to know who you are. A lot of people walking around, what's your heritage? Where are you from?

What's your bloodline? What are your people known for? That's where it starts off. I think a lot of us is walking around as people that don't know who they are. I know who I am. I know where I'm from. If you knew what tribe or what army or who your great-grandfather was, maybe you'll start to look at things a little differently. I tell all my young brothers when I go speak to the slums, I say,

you are nothing more than unconscious. You don't know your history. You don't know your culture. You don't know where you come from. You don't know that you're you don't know your culture, you don't know where you come from, you don't know that you're an original lover and giver. So if you don't know yourself, you got to take time to learn yourself. And a lot of people,

they're carbon copies. That's what I said in the beginning. I said what they did was they lived a whole life, chased somebody else's dream and said in the beginning. I said what they did was they lived a whole life, chased somebody else's dream, and it didn't work. And now they're depressed. That's your fault. That's your fault. Because you wanted to be like them

instead of loving who you are. Everybody want to dress and look like somebody else. That kills you. And another thing, they lie to themselves. They lie on the internet, pretend they got a life that they do not live. And when they laid out at night, they realized that I am nothing. I lied. And to lie to yourself

is like putting a 12 gauge under your chin and blowing your brains out. Because you realize this fantasy that I created is never going to come to life. Then you don't want to live anymore. But guess what?

God got a reset button. Guess what? Every day. It's an opportunity to repaint your picture. So if you had a bad day yesterday, take that portrait, rip it up,

throw it in the trash can, pull out a new blank canvas and start painting what you were born to do. And you'll finally see the picture for your life the first step and the only step is letting go of the human being you want to be and grabbing the person you were born to be. That's the difference. Happy.

I think that's why it's so powerful where you mentioned like having kids write their story. Like having kids like, you know, if there's something you're trying to do, lay it out, write it out so you can see it and you can envision it and you can head in that direction. But if you're just going through, scrolling through social media, looking at other people's stories, it's like you'll never be able to head in that direction. Absolutely. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. And I tell everybody, everybody got a story out here.

Everybody's story is an extra battery pack for another person's life. Somebody didn't live your life. Somebody going through what you're going through right now. And you got the strength to get them through it. Open your mouth, man. The kingdom is voice activated. I don't tell nobody you can't do this. Everybody could do this. Everybody got a voice. And I'm telling you now, the most biggest fulfillment you get out of this industry is going in and speaking to these people, seeing all these people that have been through the same thing you've been through, and you just look up in the sky, you realize, damn, I ain't having that bad.

I'm going to be okay. And all these people I'm riding, we're going to ride with me, and we're going to be okay. So everybody that I talk to, I'm talking to myself. Y'all just happen to hear it. That's it. Try talking to yourself and see how powerful it is. They call you crazy. Ask yourself questions. They call you crazy.

But sometimes in the neighborhood we grew up in, the only inspiration we ever got was for myself. That's why they call us cocky and arrogant. Because we grew up with no parents ever telling us they love us or nobody ever coming to the games. So you get that athlete that brag on himself all day, but you really don't see the inner, inner, inner kid that just wanted his daddy and his mama at the game.

But now he's a big NFL star and he don't love himself. He still don't love himself, but he's so talented. But the number one thing he wanted the whole time was the love of mommy and daddy. But now he's what? Terrell Owens. That was Shaq's story. You feel me? Shaq was like, you're going to know my name.

You know, he said that to his dad. So you got to understand. That's why I'm so impactful with the new generation. Cause I know it's like, I know God gave it to me. I've been through it. I lived it. I know what they're going through.

I know why you cocky. I know why you got that attitude because the only person ever said they loved you or you was the greatest was yourself. So how the day are you going to tell me to stop talking about myself when I'm the only one to save my life? None of y'all did. I did. That's how them athletes think.

Ain't nobody telling them they love them. They just tell them to go jump, go dunk the basketball, go run the football, go play football, even if they don't want to play it. They got to do it because this is what the family says. There's a lot of athletes right now that didn't want to play football, great athletes, but they did it because they had to save somebody's life.

Talk about in my football game, some people play the game for Gatorade and cheerleaders. Some people play the game because they got to save people's life. They got to be the one. So if you don't know about having to be the one, you ain't going to understand my motivation. If you don't know about your life on the line,

you might not feel my motivation. If you want real, if you don't like real, you ain't going to like my shit. Because I'm going to be 100 every day until the day I die. You can throw $30,000, $40,000 at me and I'll throw that shit back in your face. I'm worth billions, baby. You can never buy me.

You can't buy no legacy. Say it again. Would you say, uh, so kind of going back a little bit about changing narratives and that sort of thing, but like United States, we got like the most like depressed people like on the planet.

And we also have like the most money on the planet. We all have it very, very good. So is the answer simply perspective does somebody have to go to another country to experience so much less to come back to be like shit i do have it good is it as simple as just changing the perspective of somebody to get out of this uh weird depression that we're all in we're all in but a lot of people are in when they have literally everything that you could ever ask for,

but yet they wake up in the morning sad. Well, for me right now, when I look at all the people right now, man, I see even like for instance children. Remember back in the day we'd go to the store with a dollar, we can get a bag of chips, a juice, some gum, and some 9-Liters or something like that. We'd get a lot of stuff. Now, man, these kids, they go to the store, man, with a dollar, all they can and some Nylators or something like that. We can get a lot of stuff. Now, man, these kids, they go to the store, man, with a dollar.

All they can get is a pack of gum. Like, it's a hard life for people now. And the television, the thing that tells lies to your vision, is the thing that's killing us more than anything. That's the number one. Music and television. Music and television is the world destruction. So now you got individuals that know they write promoting music that's talking about killing each other.

You're going to get it. You're going to bump your pump a kid up so high in the media and he's going to pump out negative information and cause stress amongst the human race. Now, then you're going to come back with a mass shooting at a high school that's going to scare every kid around the United States, going to make them scared to go to school. He don't even want to be out here. He got PTSD. What's it called? PTSD. PTSD.

He got all of these things, and you want him to function in the classroom all day. The world is in pain, brother. We need a whole deep programming of what's going on in the world, and the only way it's going to change is if all these trainers, all these motivational people, all these people come together. One thing about the world right now and the state is saying we all going through the same depression, man. We are being attacked by our own government. How are we supposed to feel?

How are we supposed to feel? We're being attacked at home. when the object was to protect us. When in a million years have America, now you can say what you want about America, it's been so many different cultures and so many different groups and so much, so many different evils, but one thing about America,

America always fought for their people. No matter what it looked like, they fought for their people. And I can say it with everything in my body, our government

is at the weakest it's ever been. We depleted. I love you, Sleepy Joe. But damn, Joe. This shit is made for the young. The hungry. The innovators. It's time for the new.

Because what happened is the old did not appreciate the young. If you don't take care of the future, sleepy Joe, the future won't take care of you. That's how it goes. And now we got people with outdated ideas for the world running it. It's like the kids that they – we had our grandma and granddad house. Like, granddad, you know we can do this shit way faster, but I'm going to do it your way because I know that's how you like to do it.

That's where we at right now. Okay, I'll help you write that letter instead of just doing a quick email or text. Okay, I'll help you write that letter instead of just doing a quick email or text. So when I say, man, that question got so many layers on it, man. And I tell the people, I'm not mad at the people, man. Y'all doing a great fucking job in the pandemic that we in. People, families, people still fighting, but people still dying too. The one thing I would say is, as a message to America and a message to the world, man,

we're fighting each other while other powers are fighting us. And that's what we gotta stop at some point we gotta turn around collectively and say you're not my enemy they're my enemy and until you realize that you're gonna stay in this place and until you realize that,

we're going to stay in this place. We're going to stay in this place, man. We literally are at a war with each other, with another war coming at us. They used us to distract us from the problem and we fell for it but now I'm reminding you I'm telling you if you don't turn around

when you do turn around there will be no more land, goods, food, services available. The only way we can live, our grandchildren, our sons, our daughters, is if we come together like yesterday. We got to come together like yesterday. We got to come together like yesterday. White, black, brown, yellow, orange. We got to come together. We got a good mix in this room right here. We're human beings, man.

That's all we are. We are human beings. I got a message this morning. AJ, my manager got a message and he was reading it. And his nephew back in New York, kid called him monkey. He called him a monkey. All the way at 2022.

And only way a kid can say something of this nature is if he heard someone that he respects say it. So I got to give a message out there. This is on my heart, and this is from King Hollis. For anybody to ever meet me, work with me, come around me. You people is considered the N-word to me. You people is considered the N-word to me. Monkey

is considered the N-word to me. Animal is considered the N-word to me. And all I can say is, I am not Martin Luther King. I am the Django. So whatever you think, any races or anybody that feels some type of way

about pushing this terrible narrative out to the world, because give it up. There's white and black kids mixed. Oh, I got cousins that's white and black. Who are you hating now? Your nephew? Racism is real. They just learn how to deal with it a little better.

real. They just learn how to deal with it a little better. So what I say is everybody that stands against racism, everybody that got mixed culture in their family, make sure you represent and you stand up for your family. Make sure that full-blooded white grandma and grandfather

is sitting next to her mixed black grandbaby with pride. Or vice versa. All that is dead, people. We are, God has shown us over and over that we are one. And it goes into the correlation of coming together. We got to come together. We got to love each other.

We got to know who we are together. Because if we don't, man, I know, Mark, the years you lived, the journeys you took, I know you've seen the world change a lot, brother. Mm-hmm. I know you've seen the world change a lot, brother. And one thing I used to, I used to always watch these legendary bodybuilding and lifting videos. And one thing I noticed about it, I noticed so many different colors. It was always a brotherhood. Even back with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Yeah. It was always a brotherhood. Something that separated us from from color something that we all can love together i remember the day after the george floyd thing i came into here and one of our white lifters is police officer yeah training with one of our guys that's black and i'm like that's powerful it's not does you know what i mean like it's just cool to see yeah and i just you know i just want i want

i want people to know that you know when i talk about racism i realize as a human being as a grown-ass man i realize that everybody got a little racism in black white orange yellow everybody using it some type of way and we might not not realize it, but we're using it. But what I realize is, man, why fight with somebody that's going to the same place that we're going when we die? You're going to fight here and love each other in heaven? You're going to hate each other here, but love each other when you're going through heaven to be on your best behavior.

And a lot of you guys, I got to tell you this, and it's deep. Judgment is real. You're living your life. You're living wrong. You're hurting people. You're not giving anything to humanity? Where do you think you're going when you die?

You think you can think hell away? It don't work like that. You got to earn your seat in the gates, my people. And the number one way to do it, you might ask, this is the coaching class you need to get, is serving. Serving will change your life spiritually, financially, all angles, it will change it if you buy into the process of serving the people.

Mark Bell created the Power Project, a gym that is free to the public. When he told me that, it blew my mind because I have a dream of creating my own boys and girls club that's free. It's called Kings and Queens United. Of every low poverty area in the world. Where they learn how to tell a story. Learn how to do trades. Learn how to be licensed trainers. Barbers. I want to give a young man, a young woman a trade that they can use forever. And I just want to tell everybody out there, man, if you're ever in Sacramento, man,

you got to stop by this gym because it was one of the most inspirational experiences I ever had in my life. The number one thing that touched me the most, like I said, was the free. Fitness is not just training. It's for mental health, man. It keeps people alive. A lot of people, if they didn't have this gym, they probably wouldn't even be alive today. How powerful is that?

Andrew, I sent you an email. If you can pull that up. If you go like 20 seconds into this clip, I don't know if you know that you do this, but when you're getting real fired up, you start to make this little snarl, and it reminded me of the movie Rocky when Rocky shows one of the other fighters

how to have a snarl and how to have this look like he's about to get into a fight. How far in? Maybe like 20 seconds in. It's a short clip. It's short, so it's fine. A good snarl. A good snarl. That's your face right there.

You see his lip? Yeah, that lip starts to move. It's powerful. Yes, sir lip start. It's powerful. Yes, sir, man. But, Mark, man, like I said, brother, from starting the shelter eight, nine years ago, man, not having much, bro, I'm truly honored to be on the show, man. It came a long way. And I hope we can work together and inspire it and bring people together for a very long time for a very great cause.

Like I said, man, this is like one of my favorite shows I've ever done because it was real. The questions were deeper than what's usually asked. It's just about the story. You guys can imagine how many times I tell my story a year. But the most important thing I got out of here today was a true brotherhood and a lesson. A lesson to go after everything you want, you know, everything.

And, uh, Mark Bell, man, thank you for all you do, man, for the people, man,

and what you do for the world. Okay. I appreciate that. Andrew, want to take us on out of here? Absolutely. Thank you everybody for checking out today's episode. Please drop us some comments down below.

I know you guys are fired up for today's conversation, so I want to hear everything you guys have to say and, uh, make sure you guys like today's, uh, episode and, uh, people already left and went to the gym. I know, right are fired up for today's conversation. So I want to hear everything you guys have to say and make sure you guys like today's episode and people already left and went to the gym. I know. Right. Yeah.

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My Instagram Tik TOK and Twitter's at I am Andrew Z and SEMA. Where are you at? And SEMA and you on Instagram, YouTube and SEMA union on Tik TOK and Twitter. And make sure to go find the discord. Where you at? Nsema Inyo on Instagram, YouTube, Nsema Inyo on TikTok and Twitter. Make sure to go find the Discord, because we're over 2,000 members in Discord now. So, go find that. Where can people find you? Where can people

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I got Pain and Purpose, The Darkest Hour, Hustle and Motivate, and a collab that I did with a motivational channel, Vibo. Shout out to Vibo. And Fearless Motivation albums, Motiversity albums. channel vibo shout out the vibo um uh and um fearless motivation albums motiversity albums um i'm everywhere man on spot if i just type in william hollis and uh subscribe follow like it's youtube as well william king hollis just lock into everything you want to book me uh follow my uh manager aj brown uh lock in man

williamkinghoollis.org. Book the day. You mentioned your mom being, I think, probably the most motivational person, most pivotal person in your life. But was there any of these other maybe speakers or maybe influences out there that really motivated or drove you at any certain point? Miles Monroe. I got to look them up.

Miles Monroe. Miles Monroe and Les Brown. certain point miles monroe i gotta look them up miles monroe uh miles monroe and les brown have you ever had an opportunity to share the stage with les brown never had an opportunity man a lot of people don't know uh les brown suffers from um he has cancer so that man's a soldier he's been motivating motivating and inspiring a lot of these people around the world with cancer. So I want to give a huge shout out to Les Brown. He actually reached out to me while he was in the hospital getting a blood transfusion on one of my speeches called The Journey. And it starts off with, we didn't come this far, we only come this far. And he said it re-motivated him in his spark to really go hard speaking again, because it's not over until it's over. And, man, like I said, he did a, I got a, what is it called,

a documentary on YouTube with me and him. I got him in the studio recording on the way I record. And I would like to give Mark a freestyle speech. Everybody know I freestyle my speech. I want to give Mark and the Power Project a speech before I leave. Go for it. The Power Project started by a king with only a dream. A dream to lift life over his shoulders and be the greatest version he's ever been.

His first name is Mark. Last name is Bell. That's what you will hear when you'll walk through those doors and hear those weights clinking. You see, that dream is born at the infant stage, the stage where nobody believes in you. And the only person that knows how great you are is God.

You see, it takes time to become the greatest version of yourself. Trial and error is necessary to grow and be one of the greatest the world has ever seen. to grow and be one of the greatest the world has ever seen will take blood, sweat and tears and years of pain, trial and triumph. But I ask you a question today. I ask you, are you a gladiator? Are you a chihuahua?

That question can only be answered by the grind. The belief in oneself to be greater than where he was born. The power project. You won't ever forget it. Woo! Shit! That was amazing. The weird thing is I was going to say the exact same thing about you.

No, I'm just kidding. That was incredible. Thank you so much for that. Thank you. Just on the fly, huh? Freestyle everything, baby. Can't wait to go strangle some people now. We got to go.

Let's fucking go. Go. Go get his book. Make sure you check it out. What was the name of the documentary on YouTube? I think it was called Les Brown. Just put William K. Hollis and Les Brown. I mean, William Hollis and Les Brown. Documentary.

Alright, man. Thank you guys so much for coming out. Oh, I forgot to ask. How'd you meet AJ? Man, I met AJ. AJ was an inspiration. He is an inspirational speaker. A very inspirational guy that I was working with. He bought into the process. I actually was working with him in coaching. I was coaching him.

And I went down to New York. I flew into New York. All the coach clients I work with, I fly in and I work with them. But something about AJ, AJ was a person that liked to serve. And a lot of people don't know, I built my whole brand without a team, without anybody. And, you know, I can go out and get some of the top guys and some of the most popular

guys, but I believe in kingdom building. I like building mine from the bottom. I like people who love what I do. And I want a person that represents and works with me that loves and appreciates what I do. So, with that being said, I believe that good product needs no gimmicks. I'm good product. So I gave it to my brother to move around and I only move around.

It's a beautiful thing. Help feed families and build a business that helps a lot of people. I know I got a gift that can help. You know, I travel, make $60,000 a show. And what's what's 15 20 percent you know to my people aj come on up here for a second yeah aj shared with me something pretty cool i think it's cool that uh he has his own little bit of a background story that i think is good for for him to share because you guys have uh both have dealt with a lot of hardship

so if you can kind of get up on the mic. You said you were incarcerated for a couple years, right? Yeah, wow, yeah. Can you get a little closer? Sorry to put you on the spot so hardcore here, but I think it's cool that you're finding like-minded people. I like that. Will and I, we have a lot of common history when it comes to our lifestyles, right?

I went to the military, right? Served my country. Combat medic. And my brain wasn't right, right? And I went to a point in life where my trauma from my childhood came up. And when you don't actually address that, when you don't speak as a man, right? When we're taught not to speak we're taught to just run it out

you're a man keep going right and when I got out of the military my brain wasn't right okay I remember how many people died around me I remember the eviscerations I remember who didn't get to come home and they were over

prescribing me. And I got into one big fight. These things right here, they consider them weapons now. And I hurt somebody. But I did the best three years of my life. I got to be quiet. Got to think. And I got to write my story out and keep on writing it out.

And I'm back in California again for the first time since I've been released from incarceration. Wow. I'm on stage with you gentlemen. That's how you know God is good. And when you actually put your story out there, that's your testimony. That perseverance that you work through, and you can actually laugh about it.

Don't cry about it. Like Will said, what are you going to do? You going to fly or you going to die? Right? And when you only have you because you're the best thing that's ever happened to you, now I got two little boys. I got a one-month-old at the house right now. Right?

But I got a purpose right now. I got a purpose to get this message out. I got a purpose to tell people about my boys. Because I didn't grow up with a dad. I grew up with a strong mother. Right? Just like the rest of us here. Sometimes we have to remember who we are.

There's that New York accent. Right. Fucking beautiful. Tell our three-year-old selves what's up. Right? Tell your three-year-old self, hey, you got this. It's okay. You know, when I tell my son, stop running, it's not because I don't want to see him run. Right? But how often do we forget, stop running, it's not because I don't want to see him run. Right?

But how often do we forget to tell ourselves, it's okay. Self-love, self-compassion. Right? And Will and I met. And this is how we started kicking it off. He said, AJ, man, you're bigger than just a speaker. I want you to help me out. Because I see your vision.

I have vision. How do we collaborate this? And here we are today on the Mark Bell Show, you gentlemen. God is good. However you're looking at it, universe, you know, whatever spirituality you're understanding, understand that there's something bigger and greater than you. So keep on going towards it. Keep that goal in line.

The vehicle might change. But when you have your story and you have your goal, when you write it out, you tell the best kids come from the bottom, look where you get to stand. William, let this guy sleep every once in a while, all right? You guys are probably all fired up going around the country together. Hey, Jay, man, tell them about our new book we're about to drop, man. Yeah, so Will and I, Anxiety and Me, right? So we're going to do a self-help collaboration of books.

So let's talk about our feelings. Let's talk about that anxiety first. Let's talk about habits, how your anxiety builds your habits, right? How many times you go through a traumatic experience, that becomes your habit now, right? That's how your habits are really taught, is about that negative nonsense. But know your habit loop.

You can still have the same results. Just change the routine. Come on. Tell your three-year-old self again how easy this is. Right? So now we're going to build out books, self-compassion, right?

And now we're going to get this message out to people. Hey, man, you got two brown and black brothers over here who know what it is to struggle. And honestly, you know, racism is a thing, but like Mark and I were talking about earlier,

the disenfranchise is a thing. Don't matter about your damn color. All right? Because if you're in a part of that disenfranchise group, no matter what color you are, you're eating the same ramen noodles. Hold on, one more thing. Hey, I love you, wifey, Sharita, Hollis.

I love you. I love you, babe. Shout out to her. Take care of me. Yeah, right, right. thing. Hey, I love you, wifey, Sharita, Hollis. I love you. I love you, babe. Shout out to her. Take care of me. Yeah, right, right. Might better have Brittany. Thank you for being home with us. You guys just don't want to get in trouble.

Oh, man, we were buying flowers before we left. What are you talking about? We're making sure that they understand we love them. Thank you guys so much for your time. I really appreciate it. The thing that you said about eagles, I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but I think it is from Les Brown. He said about eagles, I don't know if you've ever heard this before,

but I think it is from Les Brown. He said, when an eagle soars at its very highest, you know what else it sees? Only other eagles. We got two eagles right here. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate it. I'm at Mark Smelly Bell.

Strength is never weakness. Weakness is never strength. Catch you guys later. Bye. That was a good story too. Yeah. thank you guys