Mick Unplugged - Unveiling Sharkgevity Secrets with Daymond John

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

Daymond John is a legendary entrepreneur, investor, and television personality best known as the "People’s Shark" on ABC’s Shark Tank. Rising from humble beginnings in Queens, New York, Daymond is the founder of the iconic apparel brand FUBU and has become a blueprint for business success, mentorship, and resilience. Facing and overcoming challenges including a lack of formal education, dyslexia, and even cancer, he now advocates for health, entrepreneurship, and personal development, sharing his hard-earned lessons with the world. His commitment to empowering others, authentic storytelling, and willingness to pay his knowledge forward makes him one of the most respected and influential leaders in business today. Key Takeaways: Find Your "Because": Go beyond your “why” and dig into your deeper motivation—your “because”—to truly understand what drives you both personally and professionally. Be Cautious with Scaling: Whether in business or life, don’t rush to scale or spread yourself too thin; take time to learn the lessons and build a solid foundation before growing. Prioritize Health and Longevity: Daymond’s health journey, including fasting and biohacking, shows that investing in personal well-being isn’t just a trend—it’s a transformative, lifelong pursuit that can inspire those around you. Sound Bytes: "The more things you own, they own you. Not because I want boats… I could buy a boat—I don’t want a boat. It’s irritating." – Daymond John "Mentors are only going to tell you three things: don’t scale too quick, don’t spread yourself too thin, and don’t take in money or partners too soon." – Daymond John "The most powerful thing you can ever do in your life is walk away—you at least leave with your dignity." – Daymond John Connect & Discover Daymond: Website: https://daymondjohn.com/ Instagram: @thesharkdaymond LinkedIn: @daymondjohn Facebook: @TheSharkDaymond YouTube: @TheSharkDaymond 🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥   Mick Hunt’s BEST SELLING book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers.  👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million   FOLLOW MICK ON: Spotify: MickUnplugged Instagram: @mickunplugged  Facebook: @mickunplugged YouTube:  @MickUnpluggedPodcast  LinkedIn: @mickhunt  Website:  MickHuntOfficial.com Apple: MickUnplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, please join me and welcoming the man, the myth, the legend, my mentor, the blueprint. That's uncomfortable. The people's shark. That's uncommon. Mr. Damon John. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. It's not uncommon.

So, let's see what an intro, man. My first question I asked on my guess this is, what's your because? That thing that's deeper than your why. Like, I'm sure your why is your family, your employees. But there's a reason there you're your why. I don't think I've been ever asked because. What's your because? So I guess my why, like you said, it will be family.

but what that's a good question so I guess the because forces you to say well I'm doing this because right right ease into things that in my condo's perspective right but in fasting I you know I usually talking me about a year six months to a year to ease into things so fasting we'll get to this beautiful piece behind us there was a conversation you posted on Instagram I think when you ate like a year old turkey leg or something from the freezer. Two. Two year old. Two year old.

Why? Why not? Why not? All right, let me break it down to everybody here. Let's like my wife who's like, that's a leftover. Walk away the most powerful thing you can ever do in your life and you at least leave with your dignity. You feel comfortable about the situation and you go, it's not here because I've decided that it's not here. I left everything on the field with them.

I'm cool. There is. There it is. This is Mick Unplugged. Let us uncover the because, that thing that drives you, that thing that fuels you, I'm ready if you are. Let's go. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to what I'm going to say is the most personal, the most guided episode of Mick Unplugged in the history of Mick Unplug. In the history.

In the history. In the history of Mick Unplug. Growing up, most people wanted to be like Mike. I wanted to be like today's guest, the way he moved, the way he built, the way he made us realize that it's not how you start, it's how you finish. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming the man, the myth, the legend, my mentor, the blueprint. That's uncomfortable. The people's shark, Mr. Damon John. Thank you, man.

Appreciate it. It's not uncommon. It's a series on an intro, man. Because that's what you mean to me. I appreciate it. I'll start lying. We don't, we don't have time for lies. but truly when I was 16 was when I fell 70 47

okay so I have a six nine years on you like six yeah nine years on you okay I'm sitting and I see this magazine and I see you when you're not an actor you're not an athlete you're not an entertainer and I realize at that moment that I could build business At 16, I wanted to be an attorney. And I thought that's what I was going to be in life, was an attorney, right? But when I saw you, I realized, okay, it's about owning and building business.

It's about creating wealth. And then I got to meet you many years later and see all the great things that you're doing. And so my first question, I asked, oh, my guess, this is, what's your because, that thing that's deeper than your why? Like, I'm sure your why is your family, your employees. But there's a reason there you're why. I don't think I've been ever asked because what's your because so I guess my why like you said it will be family but what that's a good question so I guess the because forces you to say well I'm doing this because right right I've never read that before I appreciate that you ask all you guess that absolutely my because is because I should and now that because question makes you go deeper right yeah I should because I've been given this opportunity by God. I should because I've overcome so much.

I should because other people aren't doing it the right way that or more people should be doing this. What is that, right? Alertness of things, empowering other people. I should because I'm setting the terms to the way I want to live. Not let me get a little, man, I'll be here for about an hour. Not because I want more money. Because the more things you own, they own you.

Not because I want boats. I could buy a boat. I don't want boats. I don't want seven homes. I can Airbnb. I don't want a staff of 200, 500,000, because somebody's going to be treated unfairly because of their gender, their color, their creed their lack of education, right? Because somebody else is going to want to take their credit and they're going to push them down. And these people sometimes are not going to be able to feel like they are a reward of what they've done personally or they didn't get there because they didn't do this.

They're going to say it's the system. So, I mean, I think those are the things. Those becausees are really powerful things, you know. I don't think I've ever been asked that before. Thank you. I love it, man. I love it. So you talked about you've overcome things and not to make it personal or even to talk about all those.

It's the most personally you want. I don't care. No, but it's what I've always appreciated about you from afar before I really got to even know you was life is never easy. Right? As business owners, as business leaders, we start the year off with an amazing plan. But by the third week of January, that plan is usually going out the door. 100%. And that's what life is like for you.

So what are a couple of the things that you've overcome? And then I'm going to talk about the Lexus story that the Lexus story. Overcome. Well, you know, what I have overcome? I want to make sure that I manage people's expectation. What I have overcome is nothing comparison to those who may be living in the Middle East. right now. Or also maybe living here

who grew up with abusive parents or not enough food on the table. So what I've overcome is child's play comparison. I've overcome, you know, dodging the literal

bullets and the figurative bullets in the community of not having the internet and these things and only trying, only seeing things like drug dealers around me and saying, well, that's,

that's success. Because the people in Queens They got on the train in the morning They went to the city to work You didn't see them There wasn't no social media showing them They looked like just people in suits Yeah

But they were doctors and lawyers They were feeding their family They went to the ideal toy factory Where used to be around our house They were blue-collar workers You didn't see them All right So I dodged that concept

Of fast, life, easy money I dodged the concept Once I started making money What is you're supposed to do with it was supposed to buy houses, houses, cars, do drugs, and, you know, be like some of the people we see today on the news, taking advantage of that power that they had because that power is addictive, it's a drug. You know, I've overcome that not having a formal education, being dyslexic, walking in a room and people are automatically doubting me or my perception

that they already doubt me. It doesn't mean that they doubted me. Yeah. Microcept, oh, because I'm, because I'm this. Every person could walk in the room and say, I'm this. Wealthy people walk in the room and say, well, you think I got it easy. But, you know, I think all the trials and tribulations like we most of us have done, you know, finding that healthy balance, knowing your why and being very honest with you about your why. Mm-hmm. I dig it.

Cancer. There we go. You have it on the shark Jevity shirt. One of the things that you've got me doing is fasting. Look like you lost a couple pounds. More than a couple. I have been. And I was surprised at how easy it is, but you told me, Mick, you're going to fail.

I'm surprised at how fast you, no joke it is. No, like, you're supposed to go intermittent fasting, intimate fasting, intimate fasting. We were sitting one night, you were like, all right, I'm done eating for a moment. How long did you, that one night, you stopped eating for how long? 40 hours because that's what you told me to do. I didn't tell you to do it 40 hours since it was doing 40 hours. That same thing. You told me to do 40 hours.

What were your mama say? Somebody jump off the bridge. You want to jump on the bridge down? What's wrong with you? You're supposed to slow into it. Yeah, but my mama didn't tell me to jump off the bridge, though. You told me 40 hours is what you did. And I said, I know, nobody do 40 hours right away because you're going to fail.

You're going to get mad at yourself. You may not have the durance. I mean, he's a very special individual. I'll get to him one day, maybe today. He's a very special guy. He built a little bit different, a little, which is great. But he just went, yeah, basically, what do you say? You can only do two things.

Two things at a time. Every time I talk to him, if he's like, I'm fasting, he's like, thank you. He just walk off. And he'd come back. He'd come back. Fasted already. He just, he's just off. But that's a great quality you have.

Again, I focus on two things at a time. You said, fast. So I did. And then you said, oh, by the way, here's some supplements you can take that I'll help you do it. And then you gave me some blueprint. Like, just dream black coffee. I don't drink coffee, but, or I do, but now I do dream. It helps you do it. All the little things. So that version of you, the, and you go in. But I'm the absolute opposite of you. I ease into things that in my kind of a perspective, right? In fasting, you know, I usually tell you me about a year, six months to a year to ease into things.

So fasting. We'll get to this beautiful piece behind this. It took me about two years because it's a bigger concept art. Shargevity. That took me many years. I'm the kind of person that, you know, it's almost like when I go shopping or not shopping. When I'm out and I see something I like, I don't buy it. I go home.

If I can't stop thinking about it, maybe I'll buy it. And it has to go, I have to stop. I can't stop thinking about it for a while. You seem to be able to just turn it on. Now, once that point gets that I'm turned, it turns on, I'm on. But I'm on only because I tried to rip that thing apart or think about it a hundred different. Do I still like this? So I really like this?

What am I doing on? And once I'm on, that's it. No failure. Straight. Okay. appreciate that and I think for me it's because of what you meant to me in my life that when you tell me something

I just like you know I've restored that but you're going to end up like in Guyana with Jim Jones if you tell me don't whatever you do don't don't follow this advice no but but Shark Jevity man like it's one of the the things that for the last three months I've really been trying to to dial into my wife won't let me do the the what is the methylene blue because you

told her it's going to like stain everything so I was on board so you said that and now I can't do it I don't want a problem with the wife man because that's that that's that's that's that's the real boss but what made you go in on your health and all the things that you've transformed not just for you but the fact that you're sharing it with the world I think that it took me a long times. So I had cancer, and I always tell the story of I started to think two things. So winding it down, don't, you know, do I really want to fight all this stuff? You know, I got great kids, great wife, you know, let me just sort of want and enjoy that time with them. And if it's five years, 10 years, you know, like most of us, man, I don't, you know, stick it in the sand. I don't, you know,

I'll try to fight it, but, you know, there's nothing I can do. But if everybody could do something, why do all these people have cancer? Right. That, that's, that's, you know, that's, If it's not this cancer, it's going to be that can. And then I like anything, like whether I started, remember I always tell people when you start a business and your body is your business, you got to just do more than anything else. You do your homework before anything. And much time you can in your homework. That doesn't cost you anything but time. Time you're a valuable thing 100%.

But if it means anything to you, whatever you're going to do, then time is it. Whether it's time to understand your faith a little better, understand this woman or this man, understand this child, right? So I started to look into it a little bit more. And thank God, technology was just coming around. I'm starting to look at more feeds on my, you know, social. I'm starting to see people with real resolutions. We've always heard, wow, you know, roots and this and that can solve. Anything created, something can solve it.

But now we didn't have this 20 years ago. I want to see real people that have survived cancer. Real people. Like, and not one, not two. 40, 60 These people don't know each other They're saying the same exact thing Wait a minute

There's something in now Add that to I'm starting to see a bunch of other people Say this is killing you This is killing you This is killing you Showing real things How die number five is killing you

Showing you things that we're realizing We're being tricked We're being And then me being the chargots All of the money I get it I get it. I'm going to put out something. I'm going to try to be healthy,

but I'm seeing all these people who are unhealthy are eating it, Twinkie. Who am I to tell them what to eat? Yeah. All right. And by the way, government, let me make sure you're good. Right. Let me sell more Twinkies. Yeah.

If they want to eat healthy, don't buy a goddamn Plinky. I don't use the Lord's name in vain. But when I say that, it was about people, you know, not taking care of them. So anyway, I started going down and I started to do the little things to make these all, the changing of my life. And a lot of times we do these things, we take a pill and makes it feel better immediately. But I started to see a slow change.

And I just started feeling good about it. Now I have a partner. Let me tell you something about my wife. She's the worst person in my life and the best. All at the same time. I'll tell you why she's the best. I was drinking a lot. My wife never, and you know, a person like me,

a type personality, don't challenge me. Don't be like, yo, you better stop. You just gave me. She said, you don't ever got to stop. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside. So being a fan for life turns into the trip of a lifetime. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Pre-sale tickets for future events subject to availability and varied by race.

Turns and conditions apply. Learn more at amex.com.com. You just got to look what you're doing yourself and how is that going to affect your little girl and your family. That's up to you. and I slowly stopped right and then I started saying what are you doing because you've been talking to me about this but what are you doing and I started going down that path and she was open to here's what I'm doing do to your speed if you want you know they always have the right answers they always have the right answers they do they just have the right answers they do what was it's just like you open to it yeah yeah what was it when we were with Chris Boss at evening with the shark you said he gave you some advice or he told you something i went to chris voss top negotiator known for his FBI negotiations hostage very serious matters chris how do i negotiate my wife there's a difference between a terrorist and life terrorists are actually open to a negotiation my

wife has used that against me since she brought that up she's like so you know there's no negotiation and whatever I say. My wife, when she met with her, she was like, he's finally got somebody in his life with some sense. Absolutely, absolutely. So speaking of someone in your life, you wholeheartedly taught me the power of mentorship. You know, we started with game changer meetings

and then it just evolved into, hey, Damon, I need to pick your brain about this one thing. But I know that mentorship has meant a lot to you personally. Yeah. When did you realize that for you to get to where you wanted to be that you needed mentors in your life? No, I realized that when I turned around and looked at where I was, it was because of mentors in my life, right? The saying is you will only learn by two things. Your mentors are your mistakes.

Mentors can be in a book. Mentors, of course, could be our great, you know, underappreciated commodities in this country called the teacher. You know, and I just reflect on all the time that I have learned my first mentor. all of my greatest of my mother. But I just learned that that's what you know. And mentors usually are only going to tell you probably about three things. They're going to tell you in business it's going to be not to scale too quick, right? Not to move too past.

In your life, not to scale too quick. Learn the lesson, right? First step, second. They're going to also tell you to not to spread yourself too thin in business and in life. Don't have a million friends. you know and then there was going to say in business same in life don't taking money too soon don't take in partners too soon I don't care if you're a kid

I tell my daughter this and one of them did it the right way and one is in between about to do it the right way I always tell kids do not get married for from your 20s to your 30s Now, some will get married younger, no problem. I understand that. The point is what I'm trying to say.

And it makes them second, it makes them at least give it a good thought on if they're going to do it. Why? Because up until your 20s, you're somebody's daughter, you're somebody's son, right? You're going to live to 100, hopefully. So for 80 years, you want to be somebody's wife, mother, you know, aunt, grandmother. Just get to know you for 10 years. Wow. Now, that being said, if you find somebody a street,

super quality, you've come up with them, no problem. They'll wait. And if that's the type of person that they would wait regardless, then fine, get married, right? You know, no problem. But I'm really trying, you know, and what do you want to do then? Maybe travel the world, right? I don't care. If you want to go and be a party, I will go save the swimming pigs in the Bahamas. But until you really know yourself, you're very comfortable with yourself. Now, if you're the kind of person who doesn't want to be around a lot of other people, I get it, but you want that freedom to discover yourself because there's too many marriages. is that down the road, somebody said, well, I was in a career like this because my parents

told me to become a doctor. I hate being a doctor, but I would just rate, you know what I mean? You want to be a lawyer? Well, we're going up. You need to be a lawyer or a doctor. I'm not sure if you would have been happy as a lawyer. Maybe, maybe not. And so when I say that, I don't even know how I got to that.

It was about mentors, taking in a partner or taking in people and committing to something so much that you don't get to know yourself. Yeah. I want to unpack something you just said, though. So people scale too fast or they think they want to scale quicker than they actually need to, so slow down. Talk to the business owner, the business leader, even the individual in their life, about what you mean by don't scale too fast.

You know, well, everything has its own kind of, um, okay, so if I'm talking to a person, don't scale too fast. Well, if you have an opportunity to travel, you know, They'll scale your, don't change your life so fast, slowly change it, right? You know, 20% of this exciting thing you want to do with this person, this place you want to go, make it 20% and then it's slowly and it was 30, 40, right? You know, don't, yeah, gone. But in a business for sure, in a business, you don't want to scale too quick.

Because, you know, when I started food by eight stores I sold to in New York, I could have sold to 12, I could have sold 40 stores around the country. before really technology came around they always said that you need to have a business especially in your local business you should have all of your eggs within five miles of each other so you can easily utilize staff, travel, da, da, da,

now all of a sudden you get this one store it's like somebody who wants to franchise now all of a sudden they got two franchises in California and some of the different rules you're taking your eye off the ball the scalability of having eight stores and 12 stores you're not changing your life, right?

So if you're doing eight stores and every one of the stores are doing $20,000 a piece, let's do an even number, $25,000 apiece. All right, you're doing $200,000 out of the stores and let's say you're making a 20% margin on $200,000. It's approximately $40,000. Okay. Going and adding another eight stores around the country,

not going to relate to more of a net than 40 because now you're spending a lot of time and energy. It's eating up your initial eight and it's expanding you a little bit, but what you're not doing, you're really not figuring it out instead of just concentrating on that eight. I can say that when I was dating. I'm not a person who loves to date, you know, like one night stands and all that kind of wild stuff. I mean, you know, when food blew up and in between my first marriage and my second, yeah, I was single. Mm-hmm.

When I realized when I was dating a good amount of people, just seeing them, you know, all the places, I realized I wouldn't get any quality time with anybody. I was spending more time fielding calls and da-da-da-da-da. I didn't get any quality time. When I started to just really say, you know what? I just want to, I don't want my little girls to see me with a lot of other people. I never want them to think that there's something more important than them,

this and this and that. Let me just just even not talk to anybody. or let me just kind of concentrate on this small little, you know, one or two people and then put your voice out. I mean the great woman, right? Because I wasn't spread all over the place. Right. It's not about when you bring people in your life and business and everything else.

It's not that the fact that, you know, you want to change all that you start to change and you start to accept, I want to concentrate on this business, just do this for my customer. I want to concentrate on my relationship, just do this. you sought to become that person that you hopefully want to be. Absolutely, absolutely. So I want to talk about one of the most brilliant pieces of advice you ever given me. So the last few years, I've really been into investing, right?

I run businesses. And you said, you know, Mick, are you doing it from your heart when you're investing? Are you really concerned about MMH? And I was like, what the hell is MMH? And they were like, that's my money, homie. Talk us about why that is so important for new investors, even season investors, that you get caught up in the story that sometimes you got to remember you're investing for a return most of the time. Well, because, you know, investing is, and I'm the king of, like, if I had to give my own self-Shartank advice, I would have to change a lot of things. but I make a conscious effort of doing things where I'm doing it

because I just want to do it as philanthropic in my field and then it becomes something great. When you're looking at it from your money, like what is it? You know, I don't want to be Kevin Illyrian. Money doesn't lie. It's pretty simple. You know, and how are you, what are you really doing it for? If you want to do it for philanthropic reasons, fine.

You want to do it because you want to give people an opportunity. That's great. I see a lot of athletes who they go, and do these great what's it called charity fundraisers they spend a million dollars to bring a bunch of people out and they raise 700,000 why just give the million dollars away

you know to you know whatever a hundred different charities 10,000 apiece and you still get the notoriety but wanting to be somebody for the community but you didn't have to deal with traveling people from all around the country for whatever the event is and then you write it off on taxes

right you write off a certain amount right because the government incentivized you to do that. So again, what are you doing actually for? What is your money actually? It's my money, homie. You like, how my money worth it for me. The idea of a generational wealth is that you have this business, whatever it is. You put away your money as much as you can.

First of all, the first thing to do is you try to take advantage of the legal tax codes so that, first of all, you don't pay as much in taxes because the government themselves say foundations. I'll give you an example. I tell people all the time when COVID happened and the COVID bill passed, you got 100% right off if you supported a restaurant for a business meal.

Okay. You understand how it's working and people always get mad when I tell them this. I have friends who did their decent businesses, there's $500,000 in business meals because they travel. If you went to a hotel and you went downstairs and you put the meal in the restaurant, you had a big restaurant, you know,

and you had it for 20 people, you put that on a hotel card, right? That's a 50% rider because that goes underneath the hotel. If you just take out your credit card and putting it down, that's 100% right off. Right? So let's say you spend $500,000 on that. So $100,000, you gave away $50,000 by,

just not moving one car to the next. Time's out by 20 things that happen a year from the tax code. Right. So let's say you save an average of $200,000 a year due to tax codes. You didn't put that in your Bitcoin or your, you know, your bonds or whatever the case is. And so after 10 years, thinks about what that is, compounding and various other things. That's only $200,000 on what you save. We're not talking about what the business made.

Yeah. Right. You think about your business and that's what's supposed to happen. happen, right? Then you, obviously, you can go and you educate yourself. I know you're no insurance. You go get long-term, you know, health life, right? So that, you know, by the time you're seven years old, 80, if you want to go and get, you know, live in a retirement home, it's not $300,000 a year because you pay it ahead of time and it's nothing to you. But $300,000 a year, if you saved, you know, you save $3 million, you only got a 10-year runway. You can't even hand down to your kids. Again, it's all these financial things that you think about is my money, only, what am I doing? Yeah, yeah, I love it. I love it.

I actually should probably get Halel on here. You got to meet Halel. He's a great attorney about asset protection, about these type of things. I need to talk to impersonate, too. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Absolutely. And we'll get closer. Yeah, you're part of the crew.

I should have hit you up in a long time ago. All good. All good. But I am the most colorblind person in the world. I can't even draw stick figures either. I am colorblind. Oh, like red and green, struggle, light blues and purples. Oh, you're like a dog.

Pretty much. Pretty much. But you, sir, as we look at this amazing backdrop that we have here, have shark art. Yeah. One, let's give a shout out to the artist. And this artist is named, so this artist is named Daniel Mazzoni. I believe it's a Canadian, I'm not sure, or Long Island.

But anyway, let me tell you the story about this. This is a flag that was in 9-11. I believe it was either in a fire station or at 9-11. They salvaged and they got the flag. If you look at the arms, the arms are actual uniforms from men who were at, you know, 9-11 from the Brownsville Fire Department and that other one right there. And it's, you know, the, you know, justice, right? You know, there's some images down there and it's glossed over. And it actually, when it hangs, it hangs with the overalls of the fireman outfit.

It reminds up the 9-11, it reminds of its justice, you know, reminds up of the people. And I think, you know, the artist, the reason why I do this stuff about art, I love the art, but artists, I think, are our last people with free speech. And it brings to light so many things of joy and pain and suffering in our life. But the reason why I wanted to highlight ours, especially and thank you for putting this in back of us, is because I realize there's so many other things that we can do is people that doesn't cost us anything. You know, if I like Mick Hunt, I know he's doing a lot. Let me just tag them, you know, if I look at a restaurant, it's a small restaurant.

If you, if 200 people a day tagged the bodega that they went to because they had a great sandwich, just tagged it. Not just a sandwich, but tag it. how much how how how how how how how how how how how how how how would their rating go on yelp and barrage for the things and change that family's life it's a hard struggling family so what i did with um what i did with this was i realized that my i had backdrops dameanjohn.com look boring but a friend of mine say hey you know artists you know if you are if you're an actor if you're a musician and you're an athlete hopefully you get to the big big big stage, right? You get ABC, you get Netflix, you get NFL, NVA. And if you don't get to that level, if you get to that level, you have great management and all these people, if you don't get in the level, you may even work in the system. You may be acting coach. You may be a nutritionist or the NFL. You may be a broadcaster. You may be somebody who works on the team. Millions of positions. Artists will never have a position. And the addiction runs very high

in art, the art community. And so even if you don't get to NFL, you may go get a job as a stock broker or something else. Artists, no matter what job they get, they're always going to create art. And if they ever get anywhere, that somebody buys their piece, now they want them to die. So I said to myself, why don't I just start highlighting artists? And they will loan me a piece. I actually was sitting in here. I just saw randomly some other art up here.

I'm going to highlight those pictures, post them, and that's it, man. You know, hopefully. And if we all did that, you never know, one or two artists or five or 20 or 100 go, hey, you know what? Somebody pick up my piece. hey, I got highlighted in the museum. And that's it. It doesn't cost us nothing. Again, you do so much for people.

Did you know that this was who you were destined to be? No, I'm an only child, and that's why. I do so much. Okay. Because when everybody went in to play with their brothers and sisters, I had to find a way to convince people to stay outside and play with me. Hey, I'll let you play on my baseball. You like Tonka trucks?

I got three of them. Why don't you come home with my house? I got a twin brother. You ain't got no 10 brother. Why don't you come on over and see? Try the dog. Who want a grilled cheese sandwich? I can cook.

So, you know, I'll just try to find friends. Speaking of cooking, I'm going back into all my memory bait now. So there was a conversation you posted on Instagram, I think, when you ate like a year-old turkey leg or something. from the freezer. Two. Two year old.

Two year old. Why? Why not? Why not? All right, let me break it down to everybody here. Let's like my wife who's like, that's a leftover. Well, it wasn't a, it was a two-year-old leftover, though. That's a different.

King crab season is not been open for four years. So anybody here eating king crab legs? It's four years old. Hmm. Mm. I got to tell you something about food and all you people out there that's all prissy. Let me tell you something. You know that chicken, the nice of you go, oh, that chicken looks dated.

Right before that chicken rots, you know what they do? What? They cook it. Okay. And then they put it in this round rotissary and you go, oh, wow, I'll take that chicken right there. And right after that chicken that they cooked before it gets old, they chop it up and put it in gravy, and they put it in. So all of you people right now with worms, parasites,

I promise you there is some person in the background of that food trying to make a profit. And you're eating it like, yeah, I don't eat leftovers. Again, I'm fine with leftovers. Say right now, running into the bathroom. I'm fine with leftovers with two and four-year-old leftover. I'm fine with leftovers, but two and four years old. That's called dry age.

No, and they put on your menu. No. Dry age. Jerky? No. I've never seen dry age chicken on a menu, though, or turkey legs. They left out the dry age farm. That's called jerky.

No. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, I. So you can be passing for a week after this. I pretty much am. I pretty much am. I also want to let the viewers and listeners understand this because, again, you are my advice guru when I need something, because, again, I can only do two things max.

But I was building social media. And I said, damn it, man, I'm struggling on the content that I put out. I don't know if it should be under this brand, that brand. I don't know who I'm talking to. And you said, Mick, you're doing it wrong. You should always talk to five to seven people. And then you broke it down to me the five or seven people that you do all your messaging for and you don't care about anything else. I thought that was the most profound thing.

and it changed my whole social media strategy so much so that I know you don't normally charge for this but can you tell the people the five to seven people listen or not. So I have to only live with myself. Do my social media the greatest for everybody? No, not at all.

I know people out there who are I'm on, I'm on CNBC 40 times a week, I'll be on the view, I'll be on this and that. I got the same 1.2. 1.3, whatever, on each platform or LinkedIn is a little bit better. I'm not going to do anything unless mine will only explode

if another category or area I'm in, people discover me and they just like what I'm bringing to that area. The same way that I was a fulbu guy, but all of a sudden you understand that you think I'm the fashion person, but then I, you see I understand the concept and the fundamental members of business. Now the business audience find me.

Actually, the fashion audience doesn't really check with me. I'm cool with that. So I'll never explode or I won't explode past where I'm at. I've accepted that. And I don't want to because honestly, if I do something crazy out there and I explode, well, those people are short-stayed because I'm not going to do it again. Unless I turn it on there all the way and then I won't be happy with myself. So I'm pretty simple.

You know, when I post something, you know, I post something that I'm a spiritual person and I don't like to push my beliefs on anything, but would God appreciate what I'm posting or would he look at, you know, a negative way? Then the next thing is my family. Well, my wife would be at a grocery store and somebody say, you know what your husband posts? It could be anything. It could be something that disrespect for the women, disrespectful for religion, violence. Now let's get to number three.

The people that I work with, my staff, my team, ABC, I don't want somebody calling ABC going, oh man, this guy's, I happen to like some stuff that may be off color, we all do. But ABC, they're going to be like, is this your guy? You know, my staff, I don't want them say, I don't want somebody to say that I was this the asshole you work for every day?

This person said something else misogynistic. Are you crazy? You know, like, and then, you know, the next couple of people would be in their young kids or entrepreneurs who are looking up to me, And I shouldn't do anything that makes them feel like I'm letting them down. And then the forward-thinking ones are the ones who are checking for me. I want you to know who I am.

Chase, all these other people, all these big companies. This is what he's about. And the last but not least are the ones I want you to know why I'm because this is what I'm not about. Don't come to me and you want me to do all this and that because if you see all this, then I'm a hypocrite if I take your deal. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Amazing. Again, for everybody watching or listening, that strategy changed my life. And it's not even a strategy. It's just the way that I do things now. It's, I'm not trying to please everybody, but I also don't want to upset the people that matter the most to me. And so that really touched me. You know, you can be very, you know, I think people think that you have to be so hard one way or another. Like I was telling my staff the other day, I say, you know, we have a lot of opportunity out there. We can drown an opportunity. opportunity. That's my biggest issue, my biggest shortcoming. I want to do a lot of things. Now, I understand that. I know how to cut it all out of the way, but if I don't do a lot of things on my own side, well, I'm going to do it for Shartank anyway, because that's my obligation. So why don't I have some of my vested interest in this kind of diversifying of the portfolio? However, don't wait around for deals that somebody's taking you, taking two, three weeks, six months, and they're just messing around. This needs to be a, you know,

You want to do this or not? Yeah. Well, my lawyers are this and that. Well, then your lawyer is the boss. Because, I mean, you know, then I'm working for that person. Cut it. And so I say, I'd say, because why should you cut it? Well, they either don't value the opportunity.

They don't have money or the resources. They don't know what they should be doing. And at the end of the day, they're all, all of those people take a long time of these things. It's going to be the biggest pain. in the ass when you get married. Somebody is very complicated during dating. That was the best they could be. Oh, now you're about to really see their ass.

Yeah. Get out of it. It's okay. And you know when you get out of it? You know what happens? Like I said before, you make room for a new opportunity. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Are you willing to walk away? Walk away is the most powerful thing you can ever do in your life and you at least leave with your dignity. you feel comfortable about the situation and you go, it's not here because I've decided that it's not here. I left everything on the field with them.

I'm cool. There is. There it is. I know you're busy. I know you've been gracious with your time. I'm going to get you out of here on my quick five, five rapid fire question. All right.

From Queens, the greatest rapper from Queens is. Hello, Uncle Jay. Done deal. The best athlete to come out of Queens is. I wouldn't know. Kenny Anderson Kenny

I know Kenny, I know him all I know Ronald Tess I know them all I just don't know what the greatest The greatest athlete is Kenny Anderson you think

Yeah There's no famous like Like big big I'm talking like I have a statue Oh No No

Okay It got to be Kenny Anderson He wasn't a goat No Kenny's great Kenny's great Um

I know I know so many of them though from Queens Kenny Smith Yeah In the end, a bunch of kitties. Mark Jackson. I don't mark, too.

I don't know them all. I just forgot it. Yeah. I've never been heavy in his sports like that. But I know. I know. Fermanent pickles or fermented cabbage? Pickles.

All day long. When you come off a fast, what's the first thing you eat? Alicado. Told me that. I had to get used to it. I had to get used. Yeah, you don't want anything heavy. Yep.

The best advice you've received in the last 12 months. The best advice I've received the last 12 months. Oh, good question. So many things. Good question. The best advice I've seen in the last 12 months. It's something I already knew, but it's, it's cut more people off. You know, after COVID, I think we're looking at what's going on with people mentally after COVID, with social, with AI, come around.

People are screwed up in the head. And I think it's time to just cut as many as you can off and get narrow and deep because we're going to run around, we're going to run into some really big issues. and I think you need that really tight unit of people when it gets dark that you can rely on. If you get having 100 people, you have an army of three, you're invincible. Yeah, yeah. You taught me that too.

You taught me that too. For everybody listening or watching, what's one thing you want them to know that you have going on and you have coming up? Selfish, shameless plug for my mentor, Dame and John right now. Well, first of all, I want to talk about this, man. How to be a good leader. I want people to read that because that's important, you know, because, you know, leadership is important.

And when you learn this stuff, you learn a lot about yourself, right, how to lead. What I have going on? So I have longevity, where it is, you know, I'm just talking to people about biohacking and biohacking. That's a word for longevity. And why am I the expert in this? Because I'm the weakest person on the planet when it comes to food. And I have a horrible travel schedule. And I hope, I don't think I'm intimidating looking like a lot of these guys that I love and respect I get from, like scientists, like Gary Brecker's body.

I mean, guy looks like Superman, right? They ask for me, Dr. Amen. So what I do is that's the most important thing to me is to share with people the, you know, what longevity is how to slowly increase your ability to live longer. And the way I do it is by showing you my faults, showing you what I'm going through. And I always say, if I'm putting a hundred different, I'm probably putting 100 toxins, bad toxins in my body a day. We all are. If I can reduce that to 60, it has up. And if I can show people how to do that and then get people like you to say, hey, man, I'm going to start the fast.

You're going to go down your own rabbit hole of doing that. I highly doubt knowing you that you're going to ever go back. If you do it for a long period of time, you're going to start saying, this is part of my life. You would feel horrible going back. No, it is so easy the days that I'm not doing the 40 hours to do 18. Yeah.

Like, I don't even think about it anymore. It's like, try it again tomorrow, you pale. Right. And tomorrow, after that, eat a big ass piece of chocolate cake, eat whatever you want and reset it on Monday and just try again. There you go. Right? That's it.

There you go. That's what I think. So those are the two things. I shit a bunch of things. So first of all, art, Chargevity. And then I'm still, you know, the person,

I have a lot of, I have a lot of partners on Sharthank. And I, hopefully I'm the face of entrepreneurship and to show people that if I could do it, everybody else could do it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Ladies and gentlemen,

this has been my mentor, the legend himself, Mr. Damon John. Thank you, brother. Appreciate it, man. Oh, right. I get my head. There you go.

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