Motivation Daily by Motiversity - I WILL NOT LOSE - Best Motivational Speech Compilation (Featuring Eric Thomas)

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

ERIC THOMAS'S BEST MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES!ERIC THOMAS'S BEST MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES! Let them know that YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME with the Best Motivational Videos featuring Eric Thomas of all time! It's time... to leave your comfort zone, activate beast mode and go all in on your dreams! Subscribe to our channel for the Best Motivational Videos here: http://bit.ly/SubscribeHubSubscribe to Eric Thomas's channel for more: http://bit.ly/2ua2os4https://bit.ly/HubonMindsetApp 👈 Download Mindset app for free and listen to all the world's best motivational speeches. If you know someone who could use this video, share it with them! To get notified of new videos, click the bell beside the subscribe button! _____________Ways to stay connected with MotivationHub and stay motivated:▶Subscribe for New Motivational Videos:  https://bit.ly/motivationhubofficial▶SHOP Official Motivational Canvases and Apparel:https://bit.ly/motiversityshop▶BECOME A MEMBER of our loyal community!https://bit.ly/hubmemberships▶Follow all the Motiversity YouTube channels: https://linktr.ee/motiversity►Follow on Music and Podcast PlatformsMindset App: https://bit.ly/HubonMindsetApp_____________▶Speakers:Eric Thomashttp://etinspires.com/Eric Thomas, Ph.D., is a critically acclaimed author, World-renowned speaker, educator, pastor, and audible.com Audie Awards Finalist. ET, as he is better known, has taken the world by storm, with his creative, common-sense approach to living a successful, satisfying professional and personal life. Through a significant social media presence and regular domestic and international tours, "ET, The Hip Hop Preacher" has become a global phenomenon!►Follow ETYouTube: http://bit.ly/2ua2os4Twitter: http://bit.ly/2XxzLnvInstagram: http://bit.ly/2Tpp5ICFacebook: http://bit.ly/2UiUp91http://etinspires.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello listeners. Motivosity is excited to share that we have launched a new podcast called Morning Motivation by Motivore. If you are looking to start your day with positivity and the most uplifting motivational audio, this is the show for you. For today's episode of Motivation Daily by Motivority Podcast, we are sharing a recent episode from the Morning Motivation Podcast. If you like it, go follow the show. New episodes are being released every week.
Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. I want you to live the life you were meant to live. You hear me? Not the life that was given to you. I'm a high school dropout because that's the life my daddy gave me. But I've been married almost 28 years and two kids by the same woman, which is not my experience. I got brothers and sisters.
Starting point is 00:00:55 None of us had the same parents. because I made up in my mind that's the like y'all gave me humans do not transition to another level when they're comfortable with the level that they're on you only go to another level when you're on this level
Starting point is 00:01:10 and you eat out of trash cans and you say enough is enough when you live in the abandoned buildings in the winter and you say enough is enough you only transition from one level to the next when you tie to the level you are
Starting point is 00:01:23 you don't transition in life if you happy with where you are. And the problem with some of you is you happy being broke. You've gotten content. Just be honest when you walk out of here. Some of you are not transitioning because you're okay with the life you have
Starting point is 00:01:41 and I'm telling you, when I walk out, I want to be an example of you can start from wherever and get to wherever you want to get to. I was like, yo, it's time to go to work. I'm telling you, I've been thinking, I've been making calls, That's what I'm asking you to do. What fuels you? The reason why you're so lazy is not because you don't have the ability. You're so lazy because your dream's so small. Your dreams are so small. You study me on the internet. If you look at how I became number one in the world, you've got to take it all the way back. You can't start where I am now. You've got to start where I started. And the way I blew up, before I even knew I was going to blew up, is that I took every class series. That's how I blew up. I got to a professional. point in my life where I was like, yo, E, the gateway, the gateway to all success is through knowledge.
Starting point is 00:02:34 We're not talking about degrees right now. None of my degrees are hanging up nowhere. As a matter of fact, when I got my PhD, they said to me, as we hood you, what do you want us to say? I say, I don't care what you say, but make sure you tell them I started with a GED is. It's going to be a dog fight. I would love to tell you that on the road to success, everything is going to work out. It's not. It's going to be a dog fight.
Starting point is 00:03:05 On a road to success, I lost five aunts to cancer. It's a dogfight. In the midst of my business, I lost aunts. I had to go to funerals. We had to get on a plane. We had to drive. We had aunts that are close to my age who died, who didn't have insurance. We had to raise money.
Starting point is 00:03:26 A dog fight. I had cousins shot in stores, execution style. Shot back in head, back in the head twice. So dog fight. Like you don't see that on YouTube, you don't see that on my TGI. It's a dog fight. My wife, three years ago, seven legions filed in the brain. It's a dog fight.
Starting point is 00:03:51 It hasn't been easy. It's a dog fight. It hadn't been, it hasn't been, it's just a paved role, and like each he goes its way. It's been rough. It's been crooked. It's been hard. But I've made up in my mind that I will get a reward for the face that I go through.
Starting point is 00:04:07 I will not stop in the middle of the process. I will not be defeated. I will not be destroyed. I will take everything that happens in my life and I will allow the pain to push me to greatness. You will not break me. You will not stop me. You will not defeat me.
Starting point is 00:04:24 The only way I lose is if I quit, it's going to be a dog fight. Don't get started. Decided why. Because they keep telling me no fast but enough strength. Do not have hate. It did happen to me at 30. It happened to me at 30.
Starting point is 00:05:38 after I had been through all the pressure I thought I could go through life said you finish with all the pressure I said yeah and say let me bring on the heat then when I went through the pressure and the heat y'all I thought it was over the creator said now you're ready to get cut you say you wanted to be great son you said you wanted to travel the world you said you wanted to help people inspire people armed forces let's just pick one the navy for instance the first thing they teach you somebody over here help me out you were in the navy right you're going they're teaching you war right
Starting point is 00:06:34 what's the first thing they teach you the first thing they teach you the very first thing they teach you is how to respond when you have a jam gun and number two how to carry your dead body they teach you they don't teach you how to defend yourself they don't teach you how to swim the first thing they teach you is when your gun is jammed the first thing they teach you is a dead body how to carry a dead body and somebody tell me why would they start you there that's the worst
Starting point is 00:07:04 type scenario that's what you're not prepared for that's what you're not thinking when you go out to defend yourself that your gun is going to jail you're not you're not thinking when you go out there that your boy going to get killed and you got to drag you're not thinking that so listen to me it's not it's not my cousin getting shot twice it's not my cousin's been 50 years in jail it's not my eyes down It's not about white or being diagnosed with seven legions on a brain that will break you. What will break most people that you didn't prepare for that? So when you put all your little goals and all your little dreams together, it's not the thing that broke you that broke you. It was you never even thought about the fact that you could be broken.
Starting point is 00:07:48 It's going to be a dog fight. And if you solved, this ain't that you want to get out now. This is where you're like, I quit. But if you're willing to say, I'm not going to quit, Guarantee you whatever success you want to have you're gonna have it You will not outbrien you you won't outbrime me you can be smarter than me You won't outbrime me I get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and do videos I do a video at 3 o'clock I'll do a video at 2 o'clock I do I'm putting out so much dog on
Starting point is 00:08:26 content they can't keep up they smarter than me they better than me I admit I got a GED I ain't the smartest person in the world but I get up and do this for D D D D D D D D D because of what Dee did for me. I do this for my kids. My daddy wasn't there. I do this for my family. You can't stop me. The reason why some of you should be stopped because you're doing it for yourself. And guess what happened when you get tired? When you grinding and when you're grinding, when you grinding, grinding is a sacrifice. Grinding cost. When you're grinding and your body tell you you hurt, when you're doing it for you, you stop. You never, you never prepared for worst case to net. And the reason why E.T. is standing here.
Starting point is 00:09:18 because I'm prepared for it. If you know anything about me, I still lay on floors. I still eat chips off the floor. I still do some stuff that to most people is crazy. Like, E-E, why would you do that? Because I'm always prepared that we may not live in our house one day. One day something might happen, and we might have to go back to that. And if I have to go back to that, it's not going to break me.
Starting point is 00:09:42 The thing we covered the most, that for a diamond to be produced, it must first go through extreme heat. Extreme heat. Extreme pressure. Are you here what I'm telling you, for a diamond to be produced, it has to go through extreme pressure, extreme heat. And if that wasn't enough, what makes a diamond a diamond is the cuts.
Starting point is 00:10:10 So you are put through, if you want to be a diamond, you must go through extreme pressure. If you can't take pressure, then you're not a diamond. After you go through all the pressure you thought you could not handle and you think it's over, then they turn on the heat. Eating out trash cans. The worst thing that ever happened is when I went to the hospital and they told me my wife had a chronic illness and she might not be able to walk one day. People say ET asked CJ, it never broke me. Why?
Starting point is 00:10:48 Because I've been broken so much. Defeated so much. I've been disappointed so much in my life. But I know what it feels like and I can handle it. Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute or an hour or a day or even a year. But eventually it will subside. And something else will take its place.
Starting point is 00:11:11 If I quit, however, it will last forever. Some of you in the room right now, you are where you are, you're giving 60% when you have 120 in you. Why? Because you've never made a decision. We all have 24 hours. All right, what makes some of us average, make some of us good, some are great.
Starting point is 00:11:27 It's not the family you was born into. It has nothing to do with that. It has nothing to do with your social economic status. It has everything to do with how you command your life. So if you have a bad day, which is no such thing of, it doesn't exist. You had a bad moment and you were so immature that you let that moment dictate the rest of your day. Right? And y'all are not kids no more.
Starting point is 00:11:49 I don't do elementary school. And some of you are grown, but you're still a child. And you brag about how you're an adult. You're only an adult because of your age. You're not an adult because you command your life I was homeless for two and a half years And the problem with most of you You never felt no pain before
Starting point is 00:12:05 Y'all spoiled y'all spoiled some of y'all spoiled Just bottom line Your parents have done everything for you You never had to do nothing for yourself You're gonna keep it real tonight Some of you are spoiled brats Every time you ever got in trouble Somebody in your house got you out of it
Starting point is 00:12:20 Every time you've done something you're not supposed to do People say Eric your mother's a tyrant You're right She kicked me out you're right She's mean But she developed a man because she put me out there and said, you're going to have to grow up. And some of you have never learned to grow up. And so every time something get hard, you quit, you call mama.
Starting point is 00:12:36 I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you. I dare you not to go home. You ain't going to die. At the end of pain, it's success. You're not going to die because you're feeling a little pain. I'm not eating like I eat at home. That's why you're about to go through the next level, because if you keep eating like you ate at home, you will keep being a boy or a girl.
Starting point is 00:12:55 It's time to become man, woman. I love my life. Y'all got to start loving your life. And whether you make it to the league or not, you are not who you are because of the league. You are who you are because of who you are. And if you make it to the league, then the league is going to be blessed with your presence.
Starting point is 00:13:12 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Be comfortable on who you are. Be comfortable if you're all poor. If you come from a family right now that's broke, you use that to your advantage. I use that to my advantage that I was a high school drop out, that I was homeless, that I ate out of trash can. I love dealing with a dude who think because he comes for money, he better than me.
Starting point is 00:13:29 Let's go. Let's go. You got money, but do you got that dog? Yeah, you got money, you got print, but do you got that dog? Do you got that stamina? So yeah, you might have something I don't have right now, but if I work hard, I can have what you have. You have to give it everything you got. No more TV, no more parties, no more playing.
Starting point is 00:13:48 If you don't have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying. Get off the phone. I'm sorry, I'm not available. until the end of this year. No, I'm for real. You've reached the right number, but you call me at the wrong time. Call me back January 1st.
Starting point is 00:14:04 I'm about to get busy now. I want you to have a countdown of your own and say when the countdown is over, with a real, shh, watch me, because when I was homeless, I knew something was wrong. I knew that wasn't the best of me.
Starting point is 00:14:15 And one day I said, will the real Eric Thomas, please stand up? Will the real Eric Thomas, please stand up? Stop being this high school dropout. Stop giving up, stop sleeping on the street, stop walking up and down, Finco Avenue like you ain't got nothing, and get your GED. Stop being afraid to take a test. Stop being afraid to go to college because your daddy didn't go and your mama didn't go. Stop being afraid and be the best Eric Thomas you can be, but listen to me, it's going to be hard.
Starting point is 00:14:43 It took me 12 years to get a four-year degree, but I got it. And guess what, on a degree, it don't have dates. But I'm exactly where I wanted to be because I realized I got to commit my very being to this thing. I gotta breathe it, I gotta eat it, I gotta sleep it. And until you get there, you'll never be successful in life. But once you get there, I guarantee you the world is yours. So work hard and you can have whatever it is you want. I realized one day what was missing was confidence.
Starting point is 00:15:11 Guys, I remember like being number 20 in the world. I remember being like number 15 in the world. And I remember when I became the best in the world, the only thing that changed is one day I got on stage and said I belong here. Of course, money changed. The blue checks changed, but I remember everything in my life changed when I got on stage and said, why are you nervous? You belong here. Why are you nervous? This stuff didn't come from a book. You didn't watch some video and pick this up. It's your life. You have the credibility. You belong.
Starting point is 00:15:40 So when I got on stage, I realized one day like, yo, you were homeless and you came out of it. You didn't know who your biological father was, but you fought to meet him and build a relationship with him. You were married. You've been married 28 years. E.T. You got two kids of the same. E.T. You got degrees when nobody in your family has ever had a PhD. Nobody in your family has ever wrote a book before. E.T. You went from the bottom to the top. E.T. You belong on stage. You belong on stage. Eric. You have something to say. You really care about the people.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Your motives are pure. Like all your stuff has been pure. E. You're still doing middle schools. You're still doing elementary school. You're still doing high schools. E. You belong here. You're still doing a free program for 10 years at Michigan State. You belong here. You're putting out a video every day. You belong here. And before I leave, some of you, your problem is you don't believe that you belong here. Sh, there are those of you in this room, you're already there. Your problem is there's some stuff you don't want to give up to go. You're talented.
Starting point is 00:16:36 You just don't want to give up sleep. It's not that you, listen to me, pound for pound, any agent in the room, pound for power, motivational speaker, pound for pound for power, entrepreneur, power for power, athlete, power for power, weight lifting, pound for power. Whatever you do, I guarantee you when you do it, nobody can do it like you do it. The problem is you don't hardly do it. You love sleep too much. You love that alcohol too much. You love that substance too much. You love that vice too much.
Starting point is 00:17:06 There's something that you love more than yourself, than your dream. What do you do on the days that you don't feel like? So I'm going to be honest with you. I'm way past that. Every day I feel like. Every day I feel like eating. every day I feel like giving my wife the best life every day I feel like driving in a nice car
Starting point is 00:17:26 every day I feel like flying first class every single day of my life I feel like giving $100 every single day somebody said yesterday ET you gave 120 what you're gonna do tomorrow I said I don't know get 140 I don't know but I don't have days where I don't feel like it why
Starting point is 00:17:45 because I'm counting on me my wife's counting on me I don't have days the way That person who was your hater, they thought they defeated you. That person who told you you'll never amount to anything. They thought they defeated you. I need you to say it so they could hear. One, two, three, I am. One, two, three, I am.
Starting point is 00:18:06 One, two, three, I am. We're going to add this to the Declaration. I'm going to read something to you. We're going to add this and then I'm out. We're going to add this and I need you to say it like you meaning. We're going to say, I am. Therefore it is. And when you walk out of here, you're going to live it.
Starting point is 00:18:24 One, two, three. I am. Therefore. I love it. One, two, three. I am there for it. All right, all right. This is good, but I don't got enough attitude.
Starting point is 00:18:36 He knows that I need a little attitude. All right. One, two, three. I am. Therefore it is. One, two, three. I am there for it. One, two, three.
Starting point is 00:18:51 One, three. Three. I need you to be a huge favor. All three, beast mode. One, two, three. Rich people don't waste time. They realize it's their most important commodity. They don't watch a lot of TV. They don't do a lot of entertainment. If they're not working, they're studying their craft and getting better at their craft. So I need you to stop having the poverty mindset. So when I quit my job to be an entrepreneur, my mom was like, whoa, what are you doing? I was like, I'm quitting. My mom's like, don't you dare quit? You're going to embarrass you. You got a wife and kids. Does YouTube have insurance? Does YouTube have a 401k? And I was like, your mom, I ain't trying to be funny and I ain't trying to be disrespectful. I love you. But you can't teach me how to be a millionaire because you're not. You come from the working class and I'm not mad at you, Ma. We wouldn't be where we are without you. But you told me that every generation is supposed to get better. So I'll take your values, but I'm going to take your work at them. Because rich people don't work, they think.
Starting point is 00:19:56 Poor people go clock in, I make this much an hour. Rich people go, I put them to work and I make this much an hour. See, what happens is you're working for you and your family won. They got 40 of you working at one time. So they're giving you 20%, and then they're keeping the 80% off of 15,000 people. So what you have to decide is, are you going to keep being the 99% or are you ready to be a part of the 1%? When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that's when you find a way. You have an opportunity right now.
Starting point is 00:20:40 A real man in the dark when nobody's watching, he's putting in work. A real man, when coach ain't even watching, he's studying film on his own because he loves the process. Because real lions like the heart, they love the process just as much as they love the pride. If you will be a champion, if you will be a beast, you won't have to go through something. Crisis is not a permanent condition. And crisis is a human description. It's just a season. This is important.
Starting point is 00:21:27 And the key to life is outlasting the season. The key to life is outlasting. This is if you can stay warm long enough, summer will come. In other words, the season for you to leave the job you are on has come. Why? There's a better one up ahead. He got to prepare you for that. So he got to close out one chapter to open a bigger chapter.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Get ready for something. Big, big, big, bigger than what you had. What will you do with your pain? Will you let it break you or will you let it redefine you? Seasons of crisis. Everybody say it with me. Overcoming seasons of crisis. that no one can do it for you but you and even though you face disappointments even though you will experience some setbacks it goes with the territory you must understand that life has taught me that you will grow through what you go through has taught me for every level there's another devil life has taught me that the depth of your struggle will determine
Starting point is 00:22:55 the height of your success. What will you do with your pain? Will you let it break you or will you let it redefine you? And hear me, everybody's got a dream, everybody's got to go. Everybody wants something in life. But many of you in this room right now, your beast mode is idle. Your beast mode is not turned on.
Starting point is 00:23:20 And when you leave this place, I'm telling you, your life is going to go to a hold of the level. If you can learn to turn that switch on, turn that switch on and keep that switch on. I need you to recycle your pain. I want you to recycle your pain. Now many of you when you get this water bottle you might be thinking this is the first time that this is the very first time this particular plastic was formed and we don't know this could have come from you right so you got to do me a huge favor because what you're going to discover as you're going towards your dream as you're going towards your goal they're going to be there's
Starting point is 00:23:53 so many distractions there's going to be so many people that haters so many people that come up against you So many obstacles, so many trials, so many tribulations. When people ask me, E.T. Like, for real, for real, E. I know you can give me 20 things that you've done to help yourself to become successful. But E.T., I just mean like one or two. Can you give me one or two? And one of the things I tell people is I outlasted the pain.
Starting point is 00:24:19 I outlasted the pain. When I was sleeping in those abandoned buildings, I kept telling myself, one day you'll be a homeowner. Every time I walked into that abandoned building, I told myself that this might be your current circumstances, but this will not be how the story ends. All you have to do ET is to survive today. To survive today, when they kick me out of school, I knew that I would not be a high school dropout for the rest of my life. I knew I got to get you this one day.
Starting point is 00:24:52 Every single day when I woke up in that abandoned building, one day, one day is going to be E.T. days but that day can't come if I give up today soon it will be my day and I will recycle my pain well I didn't grow up with my biological father he wasn't into my in my life until I was 30 years old but I told myself today your father is not in your life but one day my mom and I have gone months and almost years of not talking to each other but every single day I kept telling myself one day I have a great relationship with my mom one day what will you do with with your pain. Will you let it break you or will you let it redefine? I outlasted the pain.
Starting point is 00:25:50 I outlasted the pain. On three, Bismo. One, two, three. Beesmo. One, two, three. Beesmo. One, two, three. Peacemo. You know, I thought if you were a good person and you do right by people, that people will take your kindness and give you kindness back. But what I realize is sometimes in this world, the kinder you are, the more they try to play you like a fool. I was delusional. I'm nice to you. You're nice to me. Don't always work like that.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Sometimes it's nice to me and I take advantage of you. So some of y'all, you delusional. I just need you to do me a favor. When you are delusional, you can never get the outcomes you want because the premise in which you're operating from is a lie. So you've got to work from truth. And some of us don't want to deal with truth because it's. It's so difficult. E.T.
Starting point is 00:27:12 you dropped out of school. E.T. you grew up in a certain community. In order for you to be able to do what you need to do like a Tony Robbins, there's some things that you don't have in your arson that if you can just admit you don't have it in your arson, then you can go get it. But until you admit that you don't have it, you'll never be able to do it. So I need you to be a huge favor. I just need you to be real.
Starting point is 00:27:33 And a reason why a lot of y'all don't want to be real, because some of you would rather be in a lie and at least have a lie than not have anything at all. You already know that job. know that job you ain't about to your boss ain't about to cash you out you just scared to quit and start your own business because you don't know if you're going to do well or not you know you shouldn't come on be honest you know you still shouldn't be at that job right now let me see your hand let's just be real let me see the hand you know you should raise it high don't play with me raise it high you still shouldn't be at that job but you're delusional that one day it's going to be your day
Starting point is 00:28:03 that one day you're going to merge your job and your get your calling together it's not going to happen you're going to have to just leave he gave me permission to say I I am brilliant. Yeah, I might be different, but I am brilliant. Yep, I might be loud, but I am special. He gave me permission. And so the first thing I want you to do today is I want you to keep saying to yourself, I am, I am, I am. And for those of you who hadn't quite started yet, I am. And for those of you who gotten started, I am. Why? Because I can't believe that I started with a GED. And that GED turned into a for you to agree one two three one two three one two three one two three i am great listen to me and i don't owe anybody in a policy i am phenomenal and i don't owe anybody an apology i am going to do great things and i don't hold anybody an apology i am i was created to be great i was created to do great
Starting point is 00:29:14 think I was created to have great things and I will no longer ask others for their permission. That Eric Thomas that grew up in Detroit and had like that Detroit mentality, while I love it, it doesn't transfer to every community. I had to, let the dream destroy you. Let it strip you. Let it remake and mold you. Don't be afraid. Some of you are afraid.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Listen to me, wherever you from, if that's where you from, if you leave, you can always come back. I promise you. I promise you when you come back, you can get right back into conversation. Ain't nothing going to change. I promise you, whatever world you're from, if you go to other worlds, you can always go back to that world. The version of you that you are right now is a blessing, but it won't take you to the next level. What got you here won't take you there. So let the dream destroy you, tear you down, redefine you, build you back up, make you stronger.
Starting point is 00:30:16 the first version of Eric Thomas, the high school dropout, that guy would have never been able to stay in here and help you. I had to destroy that Eric Thomas. No matter who you are, if you're average or if you're good, when you get around greatness and you stay around greatness, you start listening to great podcasts and reading great books and you start hanging around great people. When you start becoming a part of great masterminds, God, you just evolved. And I don't know what happened, but every year I went from a high school dropout and homeless to a lot. I started to be coming every single day, more of who I am. And I can't believe it, my next goal is to win the Nobel Prize.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Why? I had to come up with something. I am giving you permission to be great. I'm giving you permission to be everything you were called to be, to do everything that you're capable of doing, to have everything you're supposed to have. Listen to me, you have to be careful when you hang around average people. All they're going to do is tell you what they can't do. And that's okay that they can't do it,
Starting point is 00:31:21 but that has absolutely nothing to do with us. We can go from being homeless in high school dropouts to having PADs, writing books and becoming the voice of a generation. We can do whatever we believe we can do, and we don't need anybody's permission to do it but ours. You are brilliant. You are special. Yes, you're different, and yes, you're not doing it as a traditional route.
Starting point is 00:31:44 But greatness is upon you. You got to keep going. You got to keep going. You got to keep going. In the 12 years to get the four-year degree turned into a master's degree. And the master's degree turned into a PhD. God, I can't believe it. I went from being a high school dropout, from being homeless, living in abandoned buildings,
Starting point is 00:32:07 to eating out of trash cans, to Dr. Eric Thomas, to writing six books. God, are you hearing what I'm saying? today stop playing small and start playing big because I am all right all right all right let's stop on three one two three I am one two three one two three I listen to me I was literally homeless I was coming to church not really taking showers I wasn't brushing my teeth and this guy looked at me and said you need to get your GED you need to leave Detroit I'm going to to college because greatness is upon you. I was 16, 17 years old. I had never spoken a day in my
Starting point is 00:33:01 life and this guy saw it. Like he saw something to me that I didn't see and he gave me permission to be where other people said I couldn't be. He gave me permission to believe I was great. He gave me permission to think I could change the world. He gave me permission to start something that had never started in my family before. He gave me permission to say, I am! I am! Listen to me very closely. When you graduate and you get a job, if you want to get paid, you never say no.
Starting point is 00:33:36 You never say it can't get done. Don't you ever say out your mouth, it can't get done. Even if you feel in your heart, it can't get done. You don't say it out loud. You let the broke folks say that. You let the folks they find first to that. You always say it can get done. Even if you don't think it can get done, just say it and try to make up something.
Starting point is 00:33:53 I'm being real. I'm being real. I'm being real. I don't deal with people who say, or they get paid real low in my company. They like maintenance when you say, I don't know how, or I don't think it can be done.
Starting point is 00:34:06 I'm like, okay, cool. You won't be like at the end of the year when bonus is getting passed up, you won't be getting no bonus. What I need you to do is I need you to kill the noise. I need you to embrace the I am. And however you get it done, I need you to get it done.

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