THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Creating Generational Wealth w/ Dana Chanel

Episode Date: March 10, 2020

Live your life with PURPOSE In this interview, I sat down with one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the country. I have been chasing this young woman down to get her on my show and I am beyond excited to share with you the incredible and empowering story of Dana Chanel! Dana went from sharing a 2-bedroom apartment with 9 siblings and working as a hostess at a strip club to becoming a multi-millionaire at only 26 years old. She pours her heart into her work and her work comes from her heart. Becoming a successful entrepreneur is no walk in the park but the one thing that you will see over and over again with top achievers is their dedication to the SERVICE of others. Dana Chanel is no exception. In this interview, Dana reveals how she was able to overcome a broken home, find faith in a higher power and go on to help thousands of other people make their dreams come true! We speak candidly about what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and she reveals the #1 key ingredient to her amazing success. We often think we have to re-invent the wheel…. but as entrepreneurs, what we need to do is find something we love and evolve it into something even better! It’s only okay to be patient if you are moving your feet… The harvest will come, but you have to plant the seeds! Life is short, be mindful of the opportunity you have every day when you get out of bed! If you want to create generational wealth... If you think your age plays a role in your ability to be successful... Or if you are WAITING to feel “ready” to start... This interview is for YOU!!

This is the Ed Marley Show. Welcome back to Max out everybody. I'm so fired up about today's show because a young woman to my left, I've been chasing to get on this show for quite a while. You know, people ask me all the time, how to guess good on your show. And normally, they pursue us and then we go through the list of people and pick the people that I'm the most excited about. About 5% of the time, though, I chase people. That I want to have on the show whose message I want you to hear or see.

And this young woman to my left was at the top of my list that I've been chasing. And so, she's 26 years old. She's one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the country. was at the top of my list that I've been chasing. And so she's 26 years old. She's one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the country. She's building family generational wealth with her husband, Don. She's an anointed communicator.

And I told her off camera, she's just special. She's just special. And I'm so honored to share her with the millions of you today. So Dana Chanel, thank you for being here today. Hi. Hello. Whoa. She's awesome.

And by the way, she's also, and this is a significant part of it too, she's also a female entrepreneur, and that's why she's a she, and she's also one of the leaders in the minority entrepreneur community as well. And so I know there's sets of things about that that we'll discuss today too, but I've watched you. And your content resonates with me so deeply because of its truth. And I'm struck by how a woman that's at 26 years old is accomplished, all you've accomplished. So have you always been this way? It's the first thing I wanted to ask you. If I met a little 16-year-old you, was there this wise soul in there who wanted to be somebody who was this anointed communicator?

Or is this something sort of you've grown into your early and mid-20s? Well, I think what's interesting is our gifts and talents almost like make little appearances throughout our lives, but we're just not sure how to use it. To get what I'm saying. And so, I remember in high school always being bold and confident. I was always the one that was like, you know what? Don't even bother doing the project. Let me do it because I know what I'm going to go up there and stand and do the presentation

and everything. I knew it was always like that, but I grew up in a household with four brothers and sisters, not a household, a two bedroom apartment. And my mom had me at 15 years old. So she was a child raising a child and I immediately even saw my knack for negotiating because I would always out negotiate my mom. There was no punishment for me. That wasn't happening. It was my household and I naturally took that leader or wrong, the oldest out of nine now, between my mom and my dad. But I think growing up, my parents hated each other more than they loved their kids. And so, I didn't speak to my father for a very long time.

We were back and forth. He called me every single name in the book that I was going to end up just like my mother. All that kind of stuff, just because there was just so much friction. And it wasn't until I began rebuilding a relationship with my real father that I began having access to God's wisdom because he was leading me. And so a lot of people say, and look at us, and like, dude, how are you doing this all? Listen, success has history. If someone literally is claiming to be super successful, they have all these things that cost money, whenever you buy something, there's a receipt. Do you get what I'm saying? There's a receipt to everything.

And so please do not look at me and think that I'm just this person who just made it. It's a lie. My father is Uncle Magic, the hip hop magician. He is a real life magician. Literally, it's the funniest thing ever. I love it. But I will say one day we got back together again and I was just talking to him and he invited me back to his home. And I was like, at this time I was working the front desk at a strip club.

And I literally called my dad and randomly, I swear, I remember being at the strip club and I was reading this book called 30 Days to becoming a woman of prayer Randomly I have no idea like literally ed like I have no idea how it got on to me But I'm reading at the strip club the bouncers literally laughing at me But once again, I've always been I don't care my dream business You know what I mean? And I ran on me called my father. I'm like, yo, how are you like how have you been? And he was like I'm fine. I say you know, I'm gonna come visit you. I'm gonna come see you.

And I never left. Oh my God. And through that process, both of us were so broken. Him almost in a sense feeling like a failure of not doing what he was called to do earlier, but most importantly, me also attacking him for not being a dad. And then only hearing in the back of my mind

everything that my mom subliminally deposited into my spirit about him, like, oh, you're no good. Like, you're a bull from the streets. Like, you ain't nothing, you know what I mean? But I don't, it was, I swear the Holy Spirit literally brought us back together at the most perfect time where he was ready. And he was, he was, I felt like my dad was finally looking

at himself and saying, I have nothing else to do. Like, I've made it in my life from going to the streets to real business and being successful, but his mom had maybe died a couple years before. And he's like really thinking, there's no legacy here. Because all of my kids are scattered between their moms and we don't like each other there's no communication and I was just laying in my room in his house and one day he came up to me and was like you know what you got to do something I don't know what it is I don't freaking know what it is but

we have to do something I'm going to help you do it. And that was the defining moment where me and my father could really rebuild our relationship again. Because I think business, you can actually tell if it's working. Like, there's a real result. Yes. My dad is the most extraordinary man I've ever met in my life. And when we started building a business out, he was like, well, what do you want to do? I was like, I want to talk about God. And he was like, what the?

He was like, okay. But then was a moment for him. Because he said to himself, he said, oh my gosh, I had a dream. And God told me that I would never build a relationship with my kids again until they knew God. So I'm literally by myself reading the Bible, just building a relationship with God himself, right? I was made this joke and I was like, oh, a little sprinkle of Jesus. And

I'm learning myself. I don't fucking know how to do this stuff. Like, you know what I mean? And he immediately saw that I was good with computers. And he's dissecting my gifts and my talents. And he's watching me. And I don't know what he's doing because I've never seen anybody do that before. My mom literally, and I know she's tried her hardest, I know that she has. To get what I'm saying, but when you're in this constant fight for survival, you can't live. My mom wasn't living so she didn't raise me, she just took care of me.

And so I'm sitting there with my dad and he's like watching my gifts and my talents and he saw that I was really good with computers. And so he was like, go do like a WordPress website or something like that. And I'm like, okay, whatever. So I'm blogging about like drugs and sex and all that kind of stuff. But I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't know how to make money and immediately he was like, we're going to sell some advertisement. And I was like, what's that? So he starts breaking it down to me. And I am a fast learner.

Yeah, you are. I'm such a fast learner. And he's like, you're going to sell some advertisement. I said, OK, break it down to me, explain it to me. So we started doing that. We made some money off of advertisement. And then there was this one time. I went to this girl. She is a reality television star, Erica Metna. She invited me to this birthday party and this is while I'm like building up my following on social media. I was known for my

15-second sermons. That's when Instagram only had 15 seconds. And literally I would say, talk about God and it was just weird. You didn't see someone like me that was so entuned with the culture, but still encouraging people to like, yo, y'all better build this relationship with this guy named Jesus, because it's the only thing that brought me back to life. And like literally was the defining commonality where me and my father could build a relationship again. So once again, we're arguing we're fighting throughout the entire process. And I just remember I went to Erica's birthday party

and I was wearing maybe a little low cut jumper or whatever. Instagram had a whole freaking conibction and I woke up the next morning with that little notification that said this has been removed. Oh, you did. This has been removed due to violation of the policy, right? I told my dad I'm like, Dad, Joe, they deleted my picture. He sat there and he goes like this, you need a mobile

app. So I'm like, Dad, like, no one's going to want to download an app just talking about Jesus, like this is impossible. Like, like, this is boring. Everybody's on Instagram. Why aren't we promoting on there? Like, this is where we should be building the business. And he said one thing that changed my life. He said when it's not your home, you go by someone else's rules. And immediately, then we built the sprinkle of Jesus app. And we started selling advertisement. We started selling in app purchases. And it became really the largest online Christian app

of all time in community, didn't it? Dude, our strategic marketing and the way that we went about that, once again, the reason that I'm here is because I have 42 years of wisdom with a 26 year old stamina. And so I'm literally like, he's feeding me, he's teaching me, he's cultivating me, but he tells me all the time and he looks at me and it like literally like gives me those butterflies. He's like, yo, you're better than I could ever be. Well, see, this is a part of your story. I did not know.

I didn't know how central of a royal your dad played, but I want to put a pause here. I want to just semi something for everybody here because I have people on here. One, we're going to teach you some things here in a minute too. But all of you come to the show today. Your life is in some sort of condition.

Good, bad, batter indifferent, right? Yeah, and what you just heard I want everyone just to hear this okay This is a young woman who has a mother who births her at 15 years old. There's a terrible relationship with the parents. She's a strange from her father She's going up on a two-bedroom place with a bunch of kids That says not the environment where you're going. You know, if we could put a camera in there, that's gonna be one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country by the time she's 25 years old.

From Middletown, Delaware. Right, and she's gonna have five, six different companies she's built by the time she gets to that age. Are you all hearing this? And then she's at the front desk of the strip club. It's not like that was 20 years ago, right? This is only a 26 year old woman. She just turned

26. So it's remarkable where you've come from so quickly. And then to think that really it came from a passion plate from your faith that you've now founded, you guys, this is a huge dad gum deal, a huge deal. And so you build that. And through that, I want to just step back just for a second. You've built multiple different types of businesses and we're going to talk about other ones here in a minute. But is there something that underlays all of them that's made them all work? In other words, they're very different, but is there some underlying principles or principles that have made them all work for you? The sprinkle of Jesus' app. And I think this was the turning point.

And I'm so grateful that I took my dad's advice on this. And he was like, actually, it wasn't even advice. You know how dads are. He was like, you know what, if you don't do it, I ain't helping you. And I'm like, what do you mean you're not helping me? Right? And so what ended up happening is,

we built the sprinkle of Jesus' app and it started growing. And then once again, the 26 year old Samina, I'm invested in the culture. Like I remember like, he not being technological savvy, that's why I swear to you, God specifically put us together at the right time where we were old enough to say, hold on one second, I know where we came from, but look, this is where we can go. There's a specific reason for this, you know what I mean? And my dad's an extraordinary entertainer. And I remember I was building this sprinkler G as app, but people were knowing the app,

people in the community were downloading it, but he saw something that was going to literally detire everything in this thing called business. I think that one thing right there causes an awful lot of people to freeze and everything they do in their life. They're so aware of what they don't have or don't know in their life that they just feel like they're not qualified to succeed or to be out there or to lead. I think that a lot of people suffer from that. Do you see that?

Yeah, and I would say in that moment there was one thing that I realized he was building outside of business that was going to be the foundation of all of them. That was confidence. He literally looked me in the face and he said, you will get nowhere if you are not confident. 100% right? And so he pushed me off the ledge. Yes. And after that, I was like, oh yeah, I'm built for this. And I would say the only reason why I'm here today, Ed, is because there is a man behind me who has made me believe that I can fly.

There is nothing that I can accomplish. There is nothing that I can't do. The second that I think it can come to life, you ever look at your kids and like, okay, she finally learned that lesson. She finally learned that lesson. And it was after that that I began picking every single business lesson that I've ever learned and began applying it, not just what he taught me

but on the internet, that thing called YouTube. You know what I mean? And so I started learning what all these other people do. And then I'm listening to the rich white girls online too of like how they got all these investors and stuff. I'm like, what the heck? I don't got no friends like that. So it was one of those things

while we were building sprinkle of cheese, I finally got my confidence up. And then I'm sitting back and I'm thinking I said, Dad, I said, we got a problem. He said, Dana, what we got a problem about? I said, people are paying us to promote their business on this platform, this sprinkle of cheese platform. I said, Dad, why don't we have businesses on the platform?

And he looked at me, he said, you're learning, he said, you're learning, he said, you got to me to it before me. And I started breaking down, he said, evolve the plan for me though. I said, okay, I said, Dad, why don't we create more need-based businesses because he's always taught me from the beginning,

and once again, the only reason that I'm here right now is because I've been trained to think so much outside of myself that wealth does not come from riches. It's come from the wealth that you've put in other people's pockets. And so I said, Dad, I said, how about we create need-based businesses? And we go ahead and promote to do a sprinkle of Jesus app, but kind of no one knows about it.

And so the first business that we went into, is Alakazam apps. I said, hold on, dead, we kind of know how to do this and we've had our app before their Kardashians. We had our app before we grew, it's Brinkel and Jesus faster than Facebook grew in their first year. That's how psycho crazy this was.

And he was like, you know what? And once again, we're bouncing off of each other. He was my first co-founder. We're literally bouncing off of each other. And he was like, you know what? Let's build apps for other businesses. I said, all right, where are we going to get the customers from though?

And he said, let's start with our community. He said, I know people in the community, because I'm a jishon, I'm a well-networked person. I said, all right, and I'll be the technology side. Literally created 50 million different emails. I was a publishing department, the production department, I was the customer service department. And I literally, my fingers were metaphorically bleeding

and I put over like 253 hundred apps in the app store by myself. We were running this company and that's what made the extreme change for being known as an Instagram kind of like socialite or social media socialite to actually doing real business because now I was offering the service where I'll build your mobile application for you. So we actually bought into the company that built our mobile app and I took it over we're doing better than they do. And that's when I started realizing that, okay,

hold on, wait one second. There's so much money to be made out here. And so we built Alakazam Apps First, then took Sprinkla G. It's went right back to the beginning. Every single year for the consecutive five years, we planned. We literally planned out our first five businesses

that we were going to start. Jumping Jack Tacx, the little kangaroo, he was planned four years ago. But then we started using Sprinkled Jesus knowing that Christians are everyday people as well, who need their taxes done, who need their credit or a pair, who need business services. We started advertising, we would send out a notification that would say, a prayer won't change your interest payment, let us fix your credit. That's so good. And so we built up over the last five years, all five businesses by utilizing the foundation.

And that's why I'm always encouraging. It's like, dude, I understand, I'm 26 years old. Like, my life and what I like and what I want is gonna change so much. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna wanna start a baby company after that when I have kids. But what I'm realizing is we can't keep stopping from, we can't keep starting from the bottom.

And that was one thing that I realized even with life and with people. And specifically in my community, the father's not in the household most of the time. And so we're sitting here getting frustrated with kids. We didn't even raise them to begin with, we're pushing them out at 18 years old. And they're starting at the bottom.

I'm 100% not some extraordinary fanatic, I have gifts and I have tons and I believe that the Lord chose me to accomplish something great, but best believe that there is knowledge in wisdom and love and sacrifice behind me. Yeah, and you by the way way, this is really good point. You, knowingly or not knowingly, are fulfilling that role for many, many people that you're dead, fulfilled for you through today's show, through your social media. I mean, I'm a serial entrepreneur. I built a bunch of businesses, right? I've done okay.

And when I watch your content, there are things that I pick up when I listen to you as well. And so you guys, she's built five, six different businesses. I love the fact that you use the vertical, by the way, of the original business to sort of be the platform of the other ones. Tell me about the box company, the other business that you built. I just want to, yeah, I want to know about the curl Bible

for just a second. So this is another, what I call vertical, but another extension of this progression that you're coming up with every year in your business. Just tell me about curivival real quick. Once again, filling the need in of what I see first, which now I went into it with a whole different mindset. We're now all these small companies where they're making less than a million dollars, making less than half a million dollars, but yet they're women who believe in themselves.

In my community who are like literally creating body butters and soaps and hair care brands, I said, you know what, I'm gonna give them a place to sell their stuff. So then Crow Bible became a distribution company. And more so, more than ever, I'm realizing that every single company that we do, it's just a marketing and advertising company. And we allow people ever, I'm realizing that every single company that we do is just marketing an advertising company. And we allow people because I'm sitting here driving through Philly, looking at community.

I'm like, oh, all these businesses, we're all giving the money. I know we ain't broke, we just don't know how to spend it well. And so I'm realizing that, where are we? Like, if I go in the store and I give my money, y'all don't look nothing like me, so I'm just trying to understand, what is it that I can do? And that's when we realize that our mission solely was to continue to build blueprints

for the people in America who are struggling to make it happen. And so when I looked at CurlBab, I said, okay, I'll be the advertiser in marketing. You pay in the beginning, which is 800 bucks. Now it's a lot more. But you come in, you give us your product, we market it, we sell it, and we make you money. And one of the things I heard you say about that I want to jump back in here, is I heard

you say something like, you know, I was looking at Amazon a couple of other places, they don't really make anything. They're sort of a place where people who make things can go to get their products distributed. So that was also part of the thinking too, right? Was that very thing? Once again, Ed, I'm no better than anyone else. When I see something, I move fast. That's the only reason why. Fast, fast. Is I move fast. If I fail, who cares? Who's going to tell me that I'm a loser? I'm not. Like you get what I'm saying. So it's like, when I see things and I look at that, I say, oh yeah, I'm taking it and running with it.

And so when I look at Amazon, when I look at these huge companies, they're no different than me. There was just someone who believed in themselves and I have the leadership and the capability and quite frankly, I serve someone else. So if I say, let's go, it's gonna move with me. So there's some things that she has done to make herself have multiple successful businesses that resonate with me. Number one, if you're going to be an

entrepreneur, you need to stand for something. If people don't know what you stand for, you're really, there's nothing unique and special about you. So the first thing is the center piece of your life is your faith. So you stand for that. You're bold with it. You're bold with it and your content, you're bold with it in your businesses. And that's something that that's definable and tangible with you, right? That's most entrepreneurs don't have, what are the guts? For me, that's just standing for something, okay? And so, I don't even know what you call it, but I love it, right?

But I don't, I think in entrepreneurship today, you have to stand for something, okay? The second thing was, you have a clearly defined market you're trying to serve. There's a group of people that were underserved that you've explained to say they look like me, they're issues are similar to mine, you've served that market, and you fill this need to your dad's point. Is there a need for this, right? But what I wanted to ask you that I asked the guy who was the CEO of Walmart online a few weeks ago, this is one of my show's name is Mark Laurie, he said four huge exits too.

And I said, do you think that all entrepreneurs have to have these brilliant ideas, right? And look at you, you're already answering at the exact same way he did, right? And so what would your answer to this? The idea have to be brilliant, or do you think there's other ways Mark's answer was, no. I think you ought to find something already existed.

Just find out how to do it better. That's the fastest way to become a successful entrepreneur. What would your answer be if someone says, The answer was, no, I think you ought to find something that already exists and just find out how to do it better. That's the fastest way to become a successful entrepreneur. What would your answer be if someone says, I have to have a brilliant idea to be an entrepreneur. I'm 26-year-old. 26-years-old and I have five companies. I don't try to invent the wheel.

There's no miracle pill to success and quite frankly, it's already been done. So let me just put my spin on it. Let me help whoever needs the assistance. I don't wanna be the genius. I'm not looking to be the genius. Where I come from, I don't even have the education to be a genius.

I'm looking at what I see, and I'm looking at how I can turn a profit. I'm looking at how it is it that I could build a blueprint to give other people to do the same exact thing. So, no. I want a simple simple no, you know what I mean? And I feel like that's where a lot of of people go wrong if they try to invent the best new thing. Not realizing that in the beginning of entrepreneurship, you don't know anything. Allow the process to be evolved with the way that you think. Like when you really think about it, we say this with a tax business all the time.

First off, I understand you have this goal of being a millionaire. You have this goal of being able to provide for your family. But you are a W-2 worker. You are a 9-5 worker. Your mind doesn't even have the capacity to think outside of the next time. You got to pick up your kids from daycare. So my thing is, do what you're good at. Something that you're talented or you're gifted or most importantly ready for this?

You're trained in already. Tell every single business entrepreneur this. Do something that you're trained in already instead of trying to think that you have to be some huge music artists or sell this like are you freaking kidding me? And I'm telling people all the time do something that is easy like you can easily learn. You have to be some huge music artists or sell this. Like, are you freaking kidding me? And I'm telling people all the time, do something that is easy, like you can easily learn and then sell.

And so, um... I go back all the way with you, and I go back all the way like, you became an entrepreneur, ironically, out of your passion for God, your passion for the Lord is where this thing starts, right? And this conversation's with your dad. And all entrepreneurs that are listening to this,

I probably my piece of my favorite advice to anyone's ever given on the show is what you just said. Because I know it's true. I've met thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs. And one of the other reasons I wanted to have you on and I want to talk about this too, because you built all these different businesses and you're just in the throws of,

and everyone's seeing in you what I see. And when you go to her Instagram and you see her content, you're gonna see more of what I'm talking about. You're not only gonna be inspired, you're gonna learn, but you were doing this one meeting. I think it was for your mobile app, but I'm not sure that's what it was for. And you're like, look, I'm special.

I'm gonna do something great. And if you don't think you can do something great, you need to get the hell out of here right now. Like you just don't tolerate that from people, do you? But that's a fundamental belief of yours is that every single person has something great in them. True?

Absolutely, and I just believe that it takes an extraordinary leader to make sure they break down your role. That's the problem. We're always going for the leader's spot because you don't understand your role and the piece that you're supposed to play in this thing called generational wealth. What's generational wealth mean? What's that mean? Someone being able to survive off of what you've built. You're talking about this 26 year old and why I have so many businesses because that's something that my dad taught me too.

You better continue to elevate to the next thing before it's over. You don't create Something should never create an exit for you. You should create an exit for yourself And so literally it's one thing that needed to be solid and in a foundation is that every single kid in the family had to be making a million dollars So that when it's his time to die and it's one thing that he's very much prepared me for And I think maybe that's why I get so emotional every time I talk to my dad about it. Because God doesn't lie and he is nothing to play with. And he, he, he, God told my dad that when he's done getting his kids on one accord, it's time for him to go. And so I know it's only, it's only a matter of time. You know what I mean? But he's done getting his kids on one accord. It's time for him to go. He'll be called home man.

And so I know it's only a matter of time. You know what I mean? But he's prepared me for this. He's prepared me so he raised one child up to be extraordinary, to be the backbone to this family. And then we need to make sure that if he goes and he leaves, OK, is everyone good? Is everyone OK?

I'm only doing what he believed I could. And I'm freaking, oh my gosh, like I'm so freaking happy, he believed in me and it makes me so sad when people don't have that. Just someone that believes in them. Someone to say, oh my gosh, I see you. I couldn't imagine, I lived like that for 19 years, you know what I'm saying?

And so for someone, and just now to see the fruits of his labor, I'm sitting in freaking Ed. My little house, what the hell? Well, black girl, little gunna be, to go to understand my history. Just understanding what it's like to care so much about your kids.

And say, you know what? I want to say go. It's making me cry now and you need to. Yeah, sorry. But I said, I could only imagine that you're raising some extraordinary little girls. And it's like, I'm trying. And I can tell you're raising some extraordinary little girls and it's like. I'm trying and I can tell you one thing I just want to say, I'm just sure your dad's so proud of you. I mean, from, I mean I told one of the first things you probably didn't catch you.

You walked in. I said, the only one who's freaking cried on the show is so darn nice. No, definitely not your the only person who's crying on the show. There's a lot of crying on the show, but usually I don't cry. So now you're getting me to cry, which is a little bit, that is pretty darn rare. But, you know, there's something about you that just struck me out of this watching you. Obviously you've done so much of this out of love. I have one of these, one of the talks that I give I talk about, you know, I was telling you that when Christian and I were kids we'd walk these beaches and

I go, who the heck lives in those dang beach houses? You know, like, who are these people? I literally had no idea who they were and I've discovered, you know, it's funny, it's interesting, rather, that, you know, when you meet someone who's successful like you or myself, the people think are successful, you know, they come from a family at some point who wasn't. And I don't think people realize that, like,

and then someone shows up in a family, and they change that family forever. They fight for that family. They do something extraordinary. And you and your dad partnered to do this together, which is the most beautiful part of it. But all of you listening to this, you can change your family tree, your family's destiny, your generations forever. You have that power, and you were given certain gifts that are

unique. Obviously, your gifts are so apparent. Your love for the Lord, your amazing ability to communicate. That's an anointing that you have, right? And your ability to transfer energy. Like, you feel things from you. It's extraordinary. Like, and you're using those to change your family, true. Others of you, it's your intellect. Like in Don's case, it's his ability with math and numbers and his patience level and he's got a kindness about him and a peace about him when I met him, her husband, that combination's remarkable. But you know what?

As I'm watching this young, incredible woman do something extraordinary. One of the things that concerns me on social media that I hear that I'd like you to speak to because I just want your opinion about it. But I hear a lot of these influencers message young people all the time and it's always just about patience. Be patient, be patient, be patient, be patient. Well, you know, I don't know that I agree with that. I didn't see you. You're not patient. You're after it now. You

don't have to be 40 years old to be a successful entrepreneur. You can be successful in your 20s. For those of you that are listening to this, it may not happen in your 20s. But I think sometimes people take this patience idea as well. You know, I'm just kind of chilling right now. I'm in that patient stage. You know, I know the Bible talks about patience too,

but you got to plant seeds in order for there to be a harvest in your life. You don't just sit around patient and go, well, I hope there's some harvest. There's a planting of seeds. How do you feel if you were talking to millions of young people right now, what's your opinion about patients and what you would tell them they're capable of while they're young? It's like, dude, if you have a different idea and you have this ability and you know with your capable, like you have nothing holding, like

there's nothing holding you back. What the hell are you waiting for? You know what I mean? But when you say to yourself, I understand the end destination. You start acting real different. You start acting a little different. And so I'm just realizing is that people don't really understand that you only have a smidge of time.

And me knowing that I only have a smidge of time before it's in my time to go and make sure that everyone in my family is okay and that they're still, they got the heart not to provide for their own but provide on the behalf of other people with all of our businesses. There really ain't no time to wait.

You move me. Crazy to hear a 26 year old say I'm mindful of my own death, but I gotta just say this to everybody that's listening. That's exactly the way I am. I am mindful of it. I was when I was young. I'm a lot more mindful of it as I'm older. I don't think I've got thousands of years

to make something great happen. I've got a window of time and your point of moving fast is and your point of no one's coming to save us either. What about someone watching this who's in a minority community? And there's certain inequities that they face every single day, particularly in the workplace too. I feel like it's even more incumbent for them to become an entrepreneur if they can and get some control over their future. And maybe they don't have a 42 year old dad with all of this wisdom in their life. And so speak to that a little bit about, and by the way, fastest growing segment of all new business owners are women and minorities in the country, right? Isn't that extraordinary?

Yet most of the influencers in the space that you hear from that can mentor and coach us don't fit either one of those two demographics, which is one of the reasons why you're here, as I've told you, right? And so if you were to speak to the millions and millions of young people, women that are listening to this, people from minority communities that are thinking to themselves, you know, I don't have a 42-year-old dad with a bunch of wisdom.

And but I want to be somebody, I want to change my family tree forever, I want to do something great with my life. What would you say to them? What would you speak to them? Entrepreneurship is especially for the minority community. If you're freaking listening, if anybody's listening, it's no longer an option, it's a necessity. And I understand that not everybody's an entrepreneur. I'm hip to that, please, do not go into entrepreneurship if you suck at leadership. If you don't have the ability

to have empathy for people, if you don't have a level of care and you don't care about the outcome of people's life, don't be an entrepreneur, it's a disgrace. Cause this thing called company, it's actually about being in people's company, each other thriving off one another to build something extraordinary. So if that's not true, then you stay in your lane.

You know what you have, it's interesting that most mega successful people have. It's really interesting. One, you have an anointed ability to communicate, which not all great leaders have. But you have a rare combination of super high level of self confidence combined with humility. It's a very rare combination. And it is the secret trait of many of the most successful

people I know, meaning they have this incredible self confidence, but they're humble enough to surround themselves with people who are smarter than them in particular areas. Just so pleasant, so honored to run into people that like you, that, that, that, that, my honor. That give me that like feeling in my heart to say, okay, Dana, you're doing the right thing. You're doing the right thing because there's just so many people out here. And go ahead, kahoods to you, if you're building a business in extraordinary,

but once again, the second that you don't desire to change the outcome of other people's life, you're going to have a problem. You're going to have a problem, and not with nobody. It's only, there's going to be a timeline to your business. Of course, if you don't, every extraordinary business helps other people in the outcome of their life. Most importantly, God will find you a lot less resourceful earlier in the game. We know what happens when you're not useful.

You're useless. It's hard for people to say that I don't understand that. My dad said that to my face so many times. If you're not useful, you're useless. Don't become useless, not even to God. And so it's at this point in time where... I love you. Woo!

But I'm not playing. You've got purpose on my back. Forget everybody else on my back running. I got purpose. What does that mean? You just said that. That was my last question. It was in my notes.

I heard you say this on social media. I've never heard somebody say, I've got purpose on my back. What does that mean? That's what my last question was. It used perfect segue. You've said that twice in the last 90 seconds here. What do you mean when you say that?

When you speak and you talk and you give what all that is in you and you serve and it changes the people around you, or changes a thought process, or literally changes somebody's mind to go in the opposite direction of where they're going, you're working in your purpose. Because everything and anything that the Lord has given to you, it's to change what the outcome of someone's life. That's beautiful. I love you. I'm so glad we did this today. I love you.

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