THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Rise in the Face of Adversity w/ Les Brown

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

“Rise above your past!” ⁣ ⁣ If you’ve ever wondered who inspired me to become the man I am today, look no further than today’s guest! It Is truly an honor to have Les Brown joining me on The Ed Mylett Show! ⁣ ⁣ He is BY FAR the greatest motivational speaker I’ve ever seen. He’s an author, former radio DJ, television Jost and former member of the House of Representatives. I have literally listened to HUNDREDS of hours of Les Brown’s content and he has 100% changed my entire life starting from when I started listening to him when I had just got out of college. ⁣ ⁣ This interview is so powerful and so moving I KNOW it will change your life forever! ⁣ ⁣ How does a man labeled mentally retarded at a young age, who was only allowed to drink from segregated water fountains and ride in the back of the bus go on to literally change the world? By BELIEVING that someone else’s opinion about you does NOT have to become your reality! (Although he didn’t start out believing that) ⁣ ⁣ In this interview, we dive deep into how to win this battle we call life and how to keep yourself motivated to stay in the fight. We talk about the keys to THRIVING during these difficult times and how to unleash your story of greatness that already lives within you to become the ultimate version of yourself.⁣ ⁣ We get tactical about the superpowers of communication and how you can use the very circumstances that you think disqualify you from winning to achieve unimaginable business and personal success.⁣ ⁣ Les even shares a never before heard tear-jerking testament to the power of love and forgiveness. ⁣ ⁣ If you want to “live a life that will outlive YOU” this interview is for you! ⁣

This is the Edmmerlidge show. Welcome back to Max out everybody. Today is an honor for me because I didn't even want to tell him this off camera, but this man has changed my life. Many, many years ago, I was living at home with my mom and dad, and my dad got me a job as most of you know it in orphanage at a group home. And about three days later, he says, you need to start to get motivated. And he said, I just heard this guy in the car, somebody gave me one of his tapes. He need to listen to this man. He's

incredible. And I put the cassette in and my life started to change. And that was the journey of listening to literally hundreds, hundreds of hours of this man's work impacted my life. I consider him to be the greatest speaker I've ever seen. And so the or heard and many of you know that that's something that I do as well. So I'm pretty scrutinizing about those things. This is a man who was born as a twin on really a dirty building on the floor. He was labeled as the not so smart twin, was labeled as a child to have some retardation.

As a matter of fact, got adopted by Mamie and the rest of it is one of the most amazing stories you're going to ever hear. And it's like an honor for me, everybody, to introduce this man to you because today's going to be an absolute treasure with the great less brown. So less, thank you so much for being here. Well, thank you so much for having me and you're very modest. I'm looking at the greatest speaker on the planet. I won't think you can sneak up on me. I know when I'm in the presence of greatness, I listen to you. I thank you for the work that you're doing, the lives that you've

transformed, and the impact that you're making on the planet. So I am so honored to be in your presence there. God bless you. I think you just made my life right there. I'm actually... You have no idea everybody how much I admire this man. I mean, I hopefully for some of you, maybe I play that role, but when you have somebody that you finally get a chance to meet, who's literally changed your life. I mean, my great grandchildren will probably not know who Les Brown is, but they would not have the lives they're going to have someday without him being in my life. And so speaking of which, this man has 15 grandchildren, four great grandchildren, and we're going to go all over the map today, Mr. Brown. But I thought, it's be odd for us not to start out time-ost going on in the world first.

And I have a hard time even asking some of these things of you because I get emotional because I know some of these stories because I'm such a huge follower of years. But for those of you that are listening on audio and are watching YouTube, Les Brown is an African American man. He's a black man. And so his experience over 75 years of being in this country is very valuable. And a lot of these things that have just floated to the surface more recently for the rest of society, you've been living for most of your life. And so I'm just curious is to first,

what do you think, as you're seeing what's playing out on television right now, the conversation that's happening in the world today. Just what are your thoughts when you see them? It is a founded fascinating. I find it fascinating. Here I am 75. I was five years old, downtown, and minding with my mother.

It was very hot. And it's around 90 degrees. And I saw these kids playing these white kids and one drinking from a water fountain. I let my mother's hand go and I ran to the water fountain and I started drinking from it. And my mother grabbed me by the neck and she threw me down on the ground and she started punching me with her fist. She had never done that before. And my face is my head and I was screaming.

She had a craze, a look at her eyes. I said, Mom, it's me, it's me, Mom, it's me. Then all of a sudden, a white cop came over and he had a night stick and he kept on hitting it in his hand. He said, OK, that's enough. You beat that little nigga boy enough. Now, he learned his hand. He said, okay, that's enough. You beat that little nigga boy enough. Now he learned his lesson. He won't do that again.

And he walked away and he just started laughing as he looked at me. My nose busted and my eyes are swollen. And she said as he walked away, Leslie, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, son. I said, Mama, why did you beat me like that? She said, you can't drink from that water fountain.

And I said, those white kids, they were in there. Leslie, listen, you can't drink from that water fountain. It's for whites only. And when I saw that white policeman coming over towards you with his night stick, how do he hit you? But that night stick, he would have had to kill me. And I would have left you and your brothers and sisters to fin for yourself.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I said, Mama, it didn't hurt that bad. I said, I never wanted to get in my children like that. I had to do something to distracting. And that was the birth of hunger in me. Because on that day, I realized something that Modern Sealman said in the book called

Learned Optimism. He said, between the ages of zero and five that we learn what's available to us and what's not available to us. And there are places that I couldn't go. I used to see signs on Miami Beach that said, Jews, dogs and colors, not allowed. I remember being on the bus and seats were available

front and we were packed in the back. And I remember being on the bus and seats were available front and we were packed in the back. And I remember stopping and said, Mama, there's seats up here. Leslie, keep moving. Mama, there's seats here. There empty seats. Did you hear me? Keep moving. What?

Passed that yellow line. And so, I'm going to look at now. Here's the positive stuff. Benjamin Franklin said that until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are affected, things will never change. For the first time, we have large numbers of white people and people from all walks of life saying whoa Mmm This is wrong

This is wrong evil prevails when good men and women do nothing and good men and women from all walks of life of God and involved this is a reckoning and It's it's first of all it's sad to see And it's, it's, first of all, it's sad to see. It's hardwarming that there are people who do care. You care. There, you have, I always tell speakers, I train speakers at this point, who you are behind the words, a far more important

than the words that you speak when I train speakers. I first work with a messenger and then the message. And so that evil prevails when good men and women do nothing, they're a lot of good men and women who've put themselves in a harm's way, who've said, these are human beings and their lives matter. And so I think if we had a protest saying, black lives are better.

You're not saying that, we're saying black lives matter. I mean, when cops, they know they have absolute power, their judge, jury, and execution. Over 95% never go to court. And those who go, they are called innocent, the prosecuting attorneys on their side, the judge, the jury, and absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

But I do believe in our lifetime, at some point in time, that we are going to honor the courage and the persistence and the commitment to eradicate what we're dealing with. Because cultures of terrorism, people who are supposed to provide and protect who are killing and terrorizing, these cultures are created by people and they can be changed by people.

And the secret is, it's for us to maintain commitment through all the frustrations, through all the disappointments, through all the things and people who infiltrate the movement and create distractions to try and discourage us and sabotage it. I believe that we live in the greatest country in the world. And when I wake up in the morning, man, I say, all things work together for good, for those who love God, and for those who are called according to his purpose. And I do believe that justice will prevail.

And a couple of things, I want to say about that to people listening. One that story is, you feel like you're there. I'm very hard to hear that. And I think there's also, you know, I want to honest to just hear this just sink in for a second because we're going to have such a great ride today. I'm picturing in that situation. It's very interesting. I picture your mother, even more than I hear you in that story. Your mother, by the way, you spent your whole life honoring this woman. Yes, because I'm here because the two women, one gave me life.

The other one gave me love. God took me out of my biological mother's womb in placement and harder by adopted mother. Mama, she only had a third grade education, but she had a Ph.D. of mother with. I always quote Abraham Lincoln when I speak and say all that I am and all that I hope to be I owed to my mother. She was quite a woman. She covered the ground. She stood on. Can you tell I was belly laughing a few weeks ago watching something you said, your mother made really good sweet potato pies.

That's one of the things she did. I just, do you remember what you said about? If you eat my mother's sweet potato pie, you got to do something before you eat it. You couldn't eat it with your shoes on. You're a shoe guard. So you can wiggle your toes. I just love that.

I just think that's beautiful. All right, I want, I love how much you honor your mother, man. I just, I love that. So let's, let's, let's get into all kinds of different stuff and I'm glad you shared your perspective and, you know, one of the things I've seen with you over the years too is I just think you're inherent goodness shines through. And you have a laugh. I'm just curious.

Is that an intentional thing you do that beautiful laugh of yours? Or is that just something that comes national to you? I mean, is it something you built up to disarm people when you're a younger person, when you spoke? Or is that just, that's just less brown? And he's made that my laugh make them laugh. I'm a happy person. and the reason I am, I believe that when you wake up in the morning, it's the best day of your life. If you don't believe in tried busy work. I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. You said that she, that's one that stoked this hunger in you. You've got this great book out right now. I want you to tell everybody about too, as it relates to being hungry.

And then why won't you to speak to how important this is to have hunger? I always say all the time, talent, brains, all of those things, that's one thing. But you give me somebody who's starving, who's hungry and coachable. I'll show you somebody that I can work with. Yes, hunger is what's required.

Now, when you look at over 50 million people of law-set jobs, and another 47 million projected by the various statistics indicates that it will be lost due to artificial intelligence. And so this is this era that Peter Drucker calls, the era of the three C's accelerated change over one in complexity and tremendous competition. So people now have to do what it is that you talk about.

One of the first things that I love that you talk about is that really your major superpower is your ability to communicate because attention is the new currency, the ability to attract attention, to hold the attention, and to direct the attention. And when you can communicate, you attract attention to yourself, for your business, for your club, your organization, for your movement, because people are looking at you and are asking three questions, who are you? What do you have? And why should I care? So you're able to attract attention to yourself, to your business, to your products, to your expertise. And then you have to hold the attention, part of what allowed me to

break through, that the speaking industry with a good old boy's network and and they were going around the speakers were giving speeches and regurgitating information as you are aware from the book, Thanking Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Well my mentor Mike Williams wrote the book called The Road to Your Best Stuff. The road to your best stuff. He said, Brownie, if information could change people, everybody would be skinny, rich and happy. Yeah, so what I do and how I train speakers is to use your story to create an experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that once a man or woman's mind has been expanded with an idea, concept or experience,

it can never be satisfied to go in back to where it was. So you attract the attention and with an experience that you create, the experience of your customer, the experience that you're able to create and that interaction with the people that you want to attract, that you then direct that attention. And there's a reason that Steve Jobs said the storytellers, the most powerful person in the world. And he knew that. Here's a guy to talk about a product and people are set up camp

outside the store for two and three days, sleeping outside to get something they haven't laid hands on. They just heard the story about it. A collusion brought in the book called The Profit. He said, more than thirst and hunger, humans need stories. Wow, so good. Facts tell story sell, right?

And by the way, how do they get the book? Let's not move off of that. How do they find this book? You can go to him, hungrylessbrown.com. I am hungrylessbrown.com. Part of that hunger less is getting territory. I love how you describe this, because the only person I've ever heard say this before,

you talk about how life and territory, I want you to stay at your way. I don't want to give it away, but I was actually sharing this with my son last night about you. Because I think it's one of the most powerful things I've ever heard. So please share it with a couple of million people for me. Yeah.

Life is a fight for territory. And once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over. Give you an example. 27 years ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. 27 years ago, my god. Yeah, it's a fourth stage cancer. And fourth stage, prostate cancer. My PSA was 2,400. And so Dr. Alfred Goson said Mr. Brown you have fourth stage cancer I said do he said yes and it's metastasized to seven areas of your body and is

Eating 43% of your T1 vertebrae I said whoa he said why why you smiling did you hear what I just said I said yeah he said why you smiling I said man seven it's my lucky number I was going to go to work in a 17th Joshua Marsha Rana walls of Jericho seven times name and dipped himself in a river Jordan seven times seven it's my lucky number we looked at his verses it this is a strange one a strange one. So I said, can you give me a second opinion? He said, yes. And you're ugly, too. You didn't go there. You're busy. He said, but you got this. You got this. I don't tell patients that they're terminally ill.

What I say is my knowledge and my ability and my skills have terminated. Now you and God figured it out. He determines the prognosis. You got this. And as a result, how people live their lives as you know, is result of the story. They believe about themselves. He interrupted my story. And I left there with a heart full of faith, not a heart full of fears. Ziggs said, most people in a fearful situation, they forget everything and run. But they're a small number. The road

to the right is straight in narrow. If you there be that find it, who face everything and rise. Oh my gosh. And so the people who listen to you when you speak and you, and when I say that you are the most talented speaker on the planet, is because when you speak, what you do is distract, dispute, and inspire. You distract people from their story. As you know, the psychologists call this self-explanatory style. And through the execution of your presentation or the guests that you interview, that you dismantle their current belief system,

and inspire them to become as Mother Teresa would say a pencil in the hand of God and start writing a new chapter in their lives. That's what you do with the products that you have, the guests that you have, and how you have decided that you are going to live a life that will outlive you. And God bless you for it. Live a life that will outlive you. Oh my gosh, everybody, I'm just sharing this treasure with you. So you've got to follow this man, you've got to get his book.

Guys, listen, a lot of people on my show that I admire, this man changed my life. I mean, there's a part of me, this is a very strange interview for me, Mr. Brown, because I'm in and out of it in my mind. I'm talking to Les Brown right now. I mean, I spent- Fascinated to be talking with you.

You don't know how often I've met you that said, this is my brother for my mother. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm speaking to you. Yeah, that was- How old are you? 50 this year. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're a twin. Yes. And when you were young, this is so hard for people to believe. They see

this man who can recite poetry and scripture and quotes at the like this, you know, to think that at some point you were labeled as, were you, you labeled as mentally retarded as a child? Well, I was in the fifth grade. I was labeled edgico-bomentary- Totted and put back from the fifth grade to the fourth graded Douglas Elementary School in Miami, Florida. And then when I was in the eighth grade, I failed again. But I had a man who was very much like you because I consider your master communicator, Mr. Leroy Washington. And I walked in his class looking for a friend. It was really a god moment. And he said, young man, go to a board and work this problem out for me. he said, young man, go to a board and work this problem out for me.

I said, sir, I can't do that. He said, why not? I said, I'm not one of these students. He said, do it anyhow. I said, I can't, sir. And the other students started laughing. And he's less late. He's got a twin brother, Wesley.

Wesley is smart. He's D.T. And he asked, what's D.T.? And they said, he's the dumb twin. And they erupted in laughter. And I said, I am, sir. And he came from around his D.T.? And they said, he's the dumb twin, and they erupted in laughter. And I said, I am, sir. And he came from around his desk, he looked at me, he said, don't you ever say that again?

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. Do you hear me? I said, yes, sir. He interrupted the story that I believed by myself. My mother said, sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you. But words do hurt deeply. But on that day, you know,

this dinjel was in a movie called Touching. He said, there are moments in life this, before this and there's after this. And after this, nothing will ever be the same again. And my life was interrupted because he interrupted this vision that had been planted in my mind by words, words of fact behavior. And that's why I'm excited about training people, how to create an experience to transform people individually and collectively because when we look at where we are, that's more important than ever before.

The cultures and hatred and divisiveness, all of these things are formatted with words, our lady came from me to train her from Australia and I said, why did you come to me? She said, when I look at all the divisiveness and hatred and violence, she said, it's done by a few people, but there's too many people are silent and I have a voice and I want to be a voice for love. I said, whoa, she did gave me goose gimples there. I love it. This teacher, speaking about that on voice

because the third thing was communication. I literally shared this with my son when he went away to college. This teacher stopped you when you were in that classroom, correct me if I'm wrong, and said, listen, there's three things you need to have if you're gonna prevail in this life. Yeah, everybody, this is where you right now,

if you've got children around you, you go grab them right now, because I've shared this with both of my children. This is compelling stuff right here because this was one of those moments where your life was not the same again after he delivers this message to you. Yes. Yeah. He said, you have to work on your mind. He was a person who believed in Earl Nightingale who said, you don't get in life what you want, you get in life, what you are, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, if you can determine what a man should think, you never have to concern yourself

in what he will do. If you can make a man feel inferior, you never have to compel him to seek it inferior status for he will seek it himself. And if you can make a man feel justly and outcast, you never have to order him to go to the back door. He'll go without being told. And if there's no door, he's very nature-willed to man one.

He said, develop your mind. Next thing he said, practice the principle of OQP, only quality people. Today, today, in order for us to make it, even before the coronavirus, the suicide rate in America had increased by 32%. Today, in order for us to make it, we have to create what we're doing now, collaborative achievement driven, supportive relationships.

One of the major issues we're facing right now is loneliness. And one of the major determinants of the long life, I thought it would be plant-based diet or becoming a vegetarian or a vegan or exercise. It's positive social relationships. That's the main factor. And the third thing that he said, Mr. Brown, develop your communication skills, young man. Because once you open your mouth,

you tell the world who you are. Your ability to communicate humanizes you. You explain it so well when you talk to people about the number one skill that they need, if they're negotiating, if they want advanced their careers, if they want to create a movement, they want to promote their business or promote themselves. That skill had, I not had that skill when I was fired from the working for the Mime Inc. sanitation department.

If I didn't have the ability to communicate, I would not have been able to be a salesman at Sears or do daughter-door sales. I would not have been able to become a disc jockey. I would not have been able to become a state legislator in Columbus, Ohio, and past 14 bills my first term. And I was elected the third term, three terms, and then my sister called me and said,

Leslie, you sitting down? What's wrong with mama? Mama has breast cancer. I said, I'll be right there. She said, Leslie, you don't have to come. We found a good nursing home for her. I said, listen to me. No. She adopted. Seven seven will be there when she takes their last breath. And I left that day. she takes their last breath. And I left that day, and I'll never forget when I run the doorbell, a friend of hers, name is Mildred, she came to the door. She said, oh my God, Mamie, Leslie's here.

And I heard my mother, a boy said, I knew my boy would come. I knew my boy would come. And I came in and her things were packed. I said, unpack everything. I said, mom, I'm here. I'm here. And so it's wow.

Wow. This, this thing with your mom, I was, do you know art Williams is, remember art Williams used to be a speaker? All you can do is all you can do. And all you can do is enough. But there you go. You can do all you can do. I study everybody. I know you do.

Listen to you. You zig-zag live. You give enough people what they want. They'll give you what you want. Jim Ron, when the end comes to you, let it find you confident and new mounted, not sliding down in old one. I study them.

Because the reason I ask you this is what I introduced you as the greatest speaker that I've ever seen. And by the way, I mean, that short changes. I believe greatest teacher, communicator that I've ever seen in my life. And the other one that made the impact on me was Art Williams. So I know you both agree with this. This is a, there was an amazing community. There still is. And so other one that made the impact on me was art Williams. I know you both agree with this is there was an amazing figure. It still is. And so I met him one time. And he

gave me a nice compliment about a talk I had given. And so I said, well, there's only there's two. I've ever seen in my life. And I said, it's you, Mr Williams. And I said, then less browns in a class all his own. And I said, he's so talented and gifted. And he stopped me. And this leads to your mother. Again, a situation that I know about,

I'd like you to share. And he goes, he's not that talented and gifted. He's a worker. He works less works at it. This is a skill he's developed. He wasn't born with this. He's worked at it. If you knew the people I know, this guy is on the road.

He works. And then I was listening to you. And this amazing, your mother's the steam in your life. But when you were a young boy, your mother lost the ability to work. And so I think the story is she starts sort of like making a little moonshine to sort of support the family, right? And something happens. And I think you're like 10 years old.

Something like this, right? And then you got to take over. Would you just share this? Because I think everything're like 10 years old, something like this, right? And then you got to take over. Would you just share this? Because I think everything happens for us, not to us. Our tests will be our testimony. And the messes of our lives don't disqualify us. I think so many people think this mess I'm in, this divorce, this business failure, this choice I made,

I'm not proud of, that I'm ashamed of it. It disqualifies me. My background, my upbringing, I'm disqualified. Turns out you can turn those things into be your testimony. And this situation with your mom, I think triggered this work ethic in you at a young age that art told me about. Yes, mom, she started selling home brewing moonshine.

And it was difficult for us at that time for her raising seven children. She was injured on a job. And so she promised our birth mother that these children will never go to bed hungry. We'll always have a roof over her head and and and close on our back. And a man came, I'll never forget what you're talking about. So you've done your research as much as I've been doing research on you. You and I so much alike. And and this guy, his name was Cal Hume, and he knocked on the door.

He said, Leslie, how are you doing? I said, fine. Mama always said, don't ever open the door without telling me. And I said, oh, hey, Mama, no, no, no, don't tell I've got two friends with me. We're going to surprise her. Open the door. And now open the door and let them come in. And one of the guys grabbed me. I was 10 years old and the throat and hit me. I'm side of the head and threw me up against the wall. And he said, she's back there in the room. And they went back there and Mama was selling

homebrew and moonshine. And he said, pull up the linoleon. And they pull up the linoleon. And she kept it under the floor of the house that we were in. And they brought Mama out and handcuffs. Oh, there. I said, Mama, I'm so sorry. And she said, it's okay, Leslie.

It's okay. And she'd never, ever, ever mention it when she came back. And so we don't have any relatives. We have adopted so many neighbors, they will come in and bring this food from time to time. And I would collect copper and aluminum. And sometimes stand in the corner. Hey boy, come over and get on the truck with older men to move heavy equipment.

But years later, fast forward, man, I had it in my heart. If I ever saw this guy get out killing. And boy, you know God, boy, he has the sense of human. Here I am talking to my young son, John Leslie, who's a speaker and trainer. I said, John Leslie, anger is a win that blows out the lamp of the mind. He said, what do you mean by that daddy? I said, don't allow anger to cuff and you never make a decision why you angry. It blows out the win of the mind. You make decisions and do things that you will regret later. At this time, a guy come over and tap my knee on the shoulder and he said, oh sir, I just want you to know,

we here in Manya are so proud of you. I had a talk show at Kingworld that paid me five million dollars to do that less around talk show. Now look, I'll never forget his face. I said to myself, oh my god, this cow home. Now here's my son here, and I'm looking this guy's face and put my mother jail. And man, I start, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I? It's just something you wait. I said, no, no, tell me. I gotta go. I said, let's get in the car. I gotta go. He said, what's happening, dad? Did I drove away for a while? And I've talked to my son to collect myself. I said, that man, and decided to collect myself. I said, that man, he's the one that put your grandmother in jail and I promised if I ever saw him again,

I would kill him. He said, oh God, that's a John Leslie. You know what? There's a God moment, he said, why? I said, I got that hatred out of my heart for him because you were here. I have to model what I'm teaching you. People say, practice what you preach. Oh God, put it in me.

I got to preach with other practice. I got to forget. And forgiveness is not forgiveness. It's remembering without anger. I forget him, but most of all I forgive myself. Please forgive me, God, for carrying this anger and hatred all these years. Yeah. It was a deep, I've never told this story before.

Oh my gosh. This thing, you know, for a bad point, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. That's all I got for sure about that. I can't believe you just shared that with us. Oh my gosh. Your life is one of the things about you less is that your life is such an example of what's possible. I mean, everybody, I want you just picturing this about this beautiful man.

I want you. This is a, he's born. His mother ends up giving him to adoption to Manie, he and his brother. They live in these conditions. He's 10 years old. His mother has to go away for a while. He's got to support the family. He's had all these incidents.

He said to observe up close. There are other ones with his mother when she's cleaning houses and this woman claps her hands because she's got to know when her mother's in a room because she's going to steal something which his mother would never do. This man goes on to influence millions, I mean, literally millions of people's lives.

And then this is what's great about all of us making our dreams come true. When you make your dreams come true, the dreams of other people and dreams you can't picture also come true, because then he influences this goofy dude, me, 20 something years old, working in an orphanage, and it inspires me to change my life.

So it's just your life is such an example. And it was interesting to me, less is it was mainly tied to mom, meaning you wanted to do something great for your mother, all your life. And that was bigger, I think, than any obstacle to got in your way. I'd like you to share this with people because I think most people don't understand the power of having something bigger going after that means more to you than the pain you're going to have to go through in order to get it. I don't think enough people set huge big goals that are from the heart. Don't you agree? Yes, you said that. I was listening to you last night. You know, Dexter Yeager, as you know from Amway, he said, it the dream is big enough, the odds don't matter.

And so when you say dream big, that's major. One, this power and pursuit, because as Jim Rowan said, it's not the accomplishment of the goal that matters. It's what you become in pursuit of the dream, in the process, because when you have a big dream, it will introduce you to a part of yourself that you don't know right now, that you will never discover in your comfort zone.

Because in order to achieve that dream, you've got to die to who you are now. I must die daily. You must die to who you are now to give birth, to who you ought to become. I believe that all of us have stories of greatness in us. And follow me as I say this, this time. We all have stories of greatness within us.

In the beginning was the word. Thou shalt agree with things, shalt be established. Until you win, sh'll a king of God come Seek ye first the king of God his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you when she'll it come The king of God cometh not by observation. They shall say is neither low there Low here behold the king of God is within you and that kingdom is voice God is within you and that kingdom is voice activated. So when you speak, people who in a dark place, you will bring them out into the light. When you speak, somebody's got a gun to their head.

When you speak, they realize life is God's gift to me and I'll live my life is my gift to God. When you speak, someone who's depressed and feeling anxious, we'll remember be anxious for nothing. I'll keep the imperfect piece whose mind is stayed on deep. So that's the power that you bring and all the products that you have on YouTube that I've I mean how ironic they said coincidence of God's way of staying anonymous. I've been so married and listening to your stuff. And then you've been listening to me.

Come on, what, look at God, what a mighty God. We serve God. Who can't make this stuff up? That's like my honor to think that you listen into my stuff, I gotta tell you. You guys, you know, you just get what I, I start, I told you all, you can just have this treasure. It's like, you never wanna stop hearing from less.

And he's just, he's just remarkable. And the way you pull things and download them from all these places, it's just, it's mind blowing. I wish I were that great. You are the messenger and you are the message. That's made. You've got people who are speaking out here. It's been hijacked with speaking to cell.

We sell people on their greatness. We sell people on the things that they need to do now. The methods, the techniques, the strategy to create the next greatest version of themselves. And when we do that, we know that when we make that kind of impact, we know that we're in the place of what Leo Toystor, the Russian author, he said, and purpose of my life that will not be undone and destroyed when I'm gone. But people that listen to your program and their mind and their vision has been expanded. You give them a vision of themselves beyond the adversities of what they're experiencing in this place that where we are right now. And help them to begin to live a life from a place of optimism that they're going to impact other people and those people are going to impact other people and

this work that you as much as you have chosen this, you were chosen for this and this work will not be undone. You're going to impact generations yet on board. Thank you. My gosh. I get chills all over one of the I want to I want I I'm always watching you right. And so thank you for that. Like sincerely. I you someone or something could not be more special to me than what you've just said. I want you to also watch something with less everybody. He speaks greatness into people. I really believe that that's a, it seems small, but he speaks greatness into people. He speaks to their better self. All of his messages always end with there's greatness in you. And I just think that all of us should just be conscious of this. I'd be making a huge mistake. I have

the greatest speaker I've ever seen on my show. Is there anything you would impart on to somebody who's listening to says, I'd like to be a better communicator? Are there a couple keys that the best ever would share with me about how I could become a better communicator if I'm listening or watching the show right now? You know, the Serena Williams has considered a dominant tennis player on the planet, but she has a coach. Muhammad Ali said, I'm the greatest, but he never won a championship without Angela Dundee. Michael Jordan considered one of the great basketball players, but he never won a championship without Phil Jackson.

I was with my Angela, I had the honor of spending a day with her. And she said, it aggravates me when they say that I'm a gifted communicator. And I said, why? She said, show me a gifted hot surgeon. I work at this. She said, do you see these books around here? I said, yes, ma'am. When I was raped and I went into a Catholic state and didn't speak, my grandmother brought a lady here to help me and to tutor me. And she said, I want you to start there and start reading these books and give me a report. And she said, one day she came to this lady and she had written something she was very proud of. And she went, and this lady said, you can talk. Read it to me. She said, you can talk and her mother was standing there and didn't intervene and her mother always defended her.

And this woman who wrote, I know why the Caj bird sings. She said, you can talk, talk now. And the reason she stopped talking, when she told her uncle, the man, the neighbor who raped her, they beat him to death. And she felt personally responsible and went into a catatonic state.

And on that day, she said, she said, speak, you can speak. And she started reading on that day. And that lady helped her to get her voice back. She had swallowed her voice because of the trauma of feeling as a young kid, I called someone to be killed because he raped me. And that was having for her. And so, all of us are born the same way, dumb, naked, and speechless. We can learn. I didn't do what I'm doing now for 14 years.

I told Mike Williams, I said, Mike, I can't speak. Man likes the exhibit. He said, you can. I said, look, Tony Robbins, the Dolpholes guys. He said, Browning, you go here, those guys, because it's in you. That's in you. And sometimes I feel you. And sometimes I feel that you have to believe in somebody's belief in you until your belief kicks in. And I almost had an event. I think it was a bar proctor of that. And a guy was speaking, man. And here I am there. And all of us had moments when we feel a speaker is just talking to us. You've had people who say, you, you, you, you, you, you were talking to me and, and this was my day. And this guy was speaking, he stopped. He said, hmm, there's somebody here who should be up here holding this mic. I'm standing in your dream. And you've convinced yourself that you can't do it.

You don't have what it takes. And I'm here to say that it's not what you don't have is what you think you need in order to do this. I'm on you. You know, I'm here thinking, I don't have a college education. And so then anyone on speaking, he's going to say this? And I'm not going say anymore. You are there squirming in your seat right now He said he was looking over all these I'm saying to myself that this guy and looking for me

And then he said the reason I'm standing up here and you have seated out there squirming in your seat I represent the thoughts you have rejected for yourself. Man, that's like he punched me in the gut. I jumped up, I had a dime. I went to a pay phone, I call Mike Wheat, he was my mentor. I said, Mike, he said, Brownie, what's wrong? I said, listen to me, Mike Brownie, calm down.

No, I'm not rejecting myself anymore. Do you hear me. No, I'm not rejecting myself anymore. Do you hear me, Mike? I'm not rejecting myself anymore. My mother has breast cancer, is she beast me? You know, all I got is this one boy's maker. I can't get a job, I don't have a college education. All I got is the ability to talk to people. I got to use my voice, stay out, mom.

No job is going to pay me enough money to get the help that she needs. Most people don't know. 95% of people who follow bankruptcy ruptures do so because of medical expenses and when he said that I said I Got to speak there's an African proverb that says if there's no enemy within the enemy outside Could do us no harm Shakespeare said the Fort Debrutus is not on our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

I was living a small life, and you can't fit a big dream or big voice, in a small mind. Oh my gosh, come on. What? By the way, it's crazy, it's God so good. I gave it, talk this weekend. I gave one quote, which was that African proverb

you just quoted, but my gosh, that story. All right, everyone, I know you want less here four hours. I do too, but we don't get him. So I have one more question for you that I think is the big, big, big, big. But before I do that, make sure you're following Mr. Brown on social media, on Instagram. Make sure you've got that book.

We're putting the website up on the screen right now. If you're hungry or need to be hungry or you're listening to this, I know you are. Go get his new book. And then last thing is, you talk about that big, huge dream. I've got millions of people right now that get access to this wisdom. And they're sitting there, they're listening to this show,

they're saying, I have a dream too. I wanna do something great with my life. And I'm you less, I'm sitting in the crowd of life trembling, thinking I don't have what it takes. But there's a part of me that I want to be happier. I want to prosper. I want to make my family proud of me. I want to be proud of me. I want to serve God. And I just do not know where to begin. And so I'm listening to the Ed My Let's Show every week, picking up these pieces, but now I've got less brown. What would less brown say to me if we were one-on-one and I said, Mr. Brown, I've got this dream,

whatever it is, what would your guidance be to me if you were my mentor to begin with? Never say I don't know what it is that I got. What's most important, commit thy works into the Lord and thy thoughts, you'll be established, commit yourself to do that, which is in your heart. You were not born born to work for living, but to live your making and living your making will make your living. We get paid to work on a job. That's what we get paid for.

But your calling is something you're made for. What is it that you would do free? Something that you love it so much, you do it for free, and you do it so well that people will pay you to do it. That's your dream. That's your superpower. And do that,

because if it's something that resonates with you, it's something that's in your heart, where your heart is, there is your treasure is also. There's a young man that he prepares vegetarian meals for me. Man, this guy is good. And I can tell that the energy that he brings with this food, he said, man, he said, this, the calling on my life, it's a ministry to him. It's a difference of being in something and that's something being in you. Remember, A.L. Williams said, all you can do is all you can do.

And all you can do is enough. But make sure you do all you can do. We always go all in on something that we love. What's in your heart? Because where your heart is, there your treasure is also. In my book, I say, live a heart centered life. My heart's filled with gratitude today. This is a dream come true for me, everybody.

And what's great is that exceeded my expectations, which were hugely high before we began today. So it's my honor. And thank you so much for the time today. And everybody, please follow last. Please get the book. And by the way, with me, make sure you're following me on Instagram every day.

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You get max out gear. All kinds of wonderful things. If you missed the first two minutes, just make a comment every day on every post and you're in a drawing. Last thank you again. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you so much. Continue to be the light that you are and continue to pursue your greatness because when you're pursuing your greatness, you don't know what your limits are. So you act like you don't have any symbol. You're more like what you have become.

You're more like what you have become. Oh my God. Couldn't you listen all day, you guys? I told you. All right, everybody. God bless you. Max out. Thank you. I love you, my brother.

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