Guys people on today's show I break down a life in times of Colonel Harlan Sanders That's right the man that you know who is the face of KFC that finger licking good chicken We're gonna explore his story the ups and downs the if it swings the challenges and the successes We've been gonna find out how he got the name Colonel all in the event in the point of wanting to make you cook Yo chicken and after you do that sit back relaxing enjoy the inspiration. This is My wife thinks I'm crazy. How do we get here? I can't believe y'all let me have a show I see you let me admire you he gave you vision and purpose, but you struggle to dream because the seed was on Wasn't this the a jeans but was in them was denim.
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I used to work at KFC KFC Taco Bell I was about I think I was 15 16 years old. It was a KFC and Taco Bell at the same time I don't know if they still do that, but I'm not gonna lie to you. That was some that was some good. I was some good food You know I'm saying We had plenty of nights me and my cousin don't want to use the worker We had plenty of plenty of nights where we went home with some free KFC because at least at the time that I work there You know, let me explain myself the manager allowed this to happen first of all is a lady named Kim You know, I don't know her last name and it's a million Kim's in the world So, you know you safe, but if you out there, you know Kim You was letting us take that chicken home and then pies and I appreciate you for it Frigida was full of chicken and parfaits and but at the end of the night though into my defense, you know, number one I was a kid, but at the end of the night like whatever chicken We didn't sell had to get thrown away.
So the way I see it, you know, I'm saying the way I see it It was better in my belly than in a trash can so anyway That was that was some fun times man working at KFC and I realized like working at KFC that I actually still never knew The secret recipe, you know, and it's not like I was a cook. I was a cashier. That was a sidebar cool thing All of the fast food restaurants I worked at growing up which was KFC Taco Bell worked at McDonald's twice I was always the cashier. I always got the easy job and when McDonald's actually in college my second McDonald's job My job was to pass out the food through the drive-through You know how I got that?
It was like the first night I was there that was where they needed help and I jumped in like Oh, I got it. I passed out the food and it's like I just became my job I did the cashier and sometimes there but mostly I was the pass out the food at the drive-through guy Which was cool into other students that I knew started coming up and expecting free food that I never gave them anyway back to KFC Work there as a kid and I was a cashier. I did have to make co-slotto Which was very very irritating. I don't eat co-slough and I did not enjoy the smell of it And I don't know if y'all want to go through how they made it at least this look This is I'm not I don't know the new KFC might be doing something different.
This is when I was a teenager So I'm not trying to act like this was like, you know yesterday But what I will tell you is that we put the coast like it was like this big not bucket like this rolling bucket type thing You like coming a bag you dump it in there you mix it. Yeah, anyway, you know No offense to the KFC people out there. Y'all might be have better tactics and making the coast a lot of these days But they had your boy back there pulling bags of co-slough in the bucket and people was eating it like crazy So there you have it. I grew up working tough jobs I've been working since I was 13 years old actually had my first job at 13 And I don't know if there was a year that I haven't been working since then I think there might have been one year And I don't remember what age maybe one year that I haven't worked since 13 years old so I've done a bunch of little jobs and Today I want to talk about a man that we all know, you know, Colonel Sanders and You know what I like to do on this show is about faith and business right in balancing faith and business to guide you to your purpose And one of the things I like to do with a lot of things in life is to go back and look at like I look at the landscape of today Right, so I look at all the businesses that exist All the things around me sometimes I just drive down the street and I look at all the signs And I'm like man all of these signs represent a dream and you know So I'm driving on the street I see the different restaurants KFC Taco Bell, you know You see the stores and sometimes I think we just take it for granted because if you live in a nice area or something You just used to driving down that street used to see in all those signs and it feels like they always been there But I love backtracking and understanding like you know what I Like how did Colonel Sanders where does do come from first of all?
I know he wasn't always oh, you know I'm saying cuz for me is like I see Colonel Sanders I'm like it's just a old guy old guy white here you feel what I'm saying and um, you know, that's not the case obviously So I did a little bit of research and in particular a few websites biography.com There was something on the University of Houston u H dot edu in the last reference I can't remember I didn't write it down. I'm sorry, but um, you know I just went through a few articles and things that were written You know and wanted to kind of understand across reference the story things lined up So I'm gonna talk about that today and what we're gonna do is we're gonna share Colonel Sanders story And then we just don't unpack the pieces of it and the entire goal of going through this exercise today is for you to Kind of reverse engineer what this dream was like for us to look and say y'all like what was the dream? How did it come together? And then hopefully we can find some lessons in there for ourselves as we are maybe living in our dream You know and a lot of times I believe that when you're living in something you take it for granted one thing I think I think I for and maybe I don't know Maybe this is good.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I try to I try to live in my story and what I mean by that is Is that you know like today You know we'll read through some things and talk about some things that Colonel Sanders did to develop KFC And it all sounds good in the past you give it up saying like everything sounds good when it already happened because you can Romanticize it like if I talk about growing up in the hood for instance, right? I'm telling the truth, but you can always romanticize I can see here and be like, you know It was a dark cold night and our car was stolen and you know and that did happen like it really happened But it just I don't know it's something about Being able to understand the moment that you were living in like when I was growing up in the hood I knew I didn't want to be there personally I knew I wanted to get out and I wanted to do better things for my life personally But I also wasn't just completely aware of even what it meant to be there and have a dream So today I want you to be aware of your dream That's really to go as we talk through this and look at Colonel Sanders story in his situation But I want you to be aware of where you're at in your story now again like Maybe I'm a little weird, but I I live my life like I'm in the story I try to be aware of what I'm doing try to be aware of my decisions now I ain't always been like that But just understanding like when you read people's story and you see the peaks and valleys and a little decisions or the people They met along the way that had a huge impact You also realize that sometimes people can have a huge impact or situations can have a huge impact on your life But when you tell the story back they can be overlooked So I want you to listen for those things in Colonel Sanders story as well So that again, we don't take for granted the story that we're living the life that God has given us and I think one of the most difficult things now is that there are so many expectations put on people according to like their age Demographic like there's this idea of what you should be doing, right? And I want you to get that out of your mind outside of living for God Progressing forward, you know, like being productive like definitely you want to be doing that But the idea that like hey by 25 you should have a B and C Let's get out of that and let's make it more about no about 25 by 35 by 45 55 Whatever my age is I should be going in the direction of my purpose That's really the goal of this show to guide you to your purpose not to give you all the answers to the test and say Hey, you you're supposed to be doing this by 30. You should have two houses by 40 like no The idea is not to put limits on you but to take limits off And that's why we challenge your comfort on this show I always want to challenge your comfort zone because everybody's comfortable We kick in our feet up and what we're doing is we're just doing what people are doing around us and a lot of times That's because we don't recognize our story.
We don't recognize the time that we live in brief example before I move forward You know, I said this before I Try to honor my parents and honor my family and honor my grandparents by taking advantage of things that I have Opportunities that I have that they didn't have I get an exact real life example, right? I work in corporate America. Y'all know that work for a fortune 50 organization But I speak on behalf of myself on this show That's why I don't even mention the name of the company I work for so that way I'll have to deal with all of that And you know give you the I don't want you to even have the second guess like is he talking like for him or talking for the No, I'm talking for me. I'm talking for me.
Yeah, I'm talking for me Everything is a song in my mind. What's my point working for a fortune 50 organization grew up in a time where Access to education became more prevalent especially for people like myself from where I'm from and You know my parents didn't have that number one is because think about this like My parents were roughly born in like the 60s, right? I think all of them might have been born in the 60s So if they born in the 60s and then you know, they parents were various ages But let's just say that their parents was born in the 20s on average or something like that, right? And I don't I don't know that for sure.
Um, let's say the 30s Let's say their parents were born in the 30s that make more sense the 30s are the 40s All right, so if their parents were born in the 30s and 40s, right? So you're talking about what's unique is We're gonna get into it, but hey right around the time KFC like some of this story overlaps at the time of my grandparents That's another thing I do when I'm looking at business and unpacking stories I try to understand the story based on the time that they were living in all right I'm making a point here So just follow me I'm sorry to just taking a long time to get to the KFC story Which is probably what you really want to hear but I promise this is impactful my point is if my grandparents were you know Living in the 40s and the 50s. I have to think about the world they were living in in the 40s and 50s And then so I have to understand what the world looked like what was the landscape of the world? What were the opportunities?
What could people do? You know, you listen to this show, you know, I'm black I don't use that as an excuse. I'm not a victim You don't have to feel sorry for me But I do like to um, you know talk about things from the perspective of the like that I've lived and you know The things that I've studied and the way that I see it, you know, just my perspective Uh, but one of the things about it is I like to be realistic about the fact like yo if my grandma was walking around in 1950 like She couldn't even drink out of the same waterfall and as a white person let alone get promoted next to a head of or even being a Competition for a particular job with a white person. Well, okay, if that if that was my grandmother's reality, right?
Then my grandmother raised my parents with her based on her worldview because that's what we do in this life, right? I've interviewed so many people on this show and you know what's funny? What always organically comes up in the conversation? How they were raised and what role their parents did or didn't play in their life?
Our parents shaped so much of our lives that it's crazy how we grew up shapes our lives You're gonna hear that in the KFC story as well. Colonel Sanders life was literally shaped by his parents Rather be directly or indirectly we all go through it So if my if my grandparents are you know living in the 40s and 50s and you know raising their kids in the 60s They're raising their kids in the 60s based on 40s and 50s experience you get what I'm saying? So then now my parents they are you know being raised in the 60s and 70s Right and then if they start having eight kids in the 80s then they're raising their kids in the 80s Based on 60s and 70s experiences, right? So then I have to understand the world and the opportunities that they were given But think about things that they might have been told opportunities that they might have been given It was so different back then you're talking about now being being raised and born But my parents right in the heart of the civil rights era So you got Martin Luther King and all these people and all these marches and things those things shaped their life, right?
So then you got like me being me and my siblings born in the 80s and the 90s, right? And so so much of What we knew like to be even what we were taught in school was based on the 60s and the 70s I learned a lot about the civil rights era in school Martin Luther King and then you know get to like that Young adult or college. I was in college You know so young teenager or older teenager however you look at it I guess 18 year old or whatever is a younger daughter or whatever it might be You know you get to those ages and then we start having things like you know, 9-11 and stuff like that So what is my point with all it is? You know in the early 90s the internet was the opportunity That's where the jobs were going.
That's where the people you see who are the richest people in the world today A lot of them they were living in that time and they were building their businesses in that time What is my point? My point is that life is so much of a narrative that kind of goes from generation to generation And sometimes we take for granted that because we look at life like hey, it's always been like this Hey, why am I gonna go work at a fortune 50 company and get promoted like I'm getting promoted like what's wrong with her? What's up with my pops like no it's because they didn't have those opportunities now they can still create other opportunities now, right? And in that for them in their generation they have to somehow break themselves from Everything that their parents might have shaped in their mind because the past sometimes is the past and you make you have to respect and understand and maybe be Educated on the past but you cannot live in it.
What's my point with all that being said? I try to honor my parents with everything that I do now as much as I can because I understand that my parents and grandparents could not go And get you know and you know by the grace of God like even just since the pandemic like I didn't had Two two three different jobs. Maybe two like I've been I don't remember I guess depends on how you look at the year. I came into I ended 2019 with the job got a new job in 2020 Then got another promotion at the top of 21.
So my current job that I'm doing now I got that promotion last year and my point is this when in my parents life that that exists Working at a fortune 50 organization and let me let me be clear with this I'm not creating an excuse for my parents or people what I'm saying is that it wasn't as likely because I'm sure there it happened My point is that it wasn't as likely It's way more likely for me now. So I try to live and understand the opportunity So if I'm living in 2022 as much as I should respect Understand the civil rights the challenges maybe with being black or whatever it might be I can't live in that meaning I can't live like it's 1965 I can't even live like it's 1985 now. That doesn't mean 2022 doesn't have its own unique problems and situations and challenges But what I'm saying is that 2022 ain't 1965. I know like this week was Martin Luther King week I went to Martin Luther King high school in Detroit like you know I'm saying like we shut honor and black history month is coming up I'm with it all you know I'm saying I love to honor respect my people and celebrate my people and celebrate the history of things that black people have done But I don't live as if I think I'm a grandma When my grandma couldn't walk around and look a white man in the eyes of she was walking down the street That's what she told me and she's like 84 85 years old.
What's my point with all of this stuff that I'm saying Living 22 and take advantage of the opportunities in 2022 You can respect the history you can educate yourself on the history But don't tell me white black yellow green gold don't sit here and miss the opportunities of a lifetime in your lifetime Some of us miss the opportunities of a lifetime because we are not living in the reality of our lifetime We are stuck in someone else's lifetime based on the real life challenges that they had and we spend most of our time trying to validate The problems that somebody had before us don't get me wrong that has a place And I know I'm going off on a little bit of a tangent right now But what I'm saying is I see so much in society where we're wasting time because we don't understand the time that we live in So today I want you to think of your life and your story And and let me say this because I don't want nobody to take this wrong because a lot of times people would try to politicize things When that I say or like that I try to speak from the heart This isn't from any political angle or anything like that This is not to prove any politician or the left or the right Like I'm just speaking from my heart and what I am saying is also again I believe in respecting honoring educating myself on the history Also understanding that the people before me had disadvantages But I don't honor them by creating making their disadvantages my reality I honor them by taking advantage of the things that I am able to do and looking at like yo I might have it bad, but it ain't as bad as my grandma It ain't as bad as my mama. So let me not complain about how bad I got it when they would have been excited to have it this bad That's what I'm talking about being rooted in gratefulness Not overlooking or um, you know diminishing like or forgetting what people went through not in that way or dishonoring it But saying hey, I could celebrate the challenges and the things that my parents and my grandparents overcame without living and accepting them as my reality And again, I might have some different issues on my reality But it ain't what grandma and mama had okay. Hopefully that makes sense Let's move on before I lose some listeners and I don't want to lose no listeners I appreciate y'all listening while you're listening also be aware that we also um are now we I mean me starting to record at least one To YouTube videos a week. So search and spy your guys people on YouTube or better yet Look in the description of today's show and I put the link for the channel in there I think we up to like 128 subscribers, you know, I'm saying I ain't complaining at all I'm appreciating every single person is listening we're getting like 20 25 views for a video You know, I'm saying way less than the podcast listens by the way, which means that you are a podcast listening around here Not subscribing to my YouTube channel.
I'm putting in all this hard work to make the video Oh, man Y'all know I hate making videos, right? I'm just I'm trying to get comfortable being a video person I'm just low-key. I don't really I don't really need to be all in the camera like I don't take selfies and It's just not me man. I'm just I'm more low-key I'm trying to chill and just do what I do but I'm trying to embrace it trying to be consistent So y'all pray for me and um, you know, I don't know, you know, I'm not basing it on the numbers So success to me ain't about how many subscribers or whatever, but I want you to subscribe though I want you to subscribe, but I don't care but I want you to subscribe Ain't it funny how we talk ourselves do things look at the end of the day I do want to be able to share this content with people and I hope is that over time it grows But I'm very patient and I'm also not, you know, able to make videos every single day I'm you know, I'm super busy So I'm making them I'm being consistent trying to provide content and sometimes taking the topics from this show and slicing them up in a different way Maybe in a quicker format and maybe even making a couple different points So inspired inspired inspired to inspire I can talk people subscribe to inspire guys people on YouTube Alright, let's get into the story Colonel Sanders KFC, you know what matter of fact Let me give you 30 seconds of a song I don't know if y'all like that or hate it when I share songs But listen I created all this music through the years You can get these songs I don't even know what I'm about to play I'm about to pull up some of my music You can also find my music check with music on Spotify Apple music anywhere else where music is found And also look in the description of today's show click some easy links and check out some of my music Alright, let's find us on the play just for 30 seconds.
Come on, man. Be careful. Be careful or be patient Yeah, no, don't complain. Alright, listen to the music And you're feeling down everything I work for Is here now if I keep my faith high in my fear down Everything I'm ready for is here now Cause I kept my faith high in my fear down I kept my faith high in my fear down So everything I'm ready for is here now I made it through all my struggles Fear down I made it through all my faith Lord, I thank you for keeping me when I wanted to feel Fear down Yes, I wanted to feel You brought me up by the way Yeah, you brought me up by the way Show me a better way Faith high Fear down Faith high You just heard faith high fear down That is a song that is not even finished yet Started working on that with the homie red what I read if you out there you probably like Man, why are you sharing new music that ain't even done?
Yeah, bro I don't know just sneaking and throwing it on the podcast. Um, I haven't finished that song That is weird. I'm gonna be real with y'all right as we talk about like Um, like living in the time of your life like right now Like understanding not just what it means for right now But what it means for the future One of the things that I'm doing music is I'm learning the transition of the purpose You know, um You know in my 20s, I was really traveling doing music You know what I'm saying and like kind of Booked on the weekends and stuff like that And my 30s it's like started slowing down, you know A little bit, you know what I'm saying and um Kind of like uh on and off or whatever Obviously with COVID I haven't done a lot But right now I'm just trying to figure out like You know as I continue to grow and mature and um as business becomes such a huge part of my life and this podcast and inspire guys people Like I know that I'm not really trying to wrap and like go around and like, you know what I'm saying Like I don't necessarily want to be booked to go wrap somewhere So I'm just like refining the purpose that in the road that rap plays in my life and music plays in my life It'll still be there if for no other reason like this podcast and just sharing Uh the portfolio and continue to build kind of the work because my music is a part of my content My life's worked, you know, but yeah, just keep me in prayer on that man Just trying to figure out like what road does it exactly play any and what my inspiration is for it So You know, what do I I've always made music based on like how I genuinely feel Um as far as like stylistically and things like that so Um, I don't feel the same way I felt 10 years ago, you know, I don't feel the same way I felt Um really five years ago. So just trying to follow um where the lord is leading me and where my purpose and my motivation and inspiration are so That's kind of I shared those type of things because as y'all as y'all listen to this show Just like with the youtube stuff and all that man I'm sharing that stuff because um number one I'm human and it's is real stuff But you know my goal with this show is to be able to give people behind the scenes and like because people will look at you when you're doing something Especially like, you know, oh, it's by your guys people podcast y'all to hear me say, you know, people listen in all these different countries and stuff It's been a blessing but I'm not ahead of myself.
You know what I mean? I'm not like I haven't arrived or I'm again I'm living I understand the moment that I'm living here. I understand Um, or at least I'm beginning and growing in my understanding of what it all means. So there you have it faith high fear down Um, hopefully the message in that song is pretty pretty clear and straightforward That song isn't out anywhere yet.
So if you want to listen to it again, you got to rewind the show and play that back Now let's jump into this kernel sander story, man. A couple things I want to share around this Um, his name kernel kernel heart harlot. I can talk It's so funny because y'all probably really think like homie can't talk man. I don't know I I guess I'll just really be stumbling over my words sometimes kernel harlot Sanders Uh, is actually his name.
So I want to say this one this one thought that I had when I was kind of putting this together and it was like Uh, he was born in night. No, he died in 1980. So uh spoiler alert I just told you when he died died in 1980 at 90 years old and I had this thought when I was reading this I'm like he died before I was born but I still ate that chicken Like I know who he is and I ate that chicken like what's the what point am I trying to make with that? Remember I told y'all that's going to be a lot for us to grab from this story And as I think about like understanding the time that I'm in in my life and understanding what the decisions that you make with your life me, you know, um Things live beyond you things that you do and a lot of times, you know, we again We romanticize things that have passed and people have passed so not everything is exactly as you hear it or um as it's presented today But you know, listen, that kfc chicken was good, man Like that's that that little secret recipe is good.
I actually haven't had kfc Um and quite some time now, but My point with that is just that you know, here's a person where we never walked earth at the same time And I worked at kfc You know what I'm saying? Like that's powerful to me like you could make a decision today That a hundred years from now when you are no longer walking the earth it can affect somebody else or give someone else an opportunity Like colonel Sanders gave me an opportunity to have a job At kfc and we never even lived on earth at the exact same time That's powerful though. That is like the things that we don't think about that I think could be powerful if you think about it while you're living, you know, maybe you know, sometimes maybe he was just making chicken He wasn't thinking about like, hey, this is young black dude and Detroit doesn't need a little job We gonna get him up in kfc and he gonna you know be taking home free chicken and parfaits He didn't know I was taking the chicken but you know, he cooked the chicken and gave me an opportunity What opportunities are you creating for the future generations with the decisions that you make today? Alright, let's jump into the story And I might be a little all around the place with the timeline because honestly I took my notes like really just all over the place Uh, the first thing I really have is like again understanding the timing uh, the great depression was from 1929 to 1933 There's aspects of the elements of the story that overlapped that time frame So he was born in 1890, right?
So when you think about the fact that he was born in 1890, just keep in mind, you know what I mean 40 He would have been 40 years old in 1930 which would have been, you know, really right in the heart of the great depression So I'm bringing that up because I know that we're living through a pandemic right now or in a pandemic is really an What is an endemic by now? Um But my point is like, you know, there are so many excuses that could be created based on the challenges at the time that you live in But your challenges are your challenges They are not intended for you to fold and walk away from and cower down to they are intended for you to conquer You get what I'm saying? Like the bible really inspires me because Daniel lived in a time where you could be thrown into a lion's dean You feel what I'm saying? Like you could be thrown into a lion's dean and he faced that and he did not cower down to that You get what I'm saying?
And so I really like the idea. I mean, David lived in a time where you could have to fight a Naphid giant, you know, however, I just knocked the exact height. I don't know how to talk a life was off top my head It was a tall dude might have been nine feet. What is my point?
That was the challenge of his time You know, if if Goliath is front-end standing in front of you, you can't be acting like he not So what's my point? This story took place during the Great Depression I think that's worth noting because it means that economically the world just wasn't in some thriving situation All right, so Man at six years old colonel Sanders, right harlin Sanders He wasn't a colonel body and you'll understand how he got the name colonel later at six years old his father died Now remember when I talked about like the importance of our parents and their impact on our lives Well, his father died at six years old. What impact do you think they had on his life? Well, first things first it put him in a situation where he had to really take care of his younger siblings Again, keep in keeping mind the times he's living in you talking 1895 1896 And so during that time, you know, he was like he had to step up and it was interesting to me because by the age of seven He had mastered most of the homemade meals of that time, right?
So whatever they were cooking during that time He had mastered them by seven years old. He was the primary cook in his high household by seven years old seven seven years old So because his father died it affected his life because it catapulted him into a leadership position in his house Man Man, now they you know, he had his mother. He actually thanked his mother Um, I read a quote, you know, he thinks his mother and honors his mother But clearly during that time, it's like hey, somebody got to step up and be the man and at six years old He was ready to do that now. Here's what's amazing to me It wasn't just that he had to step up because imagine it's not understanding the time you're living in again Not gonna talk about the passing of his father understand the challenge there So i'm not minimizing that right don't want to um kind of overlook that or speak Um about that in a way.
Um, that's the meaning at all So like let's take out the the death of his father meaning the actual death or how he mourned his father That's not where dealing with what we're talking about is the fact that he had a situation where he was catapulted into leadership And how did he respond to that not morning of father? How did he respond to the situation? In that situation, he stepped up to the plate. He mastered all of the home cooked meals in one year This tells me he must have embraced the opportunity or the challenge he must have stood up and said all right I got younger siblings.
I'm gonna step up to the plate. This is the challenge of my time I'm gonna stand up to the plate and i'm gonna figure it out. I'm not gonna call her down I'm not gonna stay in the room and say how we don't eat. I'm gonna get up.
I'm gonna do some cooking Now here is the amazing part of that. He became the primary chef in his household by seven years old Which means which tells me that kfc wasn't the first time he cooked chicken Now this is important because in this show we always talk about the process And I don't ever want to overlook the process right and so many times we want things that happen fast in our life And we actually minimize and overlook what's happening now what God is doing today What God is even doing with the thing that you are challenged with listen colonel sanders harlan sanders your father dad That is not a good thing but because you stepped up into this situation You are going to be a master chef. You are going to be a great cook and you don't know it yet But 60 years from now that cooking that you doing today at six years old is going to benefit your life tremendously The 60 years is important because I call that the meantime Like see dave it was anointed as the king at 15 years old But in the meantime He served in the kingdom in different capacities. He did some things in music playing music for saw He ended up being a soldier in in the um in the army, right?
He was an elite soldier actually That was the meantime so many times for us. We want we you know, hey god told me something like hey He's i'm he anointed me to be a king literally anointed with oil samuel on your head 15 years old Most of us by 16 like hey cool. Yeah, I was anointed a 15. Where the kingdom at?
Where's my kingdom and we ready to test some stuff up If if we don't get it now y'all about the test of up. I'm telling you right now about the tear stuff up Was my point in the meantime was 15 years for dave The difference between the time that you got anointed to the time that you embraced the kingdom was the meantime Joseph was 17 years old when god gave him a dream in the meantime You talk in 1920 years before the dream came into fruition in his mid 30s in the meantime He was sold into slavery by his brothers in the meantime He was loud on by potted for his wife and thrown into prison in the meantime. He took a leadership position in the kingdom in the meantime The question is What are you doing in the meantime? Also understanding your mentality in the meantime is going to be an important factor of you when god blesses you in your time When your time comes when it comes into fruition when faith manifests what you do and how you act in the meantime matters Don't mean you ain't gonna have challenges in the meantime either Which is what some of us struggle with because we think in the meantime is just a beautiful time And there are aspects of it that is but the reality of it is in the meantime You might have some ups and downs So kurtl Sanders, I'm sorry at six years old you go through this tragedy and you start cooking Probably well before you could understand how cooking would change your life in the lives of others See there are some things that god does in our lives in the meantime that we overlook a skill set and ability a time that you were persistent Um something that you obtained education quote something happened to you in the meantime that you might have overlooked That is going to be the very thing that god can use to change your life once you embrace it All right, let's keep it going.
So his father dies, right and You know, let's uh, let's see where I want to go from here. Um, let's go to let's skip So oh, I'll say this um he had a bunch of jobs. I'm sorry I'm looking at my notes and seeing where I want to go there not in chronological order I just I have notes over a couple pages. So, um one of the things is that he held several jobs throughout his life So he was a farmer a streetcar conductor a railroad fireman and insurance agent Um, he worked in law and you know what else he did?
Deliver babies Colonel Sanders delivered babies at one point and the quote I read was something to the extent of like Hey, somebody had to do it and the husbands weren't prepared to deliver a baby when his wife was pregnant Man, so that tells me that quote tells me and when I look at the things with colonel Sanders It tells me that this was a persistent dude. This was not somebody who just gave up easily This is not someone who saw a challenge in back now He saw a baby that needed to be born and he said yep, I step up if nobody else can do what I can In the meantime See we look at the chicken we we look and we look at the logos and like this is what we do with people's life I'm using colonel Sanders as somewhat of a metaphor by how we do we see somebody they got something nice They looking good. They they crispy clean and we just like oh if if only I had a life If only I had their opportunity Not realizing that you ain't ready for what happened with them in the meantime Here's a lesson Stop looking at other people's lives and picking and choosing what part of it you want for yourself That's what some of us do to make ourselves comfortable Man, if I just had that like them if I was just that like you don't know what happened in the meantime You don't know and you and here's the thing Sometimes they mean time was worse than yours. They mean time was meaner than your mean time And if you can't handle what you're going through remember That's why I talked about my grandparents and my parents there are certain aspects that I look at and I'm like whoa They had it rough.
Let me make sure I honor them by not wasting what I have Let me let me try to do something to make the family name great. Let me do my part in the legacy They did their part. They raised me. They taught me they nurtured me.
They introduced me to Christ Let me make sure I don't drop the baton. Let me do my part. Remember we are contributors not consumers See a consumer goes out and just lives in this world and consumes consumes consumes takes takes takes They don't give anything. They don't leave anything.
Where is your chicken? That's what I'm trying to ask y'all today. Where is your chicken? See kurtlesanders left some chicken and a restaurant and a secret recipe and some biscuits and when he died I worked there and I had them biscuits for free I have checks checks subs.
I don't know if I still got the stuff. Let me not say have at least had I had checks stubs with kfc name on it You're not getting this dude like I had checks in my life with kfc on it I have eaten buckets of chicken that say kurtlesanders on the bucket. Where is your chicken? Some of us are complaining so much about every obstacle that comes our way that we can't overcome it We can't overcome it.
We sing songs talk about we're conquerors Overcomers the word of our testament blooded and light we talk all this stuff and then the obstacle comes and we cower We're in a pandemic. It's challenging. There's ups and downs. There's people just disagreeing and arguing over every little thing There's uncertainty about the government.
There are people who are at risk of losing their jobs. There's the economy. There's inflation There's problem after problem after problem. But where is your chicken?
Remember kurtlesanders You're gonna see kfc and he was 40 years old. He was in the Great Depression He started cooking some chicken And i'm trying to tell y'all that you might be in a pandemic But you better cook some chicken when it's when times are the worst it is not time for you to give up It is time for you to cook some chicken Where is yo chicken? Let's keep it going kurtlesanders had every type of job And then here's where it gets interesting. Let's jump into the actual kind of some points around the story, right?
kurtlesanders at the age of 40 he had a gas station, right? So again, he did all types of jobs at the age of 40 he had a gas station And he started cooking his homemade food. Remember this is what he does as travelers was passing by He started like cooking and um, you know sharing like selling leftovers all type of stuff And I read it in the articles different type of ways. So don't like the leftovers was mentioned I don't know like the dynamics all of that so I read like I told y'all several articles and I'm cross referencing them But he had his gas station and he started cooking his chicken for the travelers that will come through the gas station, right?
And this was in Corbin, Kentucky Here's another important thing I like that he started cooking chicken at a gas station in Kentucky Now I'm putting myself in his position because at 40 years old it was 19 like 1931 or 30 or something like 1930 when he was 40 Years old he's in a great depression. So I don't know what led him right there smack in the middle of a great depression to get this gas station I don't know the backstory of the gas station at all I don't know if there was a need or why he had to start cooking the food if the travelers were requesting it or whatever it was But I know he was in a great depression and I know he had a gas station and I know he started cooking chicken Where is yo chicken What's the point here first of all he's 40 years old when this happens And there's some importance on where you are in your life, right? He was in Kentucky now imagine he could have bought a gas station anywhere I don't know the backstory of why he ended up in Corbin, Kentucky But it's like he could have been in Detroit. He could have been in Mississippi He could have been anywhere, but he was in Kentucky getting a gas station I imagine if he was frustrated when he bought that gas station imagine if he bought it because I man I don't know what else to do is the great depression everything is messed up My point is you have to understand the significance of the time you're living in You might be in Boston.
You might be in California You might be in Houston like wherever you at at the end of the day You might be in a situation that's gonna have like the the location matters Like you might Detroit fried chicken like I'm like it it takes us whatever that might exist What I'm saying is God can use where you at and it might not look like the best place right now It might not look like the absolute most amazing situation you cooking chicken in a gas station But just remember Kentucky Alright, colonel. I might not have brought you to this place and for no other reason to give you a reason in Kentucky to start cooking chicken Problems create opportunities. These are things we talked about on this show every I want you to just if you a first-time listener or even if you a Loyalty listener you go back and scroll through them titles man Before the pandemic specifically target before the pandemic because I want you to see what we were talking about before this stuff started happening And I want you to listen to those episodes and look at those titles and look at those guests and hear their stories and cook yo chicken Alright So He was serving guests, you know in the gas station He ain't had no restaurant yet ended up opening up I think a diner across the street at some point But one of the things and one of the articles that said I was interested in said Um, so 1930 he, you know starts cooking his chicken in the gas stations And it says over the next nine years he would perfect his secret recipe In the meantime Why you at the gas station? Why you stuck in court in Kentucky cooking the chicken?
Perfected It's a process y'all wherever you at whatever you're doing it may not be the most beautiful situation But what some of us do is we spend more time trying to explain to people why our situation ain't good Then actually appreciating the lessons of the situation that we in think about all the amazing things that happen so far He's in the Great Depression and it puts him in Kentucky for whatever reason I don't know the backstory, but he's there he starts cooking chicken for whatever reason, but he did it And he starts perfecting his recipe now tell me something Like are these not significant pieces to the puzzle of you going to Kentucky fried chicken with the what is it 11 original herbs and spices The whole storyline that you know Happened back in 1930 during a Great Depression. It was some beautiful stuff that happened Problems create opportunities Now here's another interest in fact. He wasn't a colonel. He did do some time in the um in the military He actually had an honorable discharge.
I think he lied about his age and served in Was it Cuba or Puerto Rico or something? Don't quote me on that but he did serve in the military, but it was not a colonel And what happened was in the late 19 no no when was it? What year was it? Was it 35?
I think it might have been 1935. Let me see if I wrote it in my notes real quick Yes in 1935 rubbinar ruby la fune or laughing la fune I think governor ruby la fune in 1935 Felt like this chicken was so good. She made him an honorary colonel Now this is another significant piece to me There will be people that come across your life Just like the young boy who used where jesus used his lunch to pay to feed the the the 5,000 with the two fish and the five Loves like he took the young boy's lunch and the young boy doesn't get much credit his name isn't even mentioned Ruby I don't I never heard a ruby when I was working at kfc I never seen ruby in a commercial but there is somebody out there and you have to also understand On both sides you may be seemingly playing an insignificant role in somebody's life But ruby gave him the title as colonel and that is what we know him as and that's what stuck to him stuck with him that one decision man I love leadership. This was a governor But this governor made a decision and we have to realize the impact that our decisions can make Like this governor made a decision that would change our life.
That was the governor cooking a chicken Like cook your chicken ruby name this man a colonel. That's insight like as believers we should have insight We should have the ability to be talking to people Not speaking in today life in a weird mystical way But allowing god to use us even the most practical ways to inspire and encourage people and I tell y'all like the point of this show Is to balance faith and business to guide you to your purpose I hope that listening to this podcast for y'all who listen to all these episodes and I thank y'all y'all give comments and emails and messages Like my belief and my hope is I don't need the credit in your story I don't have to be like whatever, but I'm telling you it is a blessing to know like y'all I cooked my chicken I saw a colonel and I named him colonel Um matter of fact Shout out to one of my listeners again. I try not to say people name because you know if you whatever, you know If you tell me something send me a message. I'm just I'm not doing the names So I'm shouting you out.
You know who you are. Um one of the listeners, um sister in christ wrote a blog In the blog she mentioned Um happy new day and she mentioned like yo, um, she like happy new day, you know podcast I listen to one of my brothers in christ say this my point is that's enough for me glory to god Like at the end of the day My goal is to say something that we will not be forgotten To say or present something at some point in this show that you will never forget And it might just be a young boy giving as much to jesus and doing jesus doing something miraculous and a miracle being the attention seeker Which it should be but if I had an opportunity to play a part Like what i'm saying is we should take pride and joy and honor In in the ability to play a part in people's lives and inspire them And to say something that will catapult them to give them a name to put a mark or a nim that will catapult them into the future In god's purpose for their life But here's the other thing as the colonel You got to recognize the rupees in your life Like recognize the people and be aware and understand and be grateful for the people in your life who play very small parts They don't have a major part in the movie that when when they like they got one scene They got one scene ruby had one scene, but that scene was one of the most impactful scenes of his life For the colonel so that was 1935 A couple more things that I want to say about colonel sanders, uh, let's keep it moving and That's our so at 40 years old that happened. He perfected the recipe over nine years. This was real interesting In the late 1930s.
He went to a demonstration for a new device called the pressure cooker First of all, I love the way it was written in an article, uh a new device called the pressure cooker Remember? Remember that you have to be aware of the times that you're living in colonel sanders was living in a time where they created this new Innovation called a pressure cooker. It was new to them old to us doesn't sound innovative doesn't sound like a big deal But during his time the pressure cooker was a big deal because it was new and he said and watched this demonstration I think they were making like green beans and he experimented because he asked itself I wonder can it do that to chicken? Where is yo chicken?
See what I love about colonel sanders is once my man got back to cooking he was seeing chicken and everything You had a green bean, uh, demonstration with a pressure cooker, but all you can think about is chicken Like that is where your purpose really really starts to explode in your life when it starts you start seeing it everywhere Oh, like oh my god. It's everywhere. I see oh oh my god. It's my guy like we have to see our purpose That's the importance of knowing and finding your purpose.
That is the importance of listening to the show And if you don't know your purpose, I want you to go back to an episode entitled how to be inspired I wish I remember the episode number up the top of my head But go and listen to how to be inspired. I think it's episode 118 Don't quote me on that but go back and listen to it and you need to refine your purpose Because some of us like we ain't cooking no chicken because we don't know what we don't know what chicken is We don't know what the purpose is to cook it. So colonel sanders is at a demonstration for the pressure cooker And he like I want I want to cook some chicken He cooks some chicken and he felt like this was the best cooking he ever tasted in his life and there right there in that moment KFC the Kentucky fried chicken that you know was born Because kfc was pressure cooking their chicken because that's where it all happened at Could have been an insignificant moment at the time could have just been like, oh, I don't feel like one of this demonstration I go to so much dub. I don't want to go to this.
I don't feel like it get up and go Try to be lay about a lord and not overlook opportunities that you can't see the opportunity beyond the opportunity See some of us are so greedy some of us are short so short sighted that if you can't give us an immediate benefit We're not willing to go through a process with you We're not willing to give something time to develop because we want to see it right away But he had to experiment with the pressure cooker to get the chicken that he needed The chicken that would get me a job when I was 15 years old Where's your chicken? Alright, so Here's another aspect of this really the last thing that I want to focus on It was What year was it that he started? Oh, so in 1952 is where he starts actually um franchising this this restaurant So again in the meantime, right this this really started 1930 when he's cooking chicken in a restaurant It wasn't until 1952 that he starts franchising his chicken restaurant He gave it time you have to give things time like don't live life and fast forward Just live life in the right direction I think we have to really understand direction versus speed. I am a person that preaches direction Speed doesn't matter to me.
I want to be going in the right direction If i'm going in the right direction and I stay in that direction over time I will get where i'm supposed to go if i'm in A wrong direction and i'm going too fast. I'm just further away from where i'm supposed to be Some of us are living life in the wrong direction, but at a high speed and that is the worst combination you can absolutely have Wrong direction meaning not where god intends for you to go very high speed meaning you're going there very fast That's not a good combination. I would rather be in the right direction at a slow speed than at a wrong direction at a fast speed part of speed Time age what this was though in 1952 when he started striking these franchising deals He struck deals that pay him a nickel for every piece of chicken not every piece of chicken I was so so i'm assuming every whole chicken he was making five cents chicken with yo chicken chicken chicken Chaching where's your chicken This chicken is changing this man life But remember it all started when his father died and he had to step up into a leadership position in the household and start cooking And here's what happens At the age of 65 years old Right this this is his age in the 50s. He's 65 years old Using his social security check and that's how he was funding some of these franchises through the 50s 65 years old i'm willing to bet I know that average listener to this show i'm not gonna get into ages But i'm willing to bet that here's the point i'm trying to make let's say you're 65 and you're listening to the show And you're thinking oh man so much time has passed so much has went wrong.
I made so much many mistakes I can't even get myself up to even start thinking to do the right thing Colonel Sanders didn't start kfc so he was in his 60s He didn't start kfc to lead with in the 60s, but he started kfc with everything he learned beforehand If you in your 60s if you in your 70s right now you feeling like time is when this people now probably in the 30s and 40s They feel like too much time to win wherever you act and you feel like you're made too many mistakes and you feel like too much time has passed You might be starting now but guy can use everything that you've been through to be a part of your story and some of us I get it. You haven't had the easiest role You feel like you watched so many people do well, but my mess started in the 50s. He didn't die to 1980 He started at 65. He spent 25 years because he was 90 when he died He still had 25 years of chicken to go My point is stop giving up before it's over And that's what i liked about what i've learned reading this story about uh, colonel Sanders is that he wasn't a person that gave up So for him his 60s might have just been getting started It really says like you know, um But those latter years of his life, um, he was traveling over 250 miles a thousand miles a year So he was doing a lot of traveling going around the country.
He obviously became an ambassador for kfc He actually sold it um in 1964 had 600 restaurants sold it to a group of investors for two million dollars He ended up suing them that when he sued them Because once he sold it the food wasn't good to him like he ain't like the size He ain't like the gravy and stuff so he sued them for another million dollars And then later on became an ambassador for the for the company and I wasn't able to find how much money he was making as an ambassador This was not about money. This was about chicken I hope you're able to grab some things and take some things away from this story I hope you go and find your chicken. Where is your chicken? Because at the end of the day, there's something that you're supposed to be cooking There's something that you're supposed to be developing a nurse and remember he started cooking the chicken at seven years old He didn't open the restaurant until he was over 60 Some of us are you willing to spend 50 years cooking chicken before it's time to sell it See the problem i feel like we have these days is people want to rush into business They want to jump in everything look y'all follow me on this show We are on year four of this podcast october start october 10th started year four So we are living in year four that feels like a long time I get it.
It's like man. You and your four and your website still ain't updated You and year four and you still like just now you got a hundred subscribers on youtube and you would celebrate in 20 views and year four Yeah, I'm in year four baby. I'm in the meantime Everything ain't perfect. Everything ain't figured out.
We don't sell t-shirts and hats yet I know some of y'all to act like we're the hats where the t-shirt look I get it Right now because we have access to so many things we want to live life and fast forward But I'm not living life and fast forward. I'm in the meantime. There's ups. There's downs.
There's great days There's challenges, but I'm not rushing this thing. I'm cooking my chicken Oh y'all feeling this? I'm cooking my chicken right now Inspire guys people. I'm perfected inspire guys people really represents for me so much of what I'm going in life I told y'all I used to do music.
I had a fashion brand. I work in corporate america I've had so many experiences and I'm learning how to layer each of these experiences into what I do now Cook yo chicken I really want you to fry yo chicken. I really want you to perfect your recipe I really want you to persevere and not give up just because it hasn't been perfect just because you like I'm 65 And i'm just starting my first restaurant Well, yeah, you're gonna have 600 restaurants over the next 10 years if you just give yourself time to do it And not only that this this chicken that you cooking people gonna be eating it will be passed and beyond your life You're gonna be dead and they're gonna be eating this chicken. Listen y'all that's how I produce this show This stuff is out in the public.
I've recorded and released over 75 songs. I don't record and release 75 songs for the moment I don't make club music. I don't make really any popular trend of music not even for in the church world Because if I was doing that I'd be doing like CCM or worship music or you know something like that and when that's all cool I'm not taking a shot what i'm saying is that I'm not creating just for the moment I'm cooking chicken that's going like people I told y'all this before I'm showing we talked about vango Like I create content to be discovered forever Like I look colonel Sanders is gone and you know exactly who he is You probably wouldn't hear that long while he was alive if you were here But you know who he is you didn't ate that chicken Listen, it's people that the reason you need to cook yo chicken It's somebody that need to have a good dinner with their kids while they watch a movie You know many times we didn't smile as we ate some finger looking good chicken You know how many times I've been happy and been in a good moment in life to have a kfc biscuit with some honey on it You know how many good moments that have that? Listen I went to a wedding reception when I was a kid And they had kfc at the wedding reception because one of my my friends was a manager at kfc cook yo chicken Oh, this bless somebody hope it touched your heart And that you're able to grab onto the words I would say today.
I hope you cook your chicken I hope you find your chicken. I hope you perfect your recipe I hope you appreciate your experiences and even ones that are challenging try to make the most of them because life is not perfect And we have ups and downs. Listen, I definitely have not lived a perfect life The best that I could do right now that I've tried to do is learn from my experiences both good and bad Learn from the people who have made cameos in my life Some short some for longer periods of time, but I try to appreciate them Maybe it was a ruby that came to my life and gave me the name colonel and gave me some purpose And never said that the colonel and ruby were friends but ruby played a significant role in naming him a colonel So I hope you can appreciate and look at your life in that way And understand the moment in time and history and where you live Let's be contributors to society be contributed to this world cook yo chicken Perfect your recipe and bless the world Spy guys people hope y'all enjoyed this one Let me know how y'all feel email me germane wilson music at gmail.com Look at the description of the show share this one with somebody I just want you to share this with somebody all you got to say share the link to the show And all you got to do is tell them cook yo chicken cook yo chicken Give your lunch to jesus and let him do his work Give your lunch to jesus and let him feed his church Give it all to jesus and let him leave the way But he can't leave the way if we get in the way I can't ever see so i'm trusting you with my legacy jesus