Yo guys people what up man? This is Jay Will inspire guys people where we balance faith and business to guide you to your purpose Hopefully y'all can hear me. Okay. I'm sure some land or some in the background I really hope this audio works out good.
I'm downtown Indianapolis today actually taking a quick break from work meetings And I'm a I came across the street. It's a big bus station wherever some of this huge bus out We got something like this in Detroit as well But I'm with some folks from New Jersey and other places they like was this big you know bus station or whatever We got this but anyway downtown um just cross me from our hotel nice area right over by the Indiana Pacers arena whatever that's called But I'm doing this this way because I've been so busy lately has been tough to keep The audio content coming as much as like the videos. So one of the kick it with y'all This is me really just kicking it a couple things that's on my mind I also You know when I'm traveling I'm thinking the most because I'm by myself and then I'm in these like really unique situations as it relates to You know business and I'm typically in cool environments one way or another And you know my mind like I'm grateful number one where I always think about where I came from bro Like always like man. It's a blessing Lord like I don't take none of this for granted You know like because it wasn't automatic.
It wasn't guaranteed. It was faith. It was trust following God's plan You know making mistakes, but always wanting to try to get better being consistent being persistent And so I don't take it for granted because I know I could have went the other way You know I'm saying I've seen people go the other way I know what that look like so when I think about shoe I remember I don't know if I ever said it's on the podcast either I Remember when I was thinking about getting a gun when I was 16 17 You know and I was I was in the middle of making that decision now and all fairness I ain't know where I was gonna get it from or nothing like that So I hadn't gotten that far in the planning But you know when you growing up in certain environments It's really like survival of the fittest and I'm like man like you know the city was getting was so aggressive You know the older you get I guess you notice it more you know where people your age and kids You know so the fight is harmless or you know the bullying it ain't just talk now You know it's people just want to get busy, you know So I remember thinking about it and what the believe it or not the thing that stopped me from moving forward one of the things right Was I couldn't think of where I would put it? You know and my parents because of how I was raised and the respect I have for our house It was just like yo like and I had younger brothers and sisters and I'm like man I don't got nowhere where this could really be Where I can know that ain't it ain't gone.
Nobody else gonna get to it or ain't gonna create no You know whatever so I was I mean I can't even comfortably do that and so hey parents out there one thing I will say with that is make make your household where your kids are uncomfortable with certain things Some people these days, you know y'all kids got these phones y'all let them go in a room close they door You'll never pop in where they can't hear you coming. You'll never surprise them So these kids have the comfort to get in trouble And so I come in my parents where like I come from a household where it wasn't conducive to that type of stuff It was nowhere in the house. I could put it and get away with it And so I was it deterred me right but I said all that to say I remember that stuff like it was yesterday And so I don't take for granted, you know when I'm you know last night We get this nice hotel a little bougie hotel on a rooftop and I'm eating Oreo cheese cake and honey on an ice cream That's they make it at the hotel, you know, and it's all you know my corporate You know amics and all you know, so I just don't take it for granted And so that stuff really puts me I get in deep thought and things crossed my mind and One of the other things again I just wanted to kick it with y'all in the midst of that man like I'm just sitting here at a bus stop in front of all type of people And it just feel like I don't know when I think of One thing about me from my music, buddy trying to catch the bus. Oh snap y'all might hear anything I'm out here.
Yeah, that's man That's his way of screaming for the bus if you heard him in the background sounding like a penguin But um, you know for me like art is best when it's in life Like that's how I try to create music everything It's like I create a lot of my music and come up with ideas when I'm around people my family when I'm living there's something about life and just Seeing all these you know Few hundred people at a bus stop doing some people look interesting others clean cut some look like You know, honestly like they live here. You know I'm saying I don't say that disrespectfully This some look like a business people so I like these type of settings where I'm just in life look like my man over here selling DVDs I don't know who gonna play a DVD right now But something else I was thinking about was one of the toughest places you could be in life is almost where you're going and Like the reason this was coming to my mind just to be real like man I you know just being keeping it keeping it a hundred like I've been I've been stressed You know the last couple months I've had some stresses being as busy as I am Wanting to do some stuff with the podcast wanting to grow the podcast wanting to continue to grow my career Just not having time or having to travel or having a meeting and um, you know Having responsibilities family that want things and need things from me I gotta go to this my nephew having a birthday party my niece and just being real I don't really go to kid birthday parties number one. I'll have kids so to me is like I don't know what I'm gonna do at a kid birthday party, but then I have like 16 pieces and nephews Alone it's literally somebody's birthday every couple weeks in my family So again, but those are the things like where's like I've been stressed because then when I get free time It's important for me to try to do what I need to do in that time, right? And I'm sharing this for a reason I'm sharing this to To hopefully help you if you hear and so I was thinking man one of the hardest places to be is almost where you going?
because the thing about almost is Almost is where you've came so far from where you were that you've put in work that you tired you've been consistent You prayed you have faith, but you still ain't where you really want to be And so when you still ain't where you really want to be it's tempting to give up because you're thinking yo bro, I put in all this work like in the work didn't work but then sometimes you have to step back because if If all you look that is the finish line of where you want to be and that's the only thing that count But you're not counting the wins you've had along the way again Oreo cheese cake on the rooftop and whatever I have for brunch today at this little front I have a key lime croissant French toast You know, I ain't paying for it You know, that's the other thing about business and I talk about business because I want to encourage people to be in business you know, this show is about faith in business and Like I want people to understand especially people from where I'm from it ain't just basketball or rap You know what I'm saying? It ain't just it ain't even just being an entrepreneur or some driving a Lamborghini and being a millionaire It's a lot of it's a lot of wins that come along the way and there's a lot of there's a whole bunch of ways You could be successful And I don't think we talk enough about you know business and sales and marketing and like what those things lead to So I'll be trying to give a little insight with that I still keep in my privacy and you know, like, you know sharing it in a way that ain't like One thing I think starting on people is weak and it doesn't when people are stuck in or just showing you stuff to show off It doesn't come with any context. It doesn't come with strategy So hopefully people have gotten enough context and strategy if you really listen to this show You know I'm saying to know like what the purpose and stuff is But ultimately, you know, I've had that almost feeling at times lately Where it's like, yeah, like I'm man, I guess I'm like really successful when I look at it from one way Especially when I look at where I came from but because I'm such a big thinker like I don't even always appreciate it And that's why I be like let me not say that because I appreciate it But I don't always give myself credit. I just say it that way just be real I'm just being real, you know, we live in life.
It's easy to do this stuff like I'm outside of the studio I'm outside I'm just living so this like y'all just what y'all just walking and kicking it with me and we was just friends like on surreal stuff This is how I be talking But I don't always get myself credit. That's one of them. That's one of the things I have to do better is Give myself credit like, you know, I really I really came from a long way and I really be doing business Like I really, you know, be doing it by the grace of God I'm not giving myself credit in a way to say it's because of me and not give God glory But I'm saying just you know that's listen I put a lot of pressure on myself and so when you put a lot of pressure on yourself Sometimes that because you ain't giving yourself the credit I'm appreciating the process But I'm not necessarily given the work that I've done the credit for it that it deserves And so sometimes I find myself in the last couple months in that almost feeling like I must accept me no success Well, I guess but success is subjective. It's different levels, right?
So that's why I be like down playing myself sometimes myself and um That could put me in that almost feeling and that's not a great place to be because like I said to be almost What we really be looking at is where but we ain't there yet, you know what I'm saying? And so instead of letting myself getting that almost phase I'm learning how to look at what what I have done and where I come from and I'm just in trying to encourage you today Like man and inspire you like if you were a person that's almost somewhere Don't focus on where you not almost at focus on what where you came from now You want to look ahead as far as where you going right? You don't want to look behind but sometimes Looking back just to see like alright. Yeah, we started from way over there Like I've given idea you ever walk somewhere and we walk like a mile and a half to a from a restaurant last night And um you ever like walk and you look back like dang we came from that far or like Sometimes you're not looking back to like romanticize or like focus on what's back there You just looking back to acknowledge like y'all we just walked a mile like you walk from that building way back there Me and Tiff we have traveled to Vegas in different places We do a lot of walking Chicago and um, New York, Toronto We do a lot of walking and this time we are we'll look ahead and something look real far and you look back to sea like Oh, man, we are whole to a way back there like we was walking so You know, I'm just trying to encourage and inspire you like not really not to give up and You know saying get yourself credit for like where you came from and what God has brought you from You know, I'm saying like what he's done in your life and not get so caught up and in the trophy or the prize Um as it relates to material things, especially a lot of times you get to places and they're not exactly what you thought anyway Because a lot of times you don't think of the responsibility part, you know, it's like Personally can think of you know, like we saw the house when we were living in the house was you know big And I'm up for us.
It's like that bigger house man. Oh, that's a lot of work Like you got to keep that clean you fixing stuff, you know, people who got a big yard You got to cut that you got to cut that grant like so a lot of times we don't see the responsibility in the blessing, right? So um the more I live and experience I don't just look at things for what I can get in a material where like oh, I want a Lamborghini or something It's like man, but you want to pay $5,000 for a change You know I'm saying do you want a car that you really ain't gonna be able to drive nowhere for real? It's a lot of things pros and cons not to say it's not wrong with a Lambo or that you shouldn't want one or that you shouldn't look ahead or Have big goals but just to say that the bigger goal ain't the only goal You know I'm saying so hopefully this catch y'all in a good spot man I got to get back in here for this meeting now.
I just wanted to drop something But look we've been the YouTube following spire guys people on YouTube I feel like the YouTube has been real dope. It's been growing have my first video to hit a thousand views like Couple days ago hit a thousand views on the first day 1200 So anyway, we growing we growing the podcast man And I might have to grow some of this stuff authentically on the road I got a lot of trouble this year. So I'm just making it work for my life and you know I'm not trying to create with nobody else has already created So hopefully when you listen inspire guys people it's something unique and authentic that you receive in and hopefully It's really inspiring you and helping change your life and you know if you take anything from this I just want you to keep going you know don't don't allow yourself to fall in a funk a depression Take care of yourself, you know I'm listening to this book around emotional intelligence and it was interesting one of the chapters today was talking about Depression and how people react and respond to it or how they allowed themselves to get in it and one of the one of the things that they Outline was like, you know The activity that you partake in is very important in the way you partake in it If you already depressed like some people the more they think about it and that make them more depressed It don't make them less depressed worry worry is the word they use Worry makes you more depressed you feel me? So it's like you don't need to be sitting here worrying if you already ain't in a good space because worrying is just gonna put you Deeper in a hole and you need to find ways and activities to bring you out And that's part of what this podcast is it's a tool to put you in a better space And to bring you out So if you are already down and out when you listen to inspire guys people this should be something that God is using to touch you in In a way to make you better.
That's that's the content. I want to create man Like that's that's that's my goal. That's my vision. So hopefully that's what you're getting from me and uh, hopefully you'll enjoy What we trying to build here?
I always say we and my multiple people or something But I'm trying to build here and I love y'all and appreciate y'all man And I count it as a blessing to be able to talk to y'all in this way and for all the people who have ever listened watched My music my podcast or anything I've ever created, you know, the win for me is if it changed your life So love y'all man. I got to get back in this hotel to this meeting these people here don't even know I got a podcast Funny so y'all I'm a podcast to do I'm a fitness man. Love y'all man be easy