The Elevated Mindset Podcast Introduction

[00:00:18] Speaker A: What's happening, good people? Welcome to the Elevated Mindset podcast. This is a platform for growth, for mastering your mindset, for transforming your life to become the God version of yourself. I didn't say the best version because that might be a step below where God wants you to be. I'm your host, Carlton Young. They call me Cy. [00:00:40] Speaker B: What's up? I'm your co host, Kevon Lee. Man, we're so excited to be here. We've been talking about this for a while. You got the young perspective over here. You got the older perspective right there. And, man, this is. Hey, look, I didn't mean it like that. I didn't know what else to say. Season. Season. [00:00:57] Speaker A: I got you, man. There we go. [00:00:58] Speaker B: Yeah. So fro, though, everybody, if you know anybody who needs help with personal development mindset, if they need to hear about some jesus, this is the podcast for them. We're going to be on all platforms. We're going to be everywhere. So please subscribe, please listen to us, please recommend us, and you're going to love every content that we bring to you guys. [00:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So in the next few minutes, what we're going to do is we're going to jump into the essence of the elevated Mindset podcast, where we're going to create a space for growth, for maturation, for elevation, and for you just to become who God designed you to be. Right? We're going to share our experiences in life from an old perspective, as my man just said, and then he'll share his perspective from a young perspective or a slightly less experienced perspective. But we're going to cover the spectrum about what it means to become the best version of yourself, for you to get to your purpose, so you can get everything that God has designed for you to have. Come on, because you are supposed to be the head and not the tail, and you are fearfully and wonderfully made. So we just want to come in and make a meaningful impact using the gifts that God has given us. And we want to help you find those gifts, align with your purpose, so you can use the gift that God has given you to impact the world, take care of your family, leave a legacy. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's so important for, especially us as men, young black men, to actually, I feel that we're here on this world to conquer it, right? And there's so many of us that don't understand that. So as I said earlier, if you know anybody who needs help with personal development, whatever it is in their life, right, they're going through a tough time maybe they're going through good times in their life. Make sure they come here and listen to this podcast. Because I promise you guys, everything that we say in this podcast, it will be vital for yourself, it will be vital for your friends, because people need somebody to listen to, right? Everybody needs that. No matter how old you are, younger, older, seasoned, whatever it is, everybody needs to hear that perspective of somebody else because you never know somebody that you know that is going through something. We may have been through it or we may be going through it ourself right now. And what I love so far about our podcast, and I already know that we're going to go through this, is we're being 100% honest. We're not going to tell you anything that we haven't been through. We're not going to tell you anything that we don't believe in. We're going to give you the raw truth. And that's what's important, right? Because you guys want to hear that. You guys don't want somebody up here who just telling you what you want to hear. You want to hear that absolute truth. No matter what's going on in the world, no matter what people think about us, we're going to tell you guys the truth because that's who we are, right? And we stand on business. You hear how I said that we stand on business? That's like a new thing that the kids are saying, standing on business. Something like that. [00:03:56] Speaker A: Okay, well, we standing on business, man. And we have such a broad spectrum of life, but we have some commonalities. That's how we actually linked up and met. It's crazy how we met. [00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:09] Speaker A: Everything is always aligned for your purpose, your story, where God wants to take you. All you have to do is first of all, start doing the work on yourself. Become the best version of yourself. Right? You have to be in order to become. You don't become. And then you get what God has designed for you. You have to become it first before you get it. So we both have been working on, been on this journey of self discovery, self growth. We both have traumas, demons, past stories that we're going to delve off into, jump off into and give you our life history and unpack it for you to let you know that, hey, that situation that you're in, you're not the only one who's been in that situation a lot of times. The enemy, which is the devil, Satan, however you want to call it, or even yourself, you will think that you have to go through something all alone. But we understand that our gifts are tied to somebody else's breakthrough. So we're going to open our mouths to give you the opportunity to learn our story so you can connect with us and see, I'm a gunshot wounds. I'm a gunshot victim survivor. He's a gunshot survivor. We have these crazy backstories, but the pain is the purpose, right? And so what I want to help you do is not go to the cemetery, right. The cemetery is the richest place in the world. And the reason I say that it's the richest place in the world because there are unfulfilled dreams, unfulfilled destinies, unfulfilled businesses, unfulfilled ideas that never made it off the ground because people weren't able to deal with that inner demon, that inner trauma, and get those gifts out of them that God has put in them. And that's the thing about it. Like, if you have these gifts in you, you have to cultivate them. You have to do something with that talent in order to get what God has designed for you. You have to do the work. And so that's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about doing the work. What do you think, Kevin? [00:06:21] Speaker B: No, straight up, man. You have to do the work. And how you say, and I say this all the time to people, right? It's a difference between doing something and becoming something, right? Because once you become it, you embody it and you do it for the rest of your life. And as we know, man, there's a lot of young people out here who don't know their purpose, who don't know where they're going, who don't even know where to start, right? And so we're going to talk about all that on this podcast. If I just look at people my age, I don't know about people your age. I'm pretty sure you know more people your age. Just like in my age, I know more people who younger, right. People around my age, man, they're not. How do I say this? They don't have a sense of urgency for success. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's this new technology era. I don't know if it's because we want everything so fast and we can't delay that gratification. I don't know what it is. But a lot of people don't have that sense of urgency to be successful, right? So before I even came into this field of speaking and all that, I knew and it was crazy because people were telling know, Kevon. And I'm going to talk about this later. But, Kevon, you shouldn't be a speaker. There's no way you're gonna be able to quit your job. What about health insurance? And at the time, it was a little discouraging, right? Because the people closest to you, you would think that, Kevon, you know what? Go live your dream. Go try to accomplish that. Go for that mountain. I don't care how high it is. Don't stop. Right? But I was hearing the opposite of that. Stay here. This is where stability is. This is where you guarantee to have this income. It might not be a lot of income, but you're guaranteed to be there, right. You might not be fulfilled there, but maybe you should stay there. And you hear that a lot today, right? But hearing that, I would just said, okay, you know what? I'm not comfortable here. What was going to be uncomfortable is leaving this job and going after my dreams. And I did that, right? And it's crazy because they say, what about insurance? Insurance? If I'm making a lot of money, then insurance is nothing to worry about. We could pay for insurance. But what about your bills? What about the stability? Like I said, if I'm doing what I have to do with my God given purpose, then that stuff does not matter. Because at the end of the day, God is going to make sure that I'm living a prosperous life. Right? He said he has a plan for all of us. Now it's up to you to live your plan because he's going to put the blueprint in front of you. And sometimes you might go through something, you're like, man, God, this ain't it. And God's telling you like, son, you got to get through that to get to the thing. I'm testing you. And so I believe that everything that happened to me, it was just a test. Like heavily. You can go down this path. You go down that path. But again, I'm going to talk more about my story later, but I definitely want Carlton because he has a powerful story. So I just want to hear yours first. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Oh, man, I give my testimony, man. As they say in the church, the doors of the church are open. So, man, I'm just a young guy from Birmingham, Alabama. Grew up typically like anybody else, west End Alabama, Birmingham. My mother got pregnant when she was 19 by a guy that supposed to been getting married. But come to find out he had two women pregnant at the same time. And so I guess when my mom found out she was pregnant, and called the house. His mom answered the phone and said, I'm not even going to speak his name because I don't have no ill will against him, but I'm not going to put him out there like that, even though he is deceased at this time. But basically she said, well, so and so is married now, so you probably don't want to call here anymore. So my, you know, had to figure out life, right? So basically, I grew up with my grandmother, grandfather, first three, four years of my life. My mom eventually met the man I call my dad. They got married. He was in the military, went to Florida, went to Germany, went to Montana. In the midst of moving different places in the military, I was just a real bad kid, right? That had a lot of issues that I didn't realize I had those issues. But my mom said I would ask questions that led her to believe that I kind of knew. Kind of my backstory, even though I was young and didn't really understand, but kids be knowing stuff, right? And so, in Montana, went through two attempts on my life, right by the enemy. Fell out of a rolling car, turning the corner just by the grace of God that nobody was behind me, and ran me over. This was like, 1314 years old. Then about six to eight months later, we ended up. We're going to a choir competition at the church that we were attending, and that was called union Bethel, but we're going to a competition in Missoula, Montana, going through Rogers Pass, which is like one of the highest points in Montana, from my understanding. There was no guardrail. It started snowing and icing. And the van that we were riding in, it was like a cargo van that they had rented. It slowly was about to slide off the cliff. And the only reason that van stopped is because all of the people inside of the van were screaming, Jesus. And praying. We literally stopped, like, less than a foot from the edge. There was no guardrail. And if that van would have slipped off that overpass, they would have never discovered us. We would have been down there forever, right? Because it was just what it was. You're young, you don't understand those things. You go on with your life, right? You're 1415 years old. Getting the military, end up getting in a near fader car wreck, coming from somewhere with a couple of my friends. The car was mangled up like it literally ran into the back of a semi. And it's a wonder that the guy driving the car wasn't. His head wasn't decapitated. I happened to be laying down in the backseat. So I didn't realize what was going on until they woke me up. Because it was like a late night trip and I was sleep. But when I woke up, they were flashing the lights in my face. So now that's third. That's third time. Fourth time military. Fourth and final time was getting shot point blank range, seeing the trigger squeeze. And remember getting into the ambulance. Remember what I had on. Had on some jabot jeans that probably dates my age. Dallas stars hockey jersey and some air force ones. Remember getting in the ambulance. Them cutting off my hockey jersey. That's the last thing I remember. Next thing I remember, I woke up in the hospital. A couple of days later. My dad was sitting in the hospital. He happened to actually be praying when I opened my eyes. And I was doped up with morphine, so I could shoot my own morphine whenever I needed to. And basically that would just knock you out and put you back to sleep. I had all kind of tubes in me for, like, to drain blood. You could see the blood draining from the tube. Had the thing in the urine where because you couldn't get up and go nowhere. So I had three or four tubes in me. All kind of medical equipment attached to me. So that's like my backstory. And then as we'll delve into. Deeper into that. But at the beginning, what that meant for me, when I finally understood where I was supposed to be, because that happened when I was 24, is sometimes you got something so great on the inside of you, the enemy wants to kill it before it's born. See, the enemy cannot stop what God has put in you, but he can stop you releasing it to the earth. So his job is to stop you. And look, I felt something when I said that his job is to stop you from releasing that to the earth. Because that's what God has put you here for. So he's going to do everything within his power to stop you from getting that gift out. Because that gift is going to change lives. So fast forward to know when we met going to the next level speakers conference, shout out to Et Jeremy inky and the whole next level community. And that's how me and this man met. We just met on the flight heading there. And we just happened to be in line one in front of the other. And we just started chatting. Hit it off. Talked the whole trip to Atlanta the whole time. Hung out in Atlanta the whole time. And we just been riding ever since. Right, man. So it's just a beautiful thing when God has set you up and taken you through the necessary steps for you to be able to get to where God desires you to be. Right. But again, I started doing the work as well in between that time frame because I knew, because I had a season where I was like Jonah, too. We all know about Jonah. God told him to do something. He was running. I did that, too. So I've been in the belly of the fish, so I can talk to you from a whole bunch of, you know, that's kind of my backstory. That's kind of my know, I'm still here. Like Langston Hughes says, I've been scarred and battered my hopes, the wind is shattered, but I'm still here, and I'm here for a reason. So, man, that's kind of my backstory, man. And so I think it's going to blow to their mind when they hear your backstory, and then they're going to see the synergy and the commonality between Kevon and Carlton. Right. And how we are like brothers. And that's the beautiful thing about this, right, when you understand that everybody, like, here's the thing that I want everybody to understand. If they don't take anything away from this conversation, you are not meant for everybody, but your tribe will find you. You don't have to compete with nobody. You don't have to do or try to be like anybody. Let God you be who God designed you to be, and he'll put you in the spaces that you need to be as long as you do the work. Me and Kevin have similar stories, but we got two different gifts, we got two different talents, and we ride for each other, and we want to see each other win. But enough of me talking, man. Let's hear your story and hear what you got to say, man. [00:16:29] Speaker B: First of all, you gave me some chills when you said that one quote, the devil, he can't stop what God has destined for you, but he could stop whatever you said. It was great. It was great. [00:16:41] Speaker A: The devil can't stop the gift that God placed in you. [00:16:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:45] Speaker A: He can't stop God from placing that gift in you. He can stop you from releasing it on the world. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Oh, man, that's powerful, man. That's powerful. And as you just said in your story, he tried to stop you many times, right? But yet you kept persevering, and now you hear where you are right now, and God has used you. So that's amazing, man. So a little bit about my backstory is, mother, father, they used to be on drugs. They're clean now. So praise God. For that. They've been clean for 1516 years, so a long time, which is absolutely amazing. But when they were younger, they was running the streets of San Bernardino. Dad in gangs. Dad owned drugs, alcohol. Mom owned drugs, alcohol. Same thing, right? And they hooked up. Mind you, they wasn't married. They just hooked up one day and come to find out, my mother, she didn't know she was pregnant, but six months after conception, this woman came to her and said, I don't know who you are, but you're pregnant, and your baby's name going to be known all over the world. That's exactly what this woman, mind you, I don't know if she was a crack addict, too. I don't know if she was on the streets. I don't know what about it? But that's what this woman told my mother, right? And my mother said, there's no way I'm pregnant. But sure up. My mom went to the doctor. Doctor said, yes, you're six months pregnant, but your baby would be born with down syndrome. And so when my mother heard that, she was encouraged to stop the drugs, and she stopped the drugs for the final three months of her pregnancy. And I was born a healthy baby, right? So praise God for that. Praise God for that, right? And she started to get back on the drugs. She started to get back in the streets and things like that. And, man, so this is where my life really, this is the biggest impact in my life, because I felt like in order for this, that to happen, I couldn't be here without that happening. I couldn't be in the season of my life without that happening. So at the age of five years old, my mother and father, they're arguing. Wasn't nothing new, wasn't a healthy relationship. My mom told my dad to get out, so my dad got out, right? And so later that night, I hear a knocking on the door. And I wake up, and I run to the door, and my mother and father's friend, they come in. So he came in, and my mom said, come on, go to your room and go to sleep. I said, okay. So I went to my room and I went to sleep. So now, a few hours later, it's about one or 02:00 a.m. And I hear this loud banging on the door, right? And after this banging, I hear cursing, I hear screaming that I hear my mother start crying. And so I run out. I'm five years old. I want you guys to put this in perspective. I'm five years old, and I come out and my mom said, kev, I already told you, go to the room and go to sleep. And we lived in a little small. It couldn't be more than maybe 500 square foot little duplex. It was super small, right? And instead of going to my room, going to sleep, they laid a couch about 10ft away from the door. And I decided to lay on that couch because I didn't want to leave my mom alone because I already told you, my dad, he had already left. And so as I'm there, I hear my mother say, I don't have your money. And she slams the door. So she slams the door and she turns around, she start walking towards me, and she said, kevin, I already told you, go to your room. And the guy opens the door. And this is when my mother turns around and he shoots my mama twice. [00:19:52] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:19:53] Speaker B: He walks in, he shoots the other guy twice. And so this gun has six bullets, right? And so you can only imagine. I don't know what kind of person will shoot a five year old kid. I don't know. I don't know anybody. I don't know who has that ruthless amount of hate in them, that heart in them, for them to actually do that. But sure enough, he walked up to me, shot me point blank. And I remember I blacked out. And when I woke up, my mother was on top of my wounds, pressing them, calling the ambulance. And like in San Bernardino, man, they don't rush at all, especially back then in 2003 when this happened. But anyway, they finally came. And when they came, just like you, they cut open my shirt. I was wearing a gray shirt. They cut open my shirt. My shirt was, like, bloodshot red. They pressing on my wounds, too. They put me on a stretcher. They put me in the ambulance. They put in oxygen to me because I got shot in my ribs and I got shot in my hand. So it was really hard for me to breathe. By the time I got to the doctor. I get out. Out. And I get to the hospital. And next thing I know, just like you, I wake up a few days later. I wake up a few days later, tubes all attached to me. I had to breathe into this thing for my lung capacity. And you, five years old, man, you really don't know the gravity of what just happened. You don't know what the heck is going on. You just know you're in a lot of pain. And about four weeks after that, I had a full recovery. But this woman came to me and said, kevon, you're going to get a new mom. And so that's when I entered the foster care system, and I'm not going to tell my whole story today, but that was the main catalyst to changing the whole trajectory of my life because I truly believe, and it's going to be weird I say this, but it was kind of a success because I truly believe that if I did not get shot, I wouldn't be the person who I am today. I don't know if I would be a motivational speaker, empowerment speaker. I don't know if I'll be a man of God. I don't know if I'll have a wife. I don't know if I'll have any of that. Because the trajectory that was going on, I was living in the hood, and I lived in the hood my whole life, but I didn't have that authority figure to tell me what to do, how to align, how to go, how to maneuver through this world. And so I was going to be doing, I promise you guys, I can remember before the agent, before I got shot, me doing some crazy things, me stealing, so being a thief, me doing. I'm not going to even share it today. We might get later on this podcast. [00:22:22] Speaker A: There's so much to unpack, man. [00:22:27] Speaker B: So that's happened when I was five, went to foster care, went to homelessness, and I battled through that, and I battled through doing a third grade twice. I battled through depression. I was overweight. I was 140 pounds overweight, so I weighed 300 pounds, five foot five. I'm taller now. Lost all that weight, wanted to commit suicide because of that. And then I just went on a different trajectory. And it's crazy because although I did not know what I wanted to do in life, I remember hearing somebody and saying, I remember hearing a motivational speaker. And then after that, on YouTube, it went to another one. I was like, time out, man. I could do, like, the story that I have. People always tell me, Kevon, you're very charismatic. You have a story. You've been through a lot, but nobody ever told me that motivational speaking was an actual career. Like, you can make money from this. You could live your best life. But although you're making money, you're making so much impact. And I know you could testify to that. You're making so much impact. Nobody ever told me that. But then once I dove into it, I just went head on into it. And now we're here, right? Like I said, we met at that conference. Well, before we even got to the conference, we met there. We hit it off. We've been talking ever since. I mean, I'll get random texts from you. Hey, watch this, man. How are you doing? And just having that community of somebody who has the same mindset of you and not only that, but been through the same things that you've been through, it gives you a sense of community that, you know what? I could go to this person. I could do life with this person, right? I want to touch on one thing before we go on is I watched that podcast that you was on and what was so amazing to me was that when you were born, you said your mother was 19, she will hold you in her arms and be rocking with you while listening to the word or doing stuff like that, right? So you said that was engraved into you and that didn't happen to me. But my grandmother, I'm telling you, although I didn't pay attention back then, I remember every single morning waking up, I kid you not, my grandmother would study her word, praying, praising, crying. I'm talking about from 06:00 a.m. To about noon, 6 hours. Like my grandmother, if she didn't make it to heaven, nobody deserves to go. That's all I got. If she didn't make it, nobody deserved to go. Man, she old school. But her doing that and I didn't know that. It was just like putting them season to me, right? And she raised me with so much love. And truly, if God didn't put her in my life, I don't think I would have been here. So I give all the glory to God that he did everything that he done for me to get to this point in my life right now. [00:25:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that's dope, man. Because there's a couple of things that I want to jump speak on real quick that you discussed, like the conversation about your grandmother and my mom, right? The Bible says, I believe it's Paul planted Apollo's water, but God gives the increase. So those seeds that you plant, right, you're going to reap a harvest at some time. You just have to be careful what you plant. You reap what you sow. You just don't sow when you reap, you reap later on down the line. [00:25:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:46] Speaker A: So always be mindful of what you're sowing. And you often get more back than you get more in return than what you sow. That's the laws of sowing and reaping. So if you think about that real quick, if you're listening to this podcast right now, what am I sowing and what am I getting in return? So if you don't like what you're getting. You need to focus in on what you're giving. [00:26:11] Speaker B: Come on. The Bible said it's better to give than receive. Come on, now. [00:26:15] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. But also, just be careful what you're giving because you're going to get it back more abundantly than you gave it. [00:26:25] Speaker B: Hey, look, what I tell people all the time is, you know when you're doing wrong, bro. You know when. Okay, I'm about to do this, I think I shouldn't do it. We all know, right? And so, like you said, be conscious of what you are giving because it will come back. It will come back. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Exactly. And then the other piece I want to touch on is you said, what type of person shoots a child? Right. You have to look at it, though. And this is how we have to start looking at life as we're going through our obstacles and our challenges with people in our circle, even with your family members. The Bible says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God, meaning they're not. So basically, you're wrestling against a spirit that was a spirit in that person that did not want you to birth the gift that God had inside of you. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Come on now. [00:27:24] Speaker A: That's why he tried to kill you, right? Because now you are going around and you are impacting thousands of lives with your story and you're showing people, hey, you look like me or I look like. Or they're saying to themselves, I look like him. If he did it, I can do it. Right? [00:27:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:41] Speaker A: And then the other last little point I wanted to make is you talked about the opportunity to make money and what you're doing just by impacting the world. Right? This is one thing I do know. God will not use you and not pay you more than God will not use you and not pay you double or triple what you went through. So if God wants to use you, you are going to reap a harvest and it's going to be plentiful. If anybody tells you that you're working for God and you're supposed to be poor, that ain't a God. That ain't the right God. Because God said, the earth is my footstool. He put his foot on the earth. Come on now. He said, a cow on a thousand heels are mine. So God will use you and he will bless you. If you allow him to use you, he's going to bless you. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Trust me. [00:28:33] Speaker A: It might not come when you want it to come, but it's coming. You guarantee it. You can go in this Bible, right here. And he'll tell you, right? He said, if your ways please me, I'll give you the desires of your heart. [00:28:46] Speaker B: Come on now. [00:28:48] Speaker A: So that's why you're able to get up on that stage and do the things that you get to do and live a life that you want to live, because you allowed yourself to yield to God's sovereignty. So when you don't yield to God's sovereignty and you try to do things your own way, that's where you struggle. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Come on now. No, that's very powerful because this is how we got to look at it. Okay? I truly believe God has a purpose for everybody, but he's not going to allow you to live out your purpose if you're not obedient to him, if you're not a giver, if you're not a server. And maybe you may be doing great in life, you may be having the best life, you may be having all these cars, all this money, but yet you can't find joy. You can't find happiness. And the only place you can find joy and happiness, the true place you can only find that is in Jesus. That's the only place. Like your wife, I'm sorry, she can't give you joy. Your husband can't give you joy. I don't know what it is, your job, exercise, whatever it is that can't give you joy, that could just add to it. The only joy that we could get from is Jesus Christ. That's the only place we could get it from. And so, as Carlton said, right, he has a purpose for everybody. Not just listening to this podcast, but everybody on this earth. But the question that you have to ask yourself is, are you going to be obedient to him and allow him to use you, right? [00:30:17] Speaker A: And that's what we're getting. Like, we're talking about. Well, why do you guys have a podcast? Everybody has a podcast. One, we have a podcast because we're being obedient to God. God led us down this direction. But two, the mission and the purpose of this podcast is to share our story and our testimony. It will resonate with somebody, right? Is that build up a community of kingdom minded men, right? To let you see that there's somebody out here that looks like you and has been through something similar to you, has climbed up out of the pit and has become to make an impact in this world, to change your mindset about the way that you think. Like, here's the thing. I know. The way that you view yourself is how you will view God. In your life and how he can show up for you in your life. So if you don't show up for yourself, you don't think God will show up for you. So we want to elevate your mindset because the Bible says, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So we're going to help you change your mindset if you take the information, the nuggets that we drop, right? Because this young man is wise beyond his years. And I've just started rereading proverbs. And the main thing that proverbs talks about is wisdom. Like, it talks about trusting God and yielding to God's sovereignty. Here's the thing, right? Here's one thing I want to share with you. You don't have to pray to God so God can know your situation. He already knows your situation. When you pray to God, you're saying, I yield to your sovereignty to fix this matter for me. And I'm coming to you to fix this matter for me, not trying to fix it myself. I'm going to talk to the master strategist so you can give me strategy to change my situation. Come on, now. So we're going to give you tools like that. We're going to give you these tools that you can put in your tool belt, and you can change the trajectory of your life, and you can become whoever you desire to be and what God has designed you to be if you just take the tools. Look, right. I'm going to say this, and I'm going to turn it over to you. A diamond is only made under pressure. So if you can't stand the pressure, you might not be a diamond. You might be a cubic zirconia. But we're going to help you be that diamond, man. [00:32:41] Speaker B: He talk about my chain right here. That's messed up my brother. No, man, I love it. I love it. Everything you just said right now is facts. It's the truth. And like I said, that's all we're going to be doing on this podcast, is just giving you the truth. Right? And I'm talking to people who don't even believe in themselves right now. Before you can step into the greatness, before you can step into the purpose that you have destined for yourself, you have to believe in yourself, that yourself could do that. Right? And there's a lot of people in this world. I mean, I have people that I talk to on a daily basis. I have people that I mentor and things like that, and they truly believe that they can't be successful because of their past. They truly believe that they can't get out that situation that they're currently in. Like, they truly believe that. And I'm coming from somebody who was supposed to be born with down syndrome, who got shot at the age of five, who battled depression, who tried to commit suicide, who was overweight, who got bullied. I'm coming from poverty. I'm talking about being broke. By the third of the month, we had no money. Every single month, my grandmother had to take out a loan. And so every single month, guys, and I'm telling you, guys, I'm coming from a place like that, and I'm telling you, whatever rut that you're in, you could get through it, and you could get out of it, but it's so significant that you get out of it. And when you get out of it, I need you to do this, though. When you get out of it, you got to remember the people behind you, because you're not supposed to get out of it and just forget about everybody else. No, there's a world out there. And that's why we're giving back to this podcast, man. You know how many times I tried to start a podcast, bro? I tried to start a podcast by myself with another friend. I had. It never fell through, right? It never fell on my time. But it's God's timing. This one is God's timing. And so that's. Come on. I'm so excited to do with you, man, because, like I said, we like minded. And I never told you this, but I look up to you. You're my father's age, man. But he's on this side of spectrum. He's on this side of spectrum. And that's not to compare you to, but what I'm saying is I truly look up to you and just the things that you value in life, like, you take care of your wife, you take care of your kids. That's the type of man that I want to surround myself around, because I don't want to surround myself around somebody who don't take care of their wife, who don't take care of their kids, because that's going to rub off on me. And so to surround myself by somebody like you, I know that. And I'm learning from you, too. Things that you tell me, I'm like, okay, I'm writing this down. I'm putting in my mind. I'm holding it close to my heart, because when I get 53, I'm going to be dangerous. [00:35:11] Speaker A: You're going to be ten times the man I am, right? And that's what we're supposed to do. But the beauty of it is, I learned from you as well, right? Because you have a little bit more seasoning in the space that I'm moving into that I ran for so long. So I look at you for inspiration, for information, for ideas and things to bounce off you, right? And that's the beauty of life, right? Doesn't matter who you are, where you are in life, you can learn from somebody. Just because you're an age doesn't mean that somebody younger than you can't teach you something. Just because you're a certain age doesn't mean that you can't accomplish what God put you on this earth to do. [00:35:55] Speaker B: Come on. Now. [00:35:55] Speaker A: They say Colonel Sanders came up with KFC in the 60s in his sixty s, and look at KFC now, right? And he tried over and over and over to build different businesses till it finally fell through. So does not matter who you are, what you know, where you're at. If you are willing and open up your mind, you elevate your mindset. That's why it's called the elevated Mindset podcast. It all starts right here. This is the projector to your reality. These are just the lenses that you see, what you project and build in here. So if we can get you to change the way that you think and you view the world and you view life and how you view yourself, right? We're not talking about the universe. We're talking about God, because God created the universe. How the universe going to bless you when God, the one that created the universe. [00:36:52] Speaker B: Come on now. [00:36:53] Speaker A: So you got to take those, like, his word. His word is like, it's foolproof. And here's the beautiful thing about it. It will not come back to him. Void. It's going to do what it went to do. So even, like, here's just a little nugget to you. I'm going to drop a little something on you. If you want to get God to move in your behalf, put his word back on him. But you got to be living according to the word, too. The Bible is not a book of principles. I mean, not a book of rules. It's a book of principles that if you follow them, you will be blessed beyond measure. And we're not talking about money, like, prosperity is not money. Money is a tool to use. Money is a beautiful tool, but a terrible master. [00:37:37] Speaker B: Say that one more time. Say that one more time. [00:37:39] Speaker A: For somebody who didn't hear it, money is a beautiful tool to use. But it's a terrible master. And if that's your master, you understand that you will not get too far too long. Like, we view everybody we know in the streets. Every drug movie that we watch, every gangster movie that we watch is one or two alternatives. They either die or they're in jail. Luckily, you might see somebody every now and then get out the game, but the majority of them do not get out the game. So we want to give people in Kevin's age bracket tools to avoid the prison complex system, the industrial complex system, basically legalized slavery. We want to give you the tools to become the God version of yourself. We want to give you the tools to live the life that you can only dream of if you just yield yourself to God. We're just conduits to that journey. And if we only say one thing to help you, then we've done our. So, you know, that's what we want to get into. Like Kevin, give them some of the topics that we've been thinking about discussing as we kind of migrated from a live, weekly, live platform to this podcast. What are some of the topics that you're just excited to get ready to discuss with the people and you know that they're going to be a blessing and change lives. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Yeah, man. So definitely the things that I'm really excited about this podcast is just straight up get into, we're going to talk a lot about manhood. We're going to talk a lot about being godly men, like how you said, being kingdom men. And although we say in man, this is for women, too, this is for everybody, right? Because I promise you, if you come to this podcast, no matter what type of walk you are in your life, you're going to get something from this, right? And as he said, it doesn't matter if you old, older, it doesn't matter if you're younger, you'd be ten, you can be 60, it does not matter, right? We all could learn something from somebody. And as long as you can humble yourself and live in that humility, then you could get through a lot of things. You could get through whatever you are going through in your life. So this podcast, man, we already have it laid out. I can't think of the topics off my head, but we already have it laid out. We about to be bringing some fire things to you the next episode, man, you guys are going to love it. I promise you. I guarantee you money back, even though you're not paying for this. But I guarantee you that if you listen to our podcast, you will get something from it, and you will actually absolutely love it, because before this, we were doing live, and people that I didn't even know were on the live or who watched it later, but said, man, I really need to hear what you guys said. And usually these people are older, too. Some of them are in my age bracket, but some of them are older, too. So all walks of life are listening to this, right? And it's just good knowing that we could change lives, not just when we step on stage, not just when we send somebody a text message or post on Instagram. But I'm praying that this platform reaches millions of people, and not for the fame, not for the glory, but just the impact that it could do for people. [00:40:50] Speaker A: That's right, man. We're doing what you call marketplace ministry. A lot of times people have a gift and they think they can only use that gift in church. But Paul and Silas, when they got arrested, they weren't in church, they were in the marketplace. That's where they did most of their ministry, was in the marketplace. So we are bringing God to the Marketplace. We're bringing kingdom mindset to the marketplace. We're not bringing religion like, we're getting to the exegesis, which means the originally intended meaning of a text or biblical verse. We're getting to the exegesis of manhood, like the intention of the intentionality of manhood, like what we were put on earth to do, which was to be fruitful, to multiply, to subdue and have dominion. [00:41:40] Speaker B: Come on. [00:41:41] Speaker A: Those are four things that I try to do everything. I try to be fruitful and multiply whatever knowledge I get in this head of mine every day when I go work out, I'm trying to be fruitful with every aspect of my life, and I'm trying to subdue and dominate in every lane that I go in. So that's what we're going to talk about, right? We're going to talk about traits of godly men. We're going to talk about how to help you find your purpose, how to get closer to God, how to hear from God. Like, we have so many different topics that are coming your way. You just need to tune in, tell a friend, because if you've been blessed by what we said and you don't tell a friend, you're selfish. We don't want you to be selfish. We don't want no selfish. We don't want no selfish people in the elevated mindset community because we're building a community of elevated minds. Of kingdom minds. And that's the only way you can elevate your mind is through the kingdom. The Bible says the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge. So God is going to give us that knowledge and that wisdom to impart to you. It's up to you to take it and apply it. Knowledge is knowing something. Wisdom is applying said knowledge. Do you know a lot and not apply it, or are you wise and apply the knowledge that you have? That's what it takes, right? It's things like that, right? It's the little bitty small foxes that spoil the vine. It ain't the big things that you don't do. It's the small things that you miss. It's like not being consistent, not following through. Like we're going to talk about how consistency compounds. We can show you in the Bible where it's saying, being faithful of a few things, I'll make you rule over many. Everything is going to be back with facts. You know what I'm saying? We're not coming with no Wikipedia facts. We coming with biblical facts. Come on, man. Again, that's the purpose. Those are some of the topics that we're going to talk about and that's the value that we want to add. The more value that you add in life, the more opportunity you have to increase your earning potential. So we're going to add value to the world and watch God bless us. So, man, as we get ready to wrap this thing up today, right, we usually leave with some parting words of wisdom, some knowledge, something to leave the people that if they didn't hear anything else that we said. But I would advise you to get your notes when you watch this podcast, get your note, pencil and paper, get your iPhone, record it, whatever you need to do. But go back and listen to it two or three times because you'll get something different each time you listen to it. But what do you have for the people today, Mr. Kevon? Empowers. Empower the people with that know. [00:44:35] Speaker B: I'm gonna keep it simple today because the more you guys come, the more you guys gonna get. But there's a difference between hearing and listening, okay? You could come here and you could hear our podcast and it just goes in one ear and out the other. But I want you guys to listen to it. Listen to the things we talk about. I know for me, I speak pretty fast, so you really have to listen and dial in and like Carlton said, write it down. Because we're giving you biblical principles. We want you guys to be amazing. We want you to dominate whatever lane you are in in your life, dominate it. But for real, man, just come here and listen. Just listen. That's all we want you guys to do, listen and go tell somebody. Because like Carlton said, if you get something great from this podcast and you trying to keep it all to yourself and you don't want to give it to somebody else, and that's being super selfish. But I remember me and Carlton, man, we used to say this all the time when we first met each other, all of us cool, everybody, just because me and him are in the same field, I'm not finna not recommend him to somebody or I'm not gonna recommend him some places that to get him seen or get him heard or get him listened to. I'm not going to do that because I know what God has for him. I cannot take that away from him. I'm not his enemy. I'm not going to stop him, I'm not going to get in his way. I'm not going to take that away from him. We are brothers in Christ. I want you guys to understand that. Listen and please share. [00:46:04] Speaker A: Yeah, most definitely. Great parting words, Kevin. Like I said, my boy got it right. You see it, he got it right. Wise beyond his years out here doing things that you could only dream about doing at his age. But it's possible, right? And so even on the back end, if you're past that age and you're like, man, I don't know what I want to do, man, start talking to God where you can understand and hear his voice when he speaks to you. You got to understand, if you don't talk to God, he don't know your voice and you definitely won't know his voice. And I'm going to tell you this, your actions align with what you believe about yourself. So what do your actions say about you? What do your actions say about who you want to become? Your action have to match your talk. There's expectation and there's execution. You got to execute in order to get what you expect. A lot of times we want God to open doors for us and just say, I want a cake. You think God's going to bring a fully baked cake to your front door? No. He will give you the flour, he will give you the sugar, he will give you the butter, he will give you the oven to cook it in, and he'll give you the utensils to mix it up. Come on now, you missing out on the whole blessing because you don't want to do the work. You're going to have to work for everything. That God has for you, there's going to be some work involved in it, because if he just gave it to you, you wouldn't appreciate it. [00:47:42] Speaker B: Come on now. [00:47:43] Speaker A: You work for it. You appreciate who God is, what he's taking you through to get where you want to be. Come on now. So let's go. Let's get it. Let's grow. Let's elevate our minds. Let's elevate our thoughts. Let's elevate our actions. [00:47:59] Speaker B: Come on now. Hey, when I love what you that cake analogy. Another thing about it is that he's going to give you the temperature, because if you put a cake in the oven and it's too high of a temperature, it will get flat. If you open the oven too soon, it will get flat. The cake will be ruined. And not only will he give you the temperature, but he'll give you the time. Everything in life takes time. It's not just going to boom. Like you said, knock on the door, here goes the cake. No, you got to have every ingredient, every utensil. You got to get that oven ready. You got to warm it up. You got to do all that, right? We're going to be dropping a lot of nuggets here. We're going to be planting those seasons to you so you can sew it. But again, this is the elevated Mindset podcast. We are going to bring it to you guys. Again, my name is Kevon Lee, and I'm just happy to just share everything that we know with you guys. [00:48:50] Speaker A: Hey, we appreciate you, Kevon, your boy, cy, Mr. 80 20. And, Kevin, real quick, tell them where they can follow you on social media and how they can get information about what you have going on. [00:49:03] Speaker B: Oh, definitely. So if you want to learn more about me, my social medias are Kevon empowers. I'm heavily involved onto Instagram, so if you want to know anything about me, just go to Instagram. And my website is kevonley.com. It's super easy. Or you could just type in Kevin empowers and my website will pop up. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Great. So that's Kevon empowers kevonley.com. And at Kevon empowers on Instagram. You can find me on Instagram at iAM, 80 20 nation and carltonyung.com. That's where you can keep up with us, get information, see the podcast episodes, and find out where we're going to be sharing our gifts with. Kevon is a national speaker. I'm working towards that national platform as well. So if you want to stay connected to us, man. That's how you follow us. Share this episode with somebody. Comment on this episode. Like, this episode. If you like what we're doing, man, just show some love and share it with somebody else. That's all we're asking you to do. If we blessed you, be a blessing to somebody else, because you never know who this can help. Hey, until next time you're ready, tune in. We'll be dropping some previews of the next episode coming soon. Tune in to the elevated mind podcast. I'm your guy, Carl Young. That's my guy, Kevon Lee. Hey. And we're gone. [00:50:29] Speaker B: We're gone. We're out. We'll see you guys next.