The Exodus (What do you need to Exit)

[00:00:20] Speaker A: What's happening, good people? It is the elevated mindset podcast, guys, we are back up in this thing. I'm your boy Cy, one of the co hosts of the elevated mindset. And I got my brother. [00:00:34] Speaker B: You already. [00:00:38] Speaker C: Got my own. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Introduce yourself. [00:00:40] Speaker C: I'm not going to introduce you. [00:00:42] Speaker D: Come on now. You already know it's Kevon Lee here. [00:00:45] Speaker B: Kevon empowers. [00:00:48] Speaker A: All right, all right. [00:00:49] Speaker C: Kevon empowers is an amazing friend, amazing. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Brother, amazing soon to be dad. How was that coming, man? [00:00:58] Speaker C: How was the pregnancy coming? How was Miss Lee doing? [00:01:03] Speaker D: Honestly, people are surprised because we went to event on Friday, well, last Friday, and she was moving around, doing everything. People are like, dang, she's moving like that. She's looking so good. She get compliments everywhere she goes. She's feeling good. She says she don't mind being pregnant. So hopefully, because I want about seven to ten kids, she's over here talking about two to three, maybe, and that three is like, only if God says so about. I want like seven to ten. [00:01:29] Speaker A: But we don't see overall reconsider. Read some literature on the subject. I'm going to tell you, like I heard John Maxwell say when we went. [00:01:39] Speaker C: To church, I go to. They sent the leadership team to local. [00:01:44] Speaker A: Conference here called climb at one community church. [00:01:47] Speaker C: Shout out to Pastor Conway. [00:01:48] Speaker A: It's an amazing man of God and. [00:01:51] Speaker C: Leader building a super dope church here in the DFW area. [00:01:55] Speaker A: And actually, he's got multiple locations, but. [00:01:57] Speaker C: He had a conference called Klein, and. [00:02:00] Speaker A: It was about leadership. [00:02:01] Speaker C: So John Maxwell, who is the guru of leadership, was there, right? And so he was talking about his children. [00:02:08] Speaker A: And so he said the only reason he had his son is because he. [00:02:11] Speaker C: Had his daughter first. [00:02:14] Speaker A: So the daughter was like, easy breezy, didn't give him no trouble, was just. [00:02:20] Speaker C: The sweetest child in the world. [00:02:22] Speaker A: But then that son came, and it. [00:02:25] Speaker D: Was like cheer on wheels. [00:02:26] Speaker A: He said if he would have came first, that would have been the only child. Sometimes you just got to kind of weigh that thing out because the first one be good to that next one be like, bruh, where did this person come from? [00:02:39] Speaker C: How many children do you have? I have five. [00:02:42] Speaker A: My daughter came. [00:02:43] Speaker C: My oldest came first. [00:02:44] Speaker A: She was a good baby, but then she was a little knucklehead growing up. Then the twins, they were kind of cool. And then the middle one, she was a handful at one time. And then the youngest one, she's sweet right now. So it's almost like a crapshoot, you. [00:03:00] Speaker C: Know what I mean? [00:03:01] Speaker A: So you just got to be careful with it, you know what I'm saying? So don't roll the dice too often. [00:03:06] Speaker C: You bound to get craps. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Look, I firmly believe in whooping children, all right? [00:03:14] Speaker D: Let me not put it like that. Look, I used to get whoopings. I don't know what I'm going to do when I'm a dad, especially because it's going to be my little girl, my little daughter. So I'm a parent differently, but I don't know, when I was a kid, I used to get wool beans, like crate. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Well, you know, they spare the ride, spoil the child. So you don't want to spoil the child. [00:03:34] Speaker C: Right, exactly. [00:03:35] Speaker A: So anyway, I'm glad that everything is going well with the pregnancy. Glad to see that you're doing amazing. I see you out here in these streets, you know what I'm saying? [00:03:43] Speaker C: Putting in that work, letting that consistency compound, impacting the world. [00:03:50] Speaker A: Super dope, brother. And I love what you're doing. [00:03:53] Speaker C: I love the impact that you're making. [00:03:56] Speaker A: I love where we're going as a collective team, right? [00:04:00] Speaker C: And what we're building, right? [00:04:02] Speaker A: If they say if you build it, they will come. So the thing I posted this today, right? Focus on the talents that God gave you. [00:04:11] Speaker C: Do the soul work, the inner work. [00:04:14] Speaker A: And build that table or that house. [00:04:16] Speaker C: Or that foundation, brick by brick, and watch them come. [00:04:19] Speaker A: And that's what we doing. We are here building brick by brick. [00:04:22] Speaker C: On a solid foundation. [00:04:24] Speaker A: But the only way you can build on that solid foundation. This is kind of smooth how I segue into our topic today, right? So we talk about doing the soul. [00:04:33] Speaker C: Work, the inner work. [00:04:35] Speaker A: But now we're going to talk about. [00:04:36] Speaker C: Exodus, the Book of Exodus, right? So the exodus literally means the road out. It's a latin term for exodus, which means to leave or departure. [00:04:49] Speaker A: So we're going to talk about those. [00:04:51] Speaker C: Things that we as men need to depart, exit out of in order to. [00:04:57] Speaker A: Get to that divine version of ourself, to get to that calling of who God has intended us to be, for us to make the impact that we were designed to make, right. [00:05:06] Speaker C: You were born not to lose. [00:05:09] Speaker A: You got to understand that if you are listening to this podcast, believe in yourself and understand that you were born not to lose. [00:05:17] Speaker C: If you lose it now, it's okay. You can come back from that if. [00:05:22] Speaker A: You keep that mentality that you were born not to lose. But first things first, right? We talked about self discipline. We talked about accountability. We talked about those things. So we're kind of building this bridge for you. Brick by brick, to kind of give you a blueprint on what you need to do to be the most effective. [00:05:40] Speaker C: Version of who you are. [00:05:43] Speaker A: I remember when I was in the military, we just had this thing that said that the m 16, the maximum effective range of the m 16 was. I think it was 2653 meters. [00:05:52] Speaker C: Don't shoot me if I'm wrong. I can't remember it, but what is. [00:05:56] Speaker A: Your maximum effective range? Are you building that weapon, your mind to be, to shoot at maximum effective range? Because when you're out here facing the world today, you got to be on ready, you got to be on go. And the only way you can do. [00:06:17] Speaker C: That is you clean out your house. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Right? [00:06:20] Speaker C: I'll put it to you this way. [00:06:22] Speaker A: You wouldn't go to a black tie event with gym wear on that you had on last week, and you hadn't taken a shower, you hadn't shaved, you hadn't shampooed, you hadn't done your due diligence to look your best. You're not stepping into a black tie. [00:06:34] Speaker C: Event without cleaning up. [00:06:36] Speaker A: So that's like life, right? [00:06:37] Speaker C: You have to clean up. [00:06:39] Speaker A: So, as we talk about this subject, Kevin, talk to me about what exodus means to you. What are some of the things that you possibly had to exit in life. [00:06:49] Speaker C: To get where you're. [00:06:51] Speaker A: Let's listen. The gloves are off. We about to get down dirty. We about to get deep, right? We about to be a little transparent, right? Because sometimes people need to know, although it looks like gold on the outside, it's bronze, or it's contaminated on the inside if you don't clean it up. So let's talk about this, man. [00:07:13] Speaker B: Let's get into this thing, man. [00:07:15] Speaker D: So, like you said, we about to take the gloves off. We about to get up in there, get grimy, but tell the truth, right? And that's what this podcast is about. We got to be vulnerable, because I know there's other men out there struggling with things, just hearing us. We could be an inspiration to them. But when I think about things that. [00:07:33] Speaker B: I had to exit from, you know what? [00:07:37] Speaker D: Should I just go in and just take off? [00:07:39] Speaker C: All go there, man. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Gloves off, man. Let's just go there, man. Let's just go there. [00:07:43] Speaker D: Let's just go there. All right, so, man, when it comes to vices, okay, I want to start off that. When it comes to vices, I never struggle with drugs because I never touched drugs, because I already knew that if. [00:07:55] Speaker B: I did drugs, the more likely of. [00:07:59] Speaker D: Me being addicted to them would be greater, because I realized that people in my family were, they got addicted to drugs, they got addicted to alcohol. So I never had that alcohol or drugs. But, man, I remember, and I know this is a very heavy topic, especially in the christian faith and all that stuff, because a lot of people struggle with this. People still go to church, and it's cool. But as long as you work on yourself and try to beat that vice, and the vice I'm talking about is pornography. I was literally introduced to pornography, if. [00:08:38] Speaker B: I'm being real with you, man, from my earliest remembrance, from my earliest remember. [00:08:43] Speaker D: I'm talking about maybe three, four for sure, before I was five. So I know for sure it was before I got shot at the age of five. I was already introduced to it to where? Man, it's crazy, because I remember where I live at. I'm telling you, we get in here because it's crazy. I remember as a young boy, and. [00:09:01] Speaker B: I remember this girl was nine, and. [00:09:03] Speaker D: Her brother might have been 15, and. [00:09:07] Speaker B: It was another guy, just some crazy stuff, like they were having sex, right? Wow. [00:09:13] Speaker D: And I'm four or five years old at this time, and I'm already introduced to this, and I'm just like, man, what are they doing? And even as a kid, although you really don't know what's happening, you got to think about that. [00:09:23] Speaker B: That stays in your mind, right? [00:09:25] Speaker D: And so you introduced to that at a young age. And then when it came to pornography, I was introduced to that maybe around eight, nine years old. My cousin had showed me a video. I didn't know what the heck it was. And so growing up, I used to think that this was okay to watch pornography. [00:09:42] Speaker B: I mean, to me, it was like. [00:09:44] Speaker D: Any other movie or any other show. That's all it was, right. And I didn't know that. [00:09:49] Speaker B: It was such a mental to the point where, okay, I could watch it anytime, anytime I wanted to, right. [00:09:58] Speaker D: And so was it addiction, maybe? [00:10:01] Speaker B: Was it. [00:10:01] Speaker D: I don't know. But I wouldn't do it in public, or I wouldn't get off work to do it or take a break to do it. Like I said, I wouldn't watch it in public, usually be in my room or something like that. But I definitely broke that habit a long time ago because that stuff right there is dangerous. They literally said pornography is, if not. [00:10:21] Speaker B: The same, worse than taking drugs. It literally shrinks your brain. I can believe it. [00:10:28] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. Right. And it's so accepted now in our days, right, because you go into instagram, you see people half naked, maybe naked celebrities, especially in the music world or acting. You see it on tv, people having sex, sex scenes. You see people have dressed on social media. And I'm talking about sometimes they be super young teenagers who are getting out there in music or people who are. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Even older people, right? [00:10:57] Speaker D: It's so accepted, and especially with this thing right here, a phone. It is so accessible now to the point where if I wanted to, I could go on my phone right now and type in something and it'll pop up, right? [00:11:08] Speaker C: We know Pornhub. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Boom. [00:11:12] Speaker D: We ain't even got to lie about a pornhub, right? [00:11:15] Speaker C: Look, we've all been there. You give me. [00:11:17] Speaker D: So you go in there, you type it up, it comes up. And if it's accessible to me, I'm 25, about to be 26 years old. Imagine for the little kids. A couple of days ago, I was at a workshop at a group home, and a third grade had a phone. She had a phone. I'm just like, man, she was texting somebody. I'm like, who are you? I looked at her, I said, you have a phone? [00:11:38] Speaker B: She's like, yes. [00:11:39] Speaker D: Who do you even be texting? Right? So I already know that even at a young age, they're accessible to this. And I wouldn't doubt that most of. [00:11:47] Speaker B: Them have been seeing things like that. [00:11:50] Speaker C: Oh, understandable. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Understandable, man. Hey, everybody has a different vice, right? [00:11:55] Speaker C: Yours was pornography. [00:11:58] Speaker A: I dealt with it for a little. [00:11:59] Speaker C: Bit, but then I started understanding the. [00:12:02] Speaker A: Impact it had on my psyche, lot. [00:12:05] Speaker C: Of aspects of life, and I just. [00:12:07] Speaker A: Realized that that wasn't in my best interest. [00:12:09] Speaker C: Right. [00:12:10] Speaker A: And I'm thankful for that being one. [00:12:12] Speaker C: Thing that I was able to kind. [00:12:16] Speaker A: Of conquer and subdue and get over pretty quickly. Well, for me, I would say even today, right? Man, I was thinking about it today or yesterday. I think one of the things I. [00:12:27] Speaker C: Really need to exit is I have trust issues. Why is that? That comes from me not ever knowing. [00:12:37] Speaker A: My biological father, not ever being able to see him, wondering, okay, what's the deal with that? That you're not coming to see me, et cetera. And so you got that disappointment because. [00:12:51] Speaker C: You know, you're a little different than other people, right? [00:12:55] Speaker A: So it creates a trust factor. I'm not the person that's going to be digging and looking to see what you're doing, but it's like, I will wait for you to let me down. I know at some point you're going. [00:13:11] Speaker C: To let me down, right? [00:13:13] Speaker A: And that's not fair because it does. [00:13:15] Speaker C: Not give the relationship what it needs to in friendships and relationships. [00:13:21] Speaker A: What have you? So that's one thing that I know. [00:13:23] Speaker C: I really need to work on. [00:13:26] Speaker A: And another thing that it birthed for. [00:13:29] Speaker C: Me was just that need for validation and. [00:13:36] Speaker A: Those affirmations to be made to feel like. [00:13:41] Speaker C: You. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Great, right? Because when you missing those type of things, you automatically are looking for somebody. [00:13:47] Speaker C: To give you what you didn't need, right? [00:13:49] Speaker A: And I know Pastor Conway, one time he preached a message about there were. [00:13:54] Speaker C: Like four or five buckets that a teenage child needs filled before they turn 13. [00:14:01] Speaker A: And if you don't get those buckets. [00:14:03] Speaker C: Love, trust all those buckets. [00:14:07] Speaker A: I have to look them up line by line. And I can do that and give them to you later. But if you don't get those buckets completed or filled, you will be looking. [00:14:17] Speaker C: To fill those buckets in life, right? [00:14:20] Speaker A: So a lack of love, you find yourself in the wrong relationships, dealing with the wrong things, searching after the wrong. [00:14:27] Speaker C: Types of love, those type of scenarios, right? [00:14:32] Speaker A: So I think for me, it's not more so the bigger things, right? Like the things that I know that I shouldn't do, I've been able to kind of like exit because of my strengthened relationship with Christ and knowing that I should be living a certain way and understanding that I need him to help me with those things. Because those are like the big things. But I think the little foxes, right, they say it's the little foxes that spoil the vine. So those little bitty things that you really don't think about, like fear of failure, negative image of yourself, staying in. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Your comfort zone, being around a negative group of people, a negative circle, lack. [00:15:09] Speaker A: Of accountability, unresolved trauma, those are also. [00:15:12] Speaker C: Things that we need to exit that play a bigger part in our life and how we show up daily if. [00:15:19] Speaker A: You don't exit that thing, right? [00:15:21] Speaker C: And so one thing about exodus, right, the book of Exodus, it symbolizes redemption, liberation from God, and it shows God's faithfulness towards his people. [00:15:33] Speaker A: So you have to look at it from a metaphorical standpoint and understand that those things, you still need to exit from today. So those things you talked about the main thing, right? [00:15:46] Speaker C: The big thing, right. [00:15:48] Speaker A: I think a lot of people, it's easy to kind of say, yeah, I got that problem. And I'm not saying that that makes it less or that's knocking somebody because. [00:15:57] Speaker C: They have those problems, right? But I think the bigger picture for me is, like I said, those little things, right? The little speck in your eye, how. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Do you address that, right? How do you exit the need for validation? How do you exit the need to please people. How do you exit a lack of. [00:16:18] Speaker C: Focus in your life? [00:16:20] Speaker A: And you can't seem to get any traction in going where you desire to go or where you know you need to go. [00:16:26] Speaker C: It's like you get started, you get. [00:16:28] Speaker A: The car out the driveway, and you. [00:16:29] Speaker C: Run out of gas. So how do we exit those things, right? How do we build on what we. [00:16:39] Speaker A: Know we need to build on? [00:16:40] Speaker C: And how do we not turn a twelve day journey into a 40 year journey? [00:16:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's interesting that you said that. [00:16:47] Speaker D: Because how you said that you were seeking validation because you was fatherless and all that. It was the same thing for me to where it wasn't my father, but. [00:16:56] Speaker B: It was my mother growing up. [00:16:58] Speaker D: As a child, I grew up with my grandmother because she adopted me. She got me out of foster care. So I lived with my grandmother from the ages of seven to 19 when I graduated high school. Then I went to college, right? And although I lived with her, she showed me so much love. She taught me all my values, my morals, and everything that I stand for. And at that time, I didn't think about it. But as I got older, especially when she passed away, I started seeking that mother validation in a lot of older women. And I'm talking about to the point where any older person, I'll call them mom, right? And I never realized that it was something like, Kevin, what are you missing? Or what are you trying to get from this? Right? I got multiple godmoms. [00:17:42] Speaker C: Horrible. [00:17:43] Speaker B: I know, right? [00:17:43] Speaker D: I got multiple know I don't. [00:17:50] Speaker C: Like. [00:17:50] Speaker D: Okay. And my mom is still here. My mom is still alive, right? But I don't get that son mother relationship that I really want from her. And so I used to seek that in so many people, to the point where I sought that out in my wife. Well, back then, she was my fiance and things like that. [00:18:10] Speaker B: It's not like that now, but to. [00:18:12] Speaker D: The point where I wanted her not to treat me like a child, but to love me as if a mother. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Loved a son, I realized that was. [00:18:21] Speaker D: A huge problem, right? And I remember I was in therapy, and I was talking to my therapist. I had this one therapist, man, she was black. [00:18:29] Speaker B: Boy, she used to go in on. [00:18:31] Speaker D: Me, like, tell me straight up, I'd be like, bruh, why are you so tough on your boy? Right? But it was something that I needed. And I said, look, I don't know why I feel this way towards my mom. It's not hatred. It's like anger, it's mad, it's sadness. All in one, I don't know what it is. And we kept digging. We kept digging. [00:18:50] Speaker B: She said, maybe it's because when you. [00:18:53] Speaker D: Had got shot, your mother was there and she was supposed to protect you. And because she didn't protect you, maybe you starting to feel this way towards her. And I never realized it then, but I realized that I was trying to seek protection from other women in my life. And, yeah, man, that's something I really had to get through, right? Because there was so long that I couldn't even forgive my mother at the time. And I know that's another huge thing, right? A lot of people can't go to the next level or go where God needs them to go to is because you can't forgive. You can't forgive. It's a tough thing. And it's crazy because every single time I go do a speech, it doesn't matter where I go, whether I'm talking to adults, whether I'm talking to students, I promise you it does not matter. And I won't even talk about my. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Parents in a speech, right? [00:19:39] Speaker D: But I'll talk about how I got shot, bullied, all these different things. A student will always come up to. [00:19:46] Speaker B: Me and be, how do you forgive? [00:19:49] Speaker D: Did you forgive your parents for what happened? I'm going through this rough time. I'm going through so much right now. How do I get through it, right? And so that's what people really struggle with, man. [00:20:00] Speaker B: But I forgot what your question was. I went on a table. [00:20:05] Speaker A: That was good stuff. Good stuff. [00:20:06] Speaker C: Because also we can talk about forgiveness. Can have you in bondage. [00:20:11] Speaker A: If you don't forgive, that can be. [00:20:13] Speaker C: A form of bondage, right? [00:20:14] Speaker A: Because the Bible says. What's the prayer say? Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors. [00:20:22] Speaker C: You have to forgive in order to be forgiven. [00:20:25] Speaker A: And then what's even bigger than that. [00:20:27] Speaker C: Is not just forgiving a person, but forgiving yourself. [00:20:32] Speaker B: That's the biggest one right there. [00:20:33] Speaker A: That's the biggest one. Because sometimes you'd be, like, holding on to things like, man, I should have known better. I shouldn't have did that. And that thing will have you so weighed down, and then you'll feel like you weigh 800 pounds and you'll never be able to get where you need to go. And we have to understand that that is like, the trick of the enemy is to play with your mind, and. [00:20:54] Speaker C: He wants to keep you on repeat, right? [00:20:57] Speaker A: He wants to have that commercial playing in repeat in your mind, making you think, yeah, you messed up, you stupid. You shouldn't have did that, I can say I've dealt with that and I still deal with that to this day. At point in times where I have to really just open my bible or pray or watch something that's really positive in order to overcome that minute. Right. Or that instance where I'm thinking about. [00:21:20] Speaker C: A mistake I made and the mistake. [00:21:23] Speaker A: Is over and done with. There's no going back. [00:21:25] Speaker C: There's no changing it. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Right. [00:21:26] Speaker C: You forgive yourself. [00:21:28] Speaker A: You ask for forgiveness for those that you may have offended, those that offended you, you forgive them, because sometimes they're never going to ask for forgiveness anyway. They'll be going on with their life, enjoying their life, and you're holding on. [00:21:42] Speaker C: To what's going on with them and it's just weighing you down and killing you. Yeah, slowly, right. It's like cancerous metastasizing. It's spreading throughout your body and it's killing you. [00:21:57] Speaker D: And I think what's so important about what you just said is that you said, okay, we make these mistakes and we can't forgive ourselves. We have to understand that we're going to make mistakes. We are not perfect. We sin. We sin and we don't even know we sinning. Right. And so to understand that you're going to make mistakes, but how are you going to differ from that? How are you going to change from that? Although you made this mistake today, are you going to get better? Are you going to change what you did? [00:22:23] Speaker A: Okay. [00:22:23] Speaker D: You made this. [00:22:24] Speaker B: Okay. I'm not going to do that again. [00:22:26] Speaker D: I'm going to get better. [00:22:27] Speaker C: Right. [00:22:28] Speaker D: And that's the same thing when it comes to forgiving other people. You have to forgive yourself. It's more important to forgive people, not for them, but for yourself. [00:22:36] Speaker B: That's the thing. [00:22:37] Speaker D: Right. Because there's times in life when we can't get through something how you just said, right. And that hinders us from our blessings. [00:22:43] Speaker B: And we have to get through that if we want to see what God has for us. [00:22:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:49] Speaker A: And that's the thing about it. [00:22:50] Speaker C: And that's when I'm talking about you. [00:22:52] Speaker A: Turning a twelve day and journey into. [00:22:53] Speaker C: A 40 year journey. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Like unforgiveness can do that. [00:22:57] Speaker C: Right. [00:22:57] Speaker A: We know why the children of Israel stayed in the wilderness so long. Because they were disobedient. They didn't have faith. [00:23:02] Speaker C: They didn't trust. [00:23:03] Speaker A: And you have to ask yourself, am. [00:23:05] Speaker C: I like the children of Israel? [00:23:06] Speaker A: Do I lack obedience? Do I lack faith? [00:23:09] Speaker C: Do I lack trust? Am I holding on to things and idols that are hindering my moving forward. [00:23:20] Speaker A: In the way in space that God. [00:23:22] Speaker C: Wants me to go. [00:23:24] Speaker A: And sometimes you really have to sit. [00:23:26] Speaker C: Down and look at yourself and put. [00:23:29] Speaker A: This stuff down on paper another way. I think you talked about visiting your counselor, right? I think that's very important. You talk to God, but also talk to a counselor. They're here for a reason, right? And they can help you understand why. [00:23:43] Speaker C: You respond to things a certain way. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Like, I understood, I started to understood. [00:23:48] Speaker C: Why I look for validation in different things once I started going through counseling, right? [00:23:55] Speaker A: Because like you said, that thing that you were missing when you were young. [00:23:58] Speaker C: You'Re always yearning to fill that bucket. [00:24:02] Speaker A: And that's what happens with all of us, right? Whenever something reminds us of something that happened when we were younger and more. [00:24:10] Speaker C: Impressionable and that bucket didn't get filled, and we see something that happens in. [00:24:16] Speaker A: Present day, even as grown men and women. And you know what happens? [00:24:20] Speaker C: That little kid shows right back up. [00:24:23] Speaker A: And then you're wanting that little kid to be validated. You want that little kid to feel loved. You want to feel that little kid to feel supported. [00:24:31] Speaker C: But you have to understand why you have that need for that thing that's. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Making you seek validation, making you please people, making you watch porn, making you chase women to ease the pain, making you use drugs, making you drink alcohol, making you spend a lot of money that you don't have, making you just doing things that are not productive and conducive to where you're trying to go. [00:24:57] Speaker C: Or where you want to go, because. [00:25:00] Speaker A: Again, you're in bondage and you need to have tell pharaoh, let my people go. In other words, pharaoh, let me. [00:25:11] Speaker D: It's like everything that happens to you, there's always a cause to it. And when I say that, right, for instance, me, right, being very into pornography and stuff like that, it's the things that I seen as a child, right. It's the things that I was molested, right, by a family member. So seeing things like that, it makes. [00:25:32] Speaker B: You start to think that you're okay. [00:25:34] Speaker D: Well, it's okay to do it. [00:25:36] Speaker B: And then as you get older, you. [00:25:39] Speaker D: Will hope that you realize, like, this is not okay. I need help. I need to go to therapy. I need to talk to somebody. I need mindset training, whatever the thing might be, right? And so when it even comes to forgiveness, why can't you forgive? [00:25:54] Speaker B: Well, what happened in your life? [00:25:56] Speaker D: And usually happens when you're a child. If you go to a therapist, they will always bring it back to something that happened when you were younger. And you'll realize, man, I don't lost 20 something years of constantly not be able to forgive this person, 2030 years and boom, sometimes they pass away. And then that's like a huge thing, too. If you don't forgive somebody before they. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Pass away, that's a really hard thing on some people. [00:26:21] Speaker D: But you're wasting your life living in that moment when, like how you said you could turn a twelve day journey into a 40 year journey, right? And so you're wasting your entire life just because of something that probably isn't even that drastic to the point where it has to go on for that long. If you just had maybe the tools and the resources before and the knowledge. [00:26:43] Speaker B: To understand it way back then, right? [00:26:47] Speaker A: And so those that are listening right now, what I want you guys to do is I want, you know, leave a comment on the YouTube page, leave. [00:26:55] Speaker C: A comment on the snips when you hear this episode. [00:27:00] Speaker A: Leave what you need to exit or what you've had to exit this from, if you know, strong enough to share with other people, because a lot of people need to hear what you're going through, right? Everybody isn't going through the same thing, but we all are going through the. [00:27:16] Speaker C: Same thing, if that makes sense. [00:27:18] Speaker A: Some people are going through the same thing at the same time. It's just different scenarios, different vices. [00:27:23] Speaker C: So go to the YouTube page, comment. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Comment on the podcast page, just comment and tell us what you need to. [00:27:31] Speaker C: Exit from, what you need prayer or. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Help to exit from. And what is extending your time in the wilderness, right? Because we want you to get out the wilderness, because you're not going to last in the wilderness forever. [00:27:43] Speaker C: And you don't want to be in. [00:27:45] Speaker A: The wilderness and be like Moses and never make it to the promised land. You only get a glimpse of the promised land, but you never get the opportunity to make it over because you can't leave all those things that are. [00:27:57] Speaker C: Holding you back down, right? [00:28:00] Speaker A: So what I want to ask to. [00:28:01] Speaker C: Talk about is we talked about things. [00:28:04] Speaker A: That could be holding us back. Let's talk about the steps to resolve and allow us to free ourselves, to. [00:28:12] Speaker C: Get out of bondage, to get out. [00:28:14] Speaker A: Of the wilderness, and to move towards our expected end, right? The things that God has promised us, the visions that we have in our. [00:28:21] Speaker C: Head that he's placed there. Like, what can we do? [00:28:24] Speaker A: Like steps that we can take or. [00:28:26] Speaker C: Steps that you took as Kevon empowers. [00:28:29] Speaker A: To get over those that pornography to get know, the need for validation, to get over all those things that you've been a victim to and that you. [00:28:40] Speaker C: Could have stayed a victim to. [00:28:41] Speaker A: And that's the thing. [00:28:42] Speaker C: You can be a victim or you can be a victor. [00:28:46] Speaker D: Come on, now. Okay, so we are building on this podcast. We're being kingdom men, kingdom women, whoever listens to. We want to do that, right? [00:28:55] Speaker B: And so when I talk about this. [00:28:58] Speaker D: I want to talk about it from a biblical standpoint, is that the reason I was able to get over a lot of those things is because I knew who I was in Christ's eyes, in Jesus Christ. I knew who I was in his eyes, right? And it's a hit, like when he made man, boom. And when he made man and woman, then he said, oh, now it's good, right? Because at first it was a man. Then he said, you know what? A man should not be alone. And he made a woman. Then he said, boom is good. [00:29:20] Speaker B: And so I realized that everything about. [00:29:23] Speaker D: Me, whether it's the good, whether it's the bad, it's the dark, the stuff. [00:29:28] Speaker B: That happened to it, it had to. [00:29:32] Speaker D: Happen to me in order for me to get to where I am right now, right? And if I never went through all that stuff, then I wouldn't be Kevin empowers. I wouldn't be able to step on the stage. And it doesn't matter what I talk about, but connect to people in such a way where they feel vulnerable enough to share to me what they're going, you know, it connects to people in that way. What was crazy is I went to a school. Have you ever heard the city? [00:29:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, Calabasas, right? [00:29:59] Speaker D: Kim Kardashians lived there. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Rich. [00:30:02] Speaker D: You can't be rich and live there. [00:30:03] Speaker B: You got to be wealthy. Wealthy people live there. [00:30:06] Speaker D: Went to the school, and I didn't even know the school was in Calabasas because when I looked at the directions, it didn't say Calabasas. It said another city. So I said, okay, but it's like, in the middle. It's right beside Calabasas. So all their students are in Calabasas. [00:30:20] Speaker B: So I went there, and I was. [00:30:22] Speaker D: Like, okay, so what are the pain points of your school? [00:30:24] Speaker B: She said, I'm going to be honest. [00:30:26] Speaker D: Mainly all my students here are really wealthy. They're well off. Like, they are celebrity kids and things like that. I'm like, man, what in the world am I going to talk to these students about? That's really what I was thinking. And so I said, you know what? I prayed and I said, God, whatever you want me to talk about, just let it come out and I'll glorify you for it. [00:30:47] Speaker B: So I spoke, boom. [00:30:48] Speaker D: And wealthy kid, they'll come up. They were like, yeah, I'm wealthy and people don't understand, but I go through depression. I want to commit suicide. I try to commit suicide. I'm actually using drugs right now. One guy was like, I keep using drugs and I keep getting off. I keep using it. So it's a cycle. And just things he was going through, right? [00:31:06] Speaker B: And so I realized that it had. [00:31:09] Speaker D: To be bigger than me. And when I say that, is that my purpose is bigger than me. And I read this quote, and it said, purpose is not what you could do. [00:31:15] Speaker B: Purpose is not what you could do. [00:31:17] Speaker D: But what you could do in others. So I realized that I had to step away from all the vices, all the things that were holding me back in order to step into the purpose that God designed for me, that he developed for me. The only thing that I could do at the optimum level to actually inspire and empower people. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Because at the end of day, it's not about us. [00:31:37] Speaker D: I truly believe that we're not on earth just for us. We're on earth to help other people and serve other people, right? Because that's what Jesus Christ did. He came on this earth, he could have came as the biggest king, having all the gold, all the riches. He could have came here. And if somebody crossed them, boom, you're out. You get what I'm saying? He could have did all those things, but yet he came down here humble. He washed people feet, he walked with people, he helped feed people. He did all these things. [00:32:05] Speaker B: And yet why would I think that. [00:32:07] Speaker D: I'm too good to do certain things? And so it all just starts right there, right? [00:32:14] Speaker B: To understand that I'm just a human being. [00:32:19] Speaker D: I go through things, I'm still going through things. I'm not going to act like I'm perfect. I don't made it in life night. No, there's still. Sometimes I doubt myself. There's still. Sometimes I go through things, but I have to realize what is the bigger purpose here, right? And it's to live out the purpose. [00:32:36] Speaker C: That God has for me, right? [00:32:38] Speaker A: But that's the crazy thing. People think just because you have money. [00:32:42] Speaker C: That life is good. [00:32:43] Speaker A: Like you said, you just have another set of problem. [00:32:46] Speaker C: And actually your problems are more amplified. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Because you have more access to things, right? So they say whatever you are, the more money you have will make you. [00:32:57] Speaker C: More of what you already are. [00:32:59] Speaker A: If you're humble, you're going to stay humble. [00:33:01] Speaker C: If you're an idiot, you're going to. [00:33:04] Speaker A: Be a bigger idiot. If you're prideful, you're going to be more prideful. If you're a drug user, you're going to be a bigger drug user and probably kill yourself. [00:33:11] Speaker B: Life was easy when I was broke, right? [00:33:14] Speaker A: So those things are just going to be amplified because you have more access to things. For me, the steps that I think. [00:33:21] Speaker C: That I took, one is started with a game plan. [00:33:25] Speaker A: One, I got sick and tired of. [00:33:26] Speaker C: Being sick and tired. [00:33:28] Speaker A: You have to get to the point where you look at yourself and you're just tired of yourself. [00:33:31] Speaker C: Like, I'm tired of my stuff. [00:33:34] Speaker A: I'm tired of my ish, as they say. You got to get to that point. [00:33:38] Speaker C: Where you're just tired, right? [00:33:40] Speaker A: You got to be tired of not. [00:33:42] Speaker C: Getting the results that you desire. And you got to understand that you've. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Been trying this for x amount of years, and you're still banging your head. [00:33:49] Speaker C: On that wall, you still falling in that ditch or that pothole. [00:33:53] Speaker A: And you got to realize that I. [00:33:54] Speaker C: Got to do something different, right? [00:33:56] Speaker A: But they say the definition of madness is doing the same thing, expecting a different result. And we do that in life so much. [00:34:04] Speaker C: So it's like, one, be sick and. [00:34:07] Speaker A: Tired of being sick and tired. [00:34:08] Speaker C: Two, create a plan. Where do you want to be? Who do you want to become? [00:34:14] Speaker A: What does your ideal life look down? [00:34:16] Speaker C: Write that down on paper. [00:34:18] Speaker A: And then what you do is you. [00:34:19] Speaker C: Reverse engineer those decisions. [00:34:22] Speaker A: So you look at the end where you want to be, and then you start reverse engineering your decisions and make every decisions with the end in mind. And then three is, you got to. [00:34:33] Speaker C: Trust the process, right? [00:34:37] Speaker A: Meaning you got to be disciplined and do those same disciplines every day, whether. [00:34:41] Speaker C: It'S eat right, work out, read your. [00:34:45] Speaker A: Word, read your bible. Seek mentoring, seek counseling. That's another thing, right? Seek mentoring, seek counseling. Even all high level athletes have a coach. [00:34:55] Speaker C: Michael Jordan had a coach and a trainer. Kobe had a coach and a trainer. [00:34:59] Speaker A: Kobe went and worked with Hakeem Alajawan. [00:35:03] Speaker C: To get better in the post. [00:35:04] Speaker A: So work with somebody who's further advanced than you in whatever space that you want to be. [00:35:09] Speaker C: Right. And then you need to focus on personal development, becoming better each and every day. As long as you put 1ft in front of the other, that's all that matters. [00:35:22] Speaker A: And if you have a setback, that's okay. [00:35:25] Speaker C: Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, get back up, and go back to work. [00:35:33] Speaker A: The definition to me, like, the measure of a man is not where he's at when everything's going well is when he gets knocked down, is he going to get back up? [00:35:41] Speaker C: And that's the beautiful thing about football. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Every player on that field at some. [00:35:46] Speaker C: Point is going to get beat for a touchdown, get blocked, get tackled for a loss, have a fumble, have an interception, have a penalty. It's going to happen. It's inevitable. That's life, right? Life is like football. [00:36:01] Speaker A: If you look at what goes on football, life is the same thing. And that's what I loved about playing sports. [00:36:06] Speaker C: It taught you and prepared you for. [00:36:08] Speaker A: How life is, right? Because you're going to get knocked over, you're going to get smacked in the. [00:36:12] Speaker C: Mouth all the time. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Are you going to get up or are you going to cower and tuck your tail and run to your mommy. [00:36:22] Speaker C: Your daddy, asking them to help, to help you out? [00:36:24] Speaker A: No, you're going to get back up. [00:36:26] Speaker C: And say, God, give me the strength. [00:36:27] Speaker A: To be better and to conquer this thing. And that's the other thing about exodus, is exiting the things that are holding you back. Every time you fail that test, you. [00:36:35] Speaker C: Are going to retake that test. [00:36:37] Speaker A: You cannot go to the next grade. [00:36:39] Speaker C: Until you pass the test. [00:36:40] Speaker A: It's like in the exam from middle school, high school, wherever, you cannot get your diploma unless you pass the test. So those tests that you are consistently. [00:36:50] Speaker C: Failing, you're not going to go to. [00:36:53] Speaker A: The next level in life. [00:36:54] Speaker C: You're not going to be able to exit until you conquer and pass that test. [00:36:58] Speaker A: So for me, those are the steps that I think you should take. Right? Again, my goal is to give you. [00:37:04] Speaker C: Actionable steps that you can implement that. [00:37:07] Speaker A: Are going to allow you to become. [00:37:09] Speaker C: A better version of yourself. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Like, I'm just not here to talk to you, just to talk to you. I'm going to give you the blueprint that would help me. [00:37:15] Speaker C: And that doesn't mean I'm where I need to be. [00:37:18] Speaker A: But thank God, I'm not where I. [00:37:19] Speaker C: Was, and I'm not who I was. Come on now. [00:37:23] Speaker A: That dude right there was a wreck. [00:37:25] Speaker C: He was a mess. He was a clown, right? [00:37:29] Speaker A: Like, I can say that to myself because I understand how far I've come. [00:37:33] Speaker C: And how much further I have to go. But I know it all started with. [00:37:37] Speaker A: Me getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. [00:37:40] Speaker C: You got to be sick and tired of being overweight. [00:37:43] Speaker A: You got to be sick and tired of watching porn. You got to be sick and tired of the situation that you're in. You got to be sick and tired. [00:37:50] Speaker C: Of never getting where you desire to be. [00:37:53] Speaker A: You got to be sick and tired of living paycheck to paycheck. You got to be sick and tired of all that stuff before you do. [00:37:58] Speaker C: Something about it, man. No matter how many times people talk to you. [00:38:02] Speaker D: Hey, you just went on the most powerful monologue I've heard in so long. And what I love about what you said, right, is write it down. It says in the Bible, habit, cook. Two, two, write the vision down and make it plain. [00:38:15] Speaker B: You hear me? [00:38:15] Speaker D: Write that mug down and make it plain. And it's so important, right? And I write all my stuff down, all my goals down that I want to achieve in life. You want to hear something absolutely crazy. [00:38:28] Speaker B: About it, I write it down and I achieve it. [00:38:33] Speaker D: I really write the vision down, and I achieve it. Why, they even say the more likely you write it down, you're about 60. [00:38:42] Speaker B: 70% more likely to achieve it. [00:38:46] Speaker D: One, because you see it all the time and you're constantly thinking about it, right? [00:38:49] Speaker B: So you write that. [00:38:53] Speaker A: I look at it every day, bro. [00:38:55] Speaker D: I love it. I love it. Right? And that's why we're able to accomplish those things. One, because we're doing the purpose of God, and two, is because we actually have actual steps, just like you said. And another thing is, when it comes to life, and I always tell my wife this, I rarely stress, because I realize that everything always happens for the good anyway. And I just told my wife, I think it was last night or the. [00:39:23] Speaker B: Night before, I was like, we always good. [00:39:26] Speaker D: Every time we think or something is. [00:39:28] Speaker B: Happening in our life, we're here. [00:39:31] Speaker D: We always make it through. We always conquer. Whatever that thing is, whether it's in our marriage, whether it's family members, whether it's outside forces work, whatever the thing might be, we always make it through. And it's hard for some people who get in that mindset of, okay, I'm in this right now, how am I going to make it through? Right? And that's when they go through a tunnel, a dark tunnel, and they can't even see the end of the light of it because they're just stuck in that mode of, okay, there's no way I could get out of this. This is where my life is, is all I'm going to be able to be because that happened to me. There's no way I could get through that. But you have to realize that all that stuff, all it is doing is. [00:40:09] Speaker B: Building a callous in you so you. [00:40:11] Speaker D: Can become better, so you can do those things, so you can conquer whatever it is. [00:40:16] Speaker B: I want everybody to realize this because. [00:40:19] Speaker D: You are here right now listening to this podcast. You are already a conqueror. You already got through something. And so whatever you think you can't get through, just do the same thing. Get through it, but take those actionable steps, especially when you have goals in your life. You want to graduate from college, you think, going to graduate from college, not. [00:40:35] Speaker B: Going to class, not studying for your. [00:40:37] Speaker D: Test, you think that's going to happen? I don't know. Not one person that has ever did that and graduated college. I don't know. You think you're going to be successful in your marriage if you don't communicate. [00:40:46] Speaker B: If you're not honest, you think you're. [00:40:49] Speaker D: Going to be successful in your marriage if you're adulter? Come on now. It just doesn't work like that. And so you always have to work on yourself and then do the necessary. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Things to get the results that you need to get. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Exactly. So as we close this episode, we've. [00:41:08] Speaker C: Talked about exiting things, right? [00:41:11] Speaker A: Whatever that thing may be for you. [00:41:13] Speaker C: Whether it be a big thing or a little thing. You know what I mean? [00:41:18] Speaker A: Whatever it is, it's holding you up from becoming who you desire to be. So you have to make a concerted. [00:41:25] Speaker C: Effort to become better intentionally. [00:41:32] Speaker A: It's not going to happen. It's not like shooting dice. You don't know what you're going to get. You can't wake up every morning and shoot dice with your life and expect. [00:41:38] Speaker C: To hit to be ahead in life, right? It's a game of averages. The better averages you play, the more. [00:41:47] Speaker A: Opportunity you have to get what you. [00:41:49] Speaker C: Desire out of life, right? [00:41:51] Speaker A: We often talk about sowing and reaping, and I know that what you sow. [00:41:55] Speaker C: Is what you going to reap, right? Good or bad. [00:41:58] Speaker A: So if you continue to stay in bondage to the things that do not. [00:42:02] Speaker C: Serve you, where do you think you will be a year from now, two years from now? [00:42:08] Speaker A: Five years from now? Because they say the choices that you made five years ago are showing up now. So your life looks like the choices you made several years ago. So anyway, in closing, we want to. [00:42:22] Speaker C: Again leave you with something to chew on, to marinate on so you can get better, right? [00:42:30] Speaker A: So we always have our closing remarks. So I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Kevon empowers and give us. [00:42:36] Speaker C: Some of those words of wisdom that only you can give us. [00:42:40] Speaker A: Only like you can give it to us. [00:42:43] Speaker D: Man, I realized that everything that happened in my life, like how you just said, right, you look at your life five years ago, and you're living exactly what you did back then. And so I think of it like this. I entered college, I believe, what, seven years ago, and I got my master's degree, right? I took those actionable steps and I was a student, I took the test, I did all those things. And then, boom, graduated with my bachelor's, graduated with my master's. But another thing that I could calculate is, I remember when I first started running, right? It was during COVID 2020. Never even really was a runner. [00:43:15] Speaker B: Didn't care too much about running, but. [00:43:17] Speaker D: I decided to start running. And I remember my first time ever running 3 miles. I remember, like it was yesterday. I ran at 3 miles. It was a five k. So, like 3.1 mile. I ran that in 33 minutes. 33 minutes and some change or something, but it ended up to being eleven minute mile, right? And I was dead tired. I was just like this, as fast as I could go, right? And I was like, hold on, I'm going to keep practicing at this thing. And so I kept running. I kept practicing. I kept researching, okay, how do I become a better runner? Okay, you have easy days, then you have really hard days, then you have those rest days. You have. And so I just kept doing. I kept doing that. And the fastest five k I ever ran. And it was about a year after. [00:44:01] Speaker B: That, I ran my fastest five k. [00:44:04] Speaker D: In 20 minutes and 33 seconds. So I went from an eleven minute. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Mile to a 635 minutes mile. [00:44:12] Speaker C: And it's because. [00:44:15] Speaker D: You feel me, it's because I realized, and when I did that, I said, okay, if I do. [00:44:23] Speaker B: These steps, anything in life, when it came to speaking, I had to reach. [00:44:29] Speaker D: Out to people, I had to build my website, I had to make merchandise. I had do all these things, video content, all these things, right? And now we're at where we're at right now to where I could do this full time and I could provide for my family. And so something how you said, write the vision down. Whatever your vision is, write that down, but also have actionable steps to everything that you do. If you want to be successful in that. Now, if you don't want to be successful, then don't do it. [00:44:51] Speaker B: So my thing is write down those actionable steps that you have to do. [00:44:56] Speaker D: In order to achieve your goal. [00:44:58] Speaker B: So whatever that thing is, write that down. [00:45:03] Speaker A: That's good, man. [00:45:04] Speaker C: That's strong. [00:45:05] Speaker A: And that's what they call sound doctrine, right? [00:45:09] Speaker C: I love it, man. [00:45:10] Speaker A: I love it. As again, always, you are empowering the world, you're empowering the listeners to this podcast. My closing remarks are going to be this. [00:45:21] Speaker C: Your history shapes your thoughts. Your thoughts shape what you do. What you do shapes how you act. So your history shapes how you think. How you think shapes what you do. What you do shapes what you get. [00:45:46] Speaker A: So if you don't like what you're. [00:45:48] Speaker C: Getting, go back to your history, reverse engineer it. Change the way that things are going so you can change the things that you do. [00:45:59] Speaker A: Well, you can change the way that you think. Then you can change the things that. [00:46:02] Speaker C: You do, and then you can change the results that you get. [00:46:05] Speaker A: So, basically, if you don't like what. [00:46:06] Speaker C: You'Re getting, start at the beginning of the process and do something else. [00:46:14] Speaker A: Put a different destination in the navigation system. If your navigation system is constantly leading. [00:46:21] Speaker C: You to the ditch, you need to reroute that thing. I'm going to say that again. [00:46:28] Speaker A: And did you hear what I just said? [00:46:29] Speaker C: As they say, I heard it. [00:46:31] Speaker A: If you do not like your destination, you need to change the route in. [00:46:34] Speaker C: The gps because the gps is only giving you what you put in. [00:46:40] Speaker A: And I would rather have it keep saying, recalculate the route. Recalculate the route. Recalculate the route so I can get. [00:46:45] Speaker C: Where I want to go versus going into a ditch because I'm impatient and don't want to recalculate the route because I think I know where I should be going again. At the end of the day, bro. [00:47:02] Speaker A: You'Re going to die looking like the. [00:47:03] Speaker C: Choices that you make, make better choices, have a better life. It's all up to you, fam. It's all up to me. I had to make better choices. I had to be smarter. I had to quit making the same mistakes, getting the same results. Don't work. It don't work. It does not work. [00:47:29] Speaker B: Come on, now. [00:47:30] Speaker A: That's all, man. That's all. And with that said, man, tell them how they can follow you, your social media pages and anything that you got. [00:47:39] Speaker B: Coming up, man, I was just looking. [00:47:42] Speaker C: At you right now. [00:47:43] Speaker B: We kind of look alike. [00:47:46] Speaker D: I don't know if all black people. I'm just trying to say we all look alike. We don't. But I feel like you could be like my dad or. Let me stop playing. Find me on social media. Kevon empowers. That's Facebook, that's Twitter. I'm not on Twitter, but that's Instagram. That's YouTube. You can find me there. If you want to go to my website, it's kevonley.com. You'll see everything there. If you want to book your boy? Go to kevonley.com. I'll be my boy. Exactly. I'll be at your organization. [00:48:15] Speaker A: You won't be disappointed. [00:48:16] Speaker D: Fire them up. You don't got to look no further. Matter of fact, book both of us. We'll come down there and we'll tag team that thing. [00:48:22] Speaker A: I'll be like the hype man. When you book them, I just be coming know. [00:48:25] Speaker C: Saying the words behind do better. [00:48:28] Speaker B: Yeah, nah, he deep too. Don't let him fool you. [00:48:34] Speaker A: I appreciate you, man. Love you. You know I'm saying it's a beautiful thing, the alignment that God has allowed. [00:48:39] Speaker C: To come into our lives. [00:48:41] Speaker A: Just off of one meeting at an airport in Dallas, Texas, heading to a conference called the next level Speakers Academy. [00:48:48] Speaker C: Shout out to Jeremy inky et coach. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Crump, CJ, the whole next level fam. Hey, it's all because of that. Know that we are rocking together and you can find me on carltonyung.com. That again is Ww dot carltonyoung.com. [00:49:10] Speaker C: You can find me at Im 80 20 nation. You know what I'm saying? [00:49:14] Speaker A: 80 20 lifestyle. Remember, 80% of what you eat, 20% of exercise is going to lead you to a healthy, active lifestyle, and 20% of what you do is going to. [00:49:24] Speaker C: Give you 80% of what you get. If you don't like what you're getting, change what you're giving. [00:49:31] Speaker A: Hey, this is the elevator mindset podcast. This is episode four. Stay tuned for episode five, where we continue to explore and build on these foundations to make you a better man, to help you become a kingdom man. [00:49:44] Speaker C: Help you to become the God version. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Of yourself, not the best version of yourself, because that best version might be less than what God wants you to have. You need to get and have everything. [00:49:54] Speaker C: God wants you to have. And we are gone. [00:49:58] Speaker B: Peace out. [00:49:59] Speaker D: Peace out.