Ash ExantusChief Financial Educator, Ash Cash Enterprises · Financial Empowerment Leader | Public Affairs Strategist | Media Executive | Advocate for Economic Equity & Financial Literacy | Champion for Formerly Incarcerated Communities

Part 1 of 2: These 5 things are keeping you from maximizing your potential. 🗣️

9 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube video, speaker Ash Exantus delivers a concise, high‑energy monologue that lists five habits he claims keep people stuck in poverty. He frames the advice sarcastically, saying “if you want to stay poor, keep doing these things.” The first habit is taking on debt to buy luxury items like designer bags, which he says traps you in a cycle of repayment. The second is refusing to learn new skills, arguing that staying within your comfort zone prevents higher earnings. The third is surrounding yourself with negative or broke people, which reinforces a poor mindset. The fourth and fifth points (not fully captured in the excerpt) likely continue the theme of self‑sabotaging behaviors. Throughout, the speaker uses a conversational, motivational tone, urging listeners to break these patterns to unlock financial potential.

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Hey, hey, what's up, y'all? Listen, a lot of y'all saying y'all chasing the bag, but a lot of y'all doing activities that is keeping you poor. So here are the 5 things if you want— if you like being poor, here are the 5 things you need to keep doing to be poor. Number 1, take out debt and buy things, right? You want to get the Birkin bag, you want to look fresh, you want to get the designer. Well, keep taking out debt in order for you to get the designer. Number 2, don't learn a new skill. Right? Just stay there. You know what you know. And so just say, you know what, I know it already. I could go to YouTube, I could do whatever, right? Do not learn a new skill, because if you learn a new skill, then you will learn how to make more money. But if you want to stay poor, then don't learn a new skill. Number 3, keep hanging around negative people. Why? Because if you hang around with negative people and broke people, you will continue to attract who you are by hanging around who you are around. So, keep hanging around negative people. Number 4,