S1 E29 - What is Your Calling?

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I already know your answer.

I know you do.

But I want to know why.

Yeah.

Why do you want to become a billionaire?

There's gonna be a lot of reasons. I think reason number one, I don't think anyone would have guessed that would become a billionaire if you would have asked me when I was like seven. Right. And it's gonna be a really, really cool story at the end when we get to go all the way back and just go. All those random obstacles. How'd you overcome them? Let's talk through it. Let's talk about why you overcame them. Very, very similar to this. So you and I are on our journey. We're not there yet. You're going to beat, you're going to beat me by like nine years, probably.

You think?

Yeah, because you're cool with me in every way.

I mean, I wasn't going to say.

It, but when we have our party, I'll be at yours and you'll be at mine.

Deal.

And it'll be a good time.

Will your party be better than mine?

That one it will be.

You will have already tasted my party.

So I'm going to know what to do and what kind of cake to. And to not get. So, yeah, it's going to be good. But the reason I honestly want to be a billionaire is because I view it as I'm gonna help a billion people.

Yeah.

That's the only metric. That's the only way I'm gonna achieve that. So if I can find a billion people to help or the opportunity to help a billion people either now and, or later, then I know that status will get hit. And it's just a, it's just a number. There's a lot of people that will reach a billion views before they become a, you know, a billionaire. I don't necessarily care about the title. I definitely know that it's achievable. I've seen the compounding interest. I know how quickly things can grow. One really, really good investment is all it's going to take. That's it. Just one strong investment.

It's not going to be investment with me.

Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. And it's going to be one strong investment. That'll be it. And I don't know what it's going to be yet. I don't know if it's going to be a stock. I don't know if it'll be a privately held company or some type of venture that we do, but it'll happen. And I already know how I'm gonna celebrate. I already know who I'm gonna give the money to, which charity, which organization. Right. I'm a big March of Dimes fan because my niece Gabrielle was born premature, you know, and my nephew Donovan was born premature. And so there's. I've seen so many very close family members that have to go through that. And it's an amazing technology when they take care of premature babies.

Yeah. Explain what March of Dimes does for those who don't know.

Yeah. So March of Dimes specifically helps, and they donate and have causes and medical supplies and medical infrastructures and teams that help premature children.

That's awesome.

Stay alive.

More or less. My niece was born at 24 weeks, so it's amazing. Yeah, 24 weeks. About halfway through, for those of you who don't know.

Yeah.

That is really less than one pound. And she is here.

Incredible.

She's amazing. She's a huge inspiration for me. I remember looking at her in the incubator and promising her if she would live, she'd have an awesome life.

That's amazing.

With Aunt Tawanda.

Yes. Yes, yes, yes. But that's. I think that's incredible because that particular organization, I mean, they. They do so much for.

It's just so much for so many people. I mean, because I've read so many history books.

Yeah.

You know, a lot of people ask me what religion I am right now. A lot of times I'll say, I'm a historian in the sense of just. I love history. So religion and history, there's so much that is combined. There's a book called Progress. When I got it, I thought it was like, a book about progress, like, how to become better. Keep progressing. You're doing awesome. And it was a book about history and how we have progressed through the centuries through, like, sanitation. But childcare and childbirth was one of them. And the statistics. Brittany, would shock you, but 120. Fine. 140 years ago, we didn't even know what germs were. Wow. We had no idea. 140 years ago. So a doctor would go and, like, help someone with something and then come and deliver your child as well without washing their hands. 140 years ago. So we're talking very recently.

Ew.

You know, extremely recently. So in the Civil War. Chop your Leg off with the saw and then take that saw and cut down the tree and then cut up their chicken. And all the same, they wouldn't clean it, wash anything. They didn't know germs existed.

That's nuts.

Crazy reason I'm bringing that up is because both the mom and the child, I mean you have like a 30% chance of living, 30% chance of living up until like 1930.

Golly.

So we're talking a long time. There's a lot.

Risky business.

It's a very risky business to be a woman and. Or a child.

You were both at one point, which is kind of wild.

So double prizes.

You win both of those. And the reason I'm bringing all that up is because I think it's incredible that we have that technology these days. And I can see all that impact and all that growth and shout outs to J.K. rowling for becoming a billionaire and then losing that status because she gave so much money away. But she's going to make all that money back if she hasn't already or gotten close to it, because that's just the way it works, you know, so.

So I have a crazy idea in this same vein and it's a new idea, so it may not be fully developed, but I'm gonna try to get it out.

Okay.

So I was thinking and praying the other day because at one point in my life, being the youngest self made female billionaire in the world was important. It was an important title. I don't know why it was so important. I think it was just.

Not like I've done much for titles, but man looks at the outside, God looks at the hearts and it's a nice door opener.

Yeah.

But I was thinking about the impact Gandhi made, for example. He had a mission and he was so dedicated to it and he was so strong in it that everything he needed came to him at the perfect time. And I'm watching as my faith increases in my life, as I've overcome all these obstacles, how I'm swapping stress, worry and anxiety for faith and trust, knowing that if I stick to what I know I'm supposed to do and I speak about it with confidence and I walk in confidence, things are coming my way, literally. You are an example of that. Some people call it manifesting whatever, but I don't want to get weird with words. I'm just like, I needed someone to teach stocks on my G Force calls and you were already in my life, but I didn't know what place you were in. And then I asked you and you jumped right into it. So it's just an example of this new thing I'm on. It's always been important to me to be able to be a billionaire. Dah, dah, dah. But now I'm almost saying, I'm almost.

Just more dedicated to saying humbly, with or without any title, how much good can I orchestrate in my lifetime? So with or without any credit, what can I do to tip off all these amazing things happening to where there's a ripple effect of incredible things? And that's really why I even started GeForce too. It's how do we empower other people? Through education.

Sure.

Through resources, through network. And so that's why we're doing this. It's maybe there's a piece of our story and we don't have to be billionaires to do that. So as much as we encourage you to have the resources that the funds to be able to do what you want to do with your life and to create that kind of impact, like you can still free nations, you can inspire billions and it really doesn't cost you that money. You don't have to be the one to have it. It could be someone else's money. So I want you to lean into that trust and lean into the way in which you need to be guided to get in your journey. Just because we both plan to be billionaires and think we will be, I mean we don't see why we wouldn't be. It doesn't actually always require that to have the impact you want to see. So no, yeah, I had that just come up and I was like, are you more tied to the title and the cool sound of being the billionaire or are you more tied to orchestrating the good? And this was a self question because I think that title was important.

Yeah.

And then Kylie Jenner got it at 21 and I was like, duh, I only had 42 to beat. But then she lost it. So yeah, I'm back in the running, people.

Back in the running.

But it's not about the title anymore. Now that my heart has shifted to where it's. Even if I never get the credit. I'm not going to hide though. No, I'm not going to hide because my life can be an example of what's possible. But anyway, I agree with you thought.

I love that thought. I think it's, it's a really good self reflection that you took the time to go, wait a minute, what's really, what's really important on that? Because for me I Want to be famous. And I've held that back for a long time because I wasn't supposed to be right. Subconsciously, in my religion, everything is like, you're not supposed to be anyone. Only God is phenomenal. He's the only person in your life that you should ever even talk about. And it was, you are not supposed to be anyone.

Great.

But I want to be famous for a lot of different reasons, one of them absolutely being if you can have a platform like the Rock, who is literally almost like nominated as president from the people, people are like, yeah, we'll make you president.

I would make him president.

I would too. I'll vote for him right now. I think he's a great person, but he has a platform and he has the ability to literally influence people. And I know that if I have that exact same platform, I'm going to be able to give such great impact and touch, good influence and really good ideas. And I'll be able to hang out with people like yourself and other humans in these circles that can share these ideas, that can vibe and we can give to the tribes and give to the educations and give to the communities and give to the people. And we can start some mini movements and some shifts and some impacts immediately. Because if you don't have the money, but you have fame.

Or you have an influence like Seth Godin, book Tribe. Great book, great book.

That's a good book.

And just having those people that trust in you and believe in you, you can make things absolutely shift for you and your in your direction.

Absolutely.

So speaking of shifting, we talked about this off podcast, but I'd love to know your thoughts. You challenged me to something this weekend, which I will do. You said go up to because I'll have a family reunion Fourth of July, every weekend we get down at Red Bone, Georgia, Deep, Deep south. The Deep south for South Georgia. And there going to be a lot of, you know, young, my nieces, cousins there. And you're going to ask, you told me to ask them, who are someone that you look up to. One of the reasons I made you do this podcast, like Push you asked you once, I asked you one time and you're like, yep, I'm going to do it. I asked you once. I forced you. The reason I forced you with one single question was I want you to be a voice for these girls and for these young ladies and for these women. I really want you to. So why? What would it take? Because we were on a boat yesterday with a beautiful young lady who's A ballerina. And I was asking her, hey, you should do a podcast about ballerinas for ballerinas. And then boom, nine fears came up immediately. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I can't do this. No one knows me. Too many other podcasts out there like that. No one's gonna listen. And I don't have a good voice for radio.

Wow.

Did you hear these conversations or.

No, I did a drive by.

Okay, drive by. Got it.

I heard the beginning of the conversation.

It was just very like, I can't, I can't, I can't.

I'm scared.

I can't, can't, can't, can't, can't, you know? And ladies, we need more of you.

So who can they look up to right now, in your opinion? Like, who are some women leaders that you look up to?

Well, I'll tell you the answer I've heard so far from others.

Okay.

And it's sad because there hasn't been as easy of answers for even me to answer that question. But I've asked little girls, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, who do you have to look up to? And they say, Nicki Minaj.

That's it.

Beyonce, if you're lucky.

Okay.

You've got Cardi B. You've got all these people. And I'm not saying anything negative about them as human beings.

Nope. But they are musicians.

They're musicians. Which is one track.

That's one track.

That's one track. The other thing is, it's using sex to open the door. Using sex cells as your. I don't want to say anything. You know what? I'm just going to say it. So I went to a concert a couple years ago, and I in love with this artist. I think she's amazing. Oh, my gosh. She's such a strong, confident voice for women. And for some reason, when a woman sees another person, another woman being confident, like, you're confident. It's a weird thing. I don't know how it works. It's annoying. But whatever. It's where we're at. And this person who shall remain nameless.

I loved. I mean, when I'm down, I put her music on and I'm like, I'm back up. We're here. And so I was so amped.

The roof has been raised.

It was a birthday present from the guy I was dating and went to this concert, nerded out, dressed up. It was super fun. And I'm sitting there. She came on stage. Mega powerful, powerful, powerful. Everything is Amazing, amazing, amazing. And then I guess it was during a wardrobe change, there was a video came on and it was frigging weird. First of all, it was like bees and like it looked like a horror movie, you know, it had like the flash of the flies and the this and this and this. And then it showed her naked, duct taped to a chair. And then the woman who I love and have always respected came on and she told there's tens of thousands of people in this audience. We're in a stadium, the Titan stadium. And she said, your power as a woman is equal to your ability to be able to seduce.

No.

But yeah, you're probably blown away because.

You'Re like, no, I just started crying because all these little girls, these eight year old girls in the audience are screaming and cheering and listening to that message and, and it's not true.

No.

I grew up being told that my value as a woman came from being a great mother and wife. And I do think that's the greatest calling in the world because you're raising literally the next generation of the world. I mean, it's one of the highest callings, but it's not my only freaking calling.

No.

And I would sit there around, I mean, I went to marriage counseling one time before getting married to somebody and I looked at my hands as the counselor was telling me, if you're going to be a godly woman, he said, your job is to be in the kitchen. He actually told me that. And I looked at my hands as somebody who, you know.

Has built a business to be able to help people. Yeah, I was a millionaire. Yeah, I've built all these cool things. I've done, done a lot of stuff, I've won a lot of awards. None of that matters. But for you to box my future based on a gender. I didn't pick, I didn't frickin pick this. And I'm looking at my hands knowing that God made me for more than just being in a kitchen. Again, not cursing that, but you have to freaking want that to be your calling because you're a worthy child of God regardless of your color, your, your gender, you're any of that stuff. You're a worthy, beautiful child of God and your calling is between you and him, not anyone else. And so I want you to challenge your own thinking and I want you to challenge what you stand for. Here comes because I am fit, I.

Have here comes people.

I have a good body, I have all the works you could use to get more followers. But I want to prove women are More than just hot to get in the door. We're smart, we're capable, we're trustworthy, we're excellent. We're great at follow up. We can manage a lot of things. Like, there's so many things, and it comes down to the individual. Some women suck at all that stuff. It just depends. So know who you are, know whose you are, and trust your calling is between you and your maker. No human can ever predict the future for real and tell you what you can be. So that was an interesting cage of lies that's always been in my subconscious because it was tied to not being godly.

Oh, man, that is powerful. That's good. Ladies, ladies. Yeah. Follow her. Okay. I'm just. You are a force for good. And it's gonna happen. The more. More women, especially more young women, need to be on this platform. They need to learn how to use their voice. They need to learn how to use the brain and just put out phenomenal content for incredible people. And that's exactly what we're gonna do in the next episode as well, is continue to provide more content, more information, more insights on how we all, as a human society and race, race, can go from broke to woke. I'll see you guys there.

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