A speaker raised by a single mother in a community where people sold goods from car trunks reflects on how that environment shaped his view of business as hustle. He realized his mother had no wealth vision, so he built one himself, then turned that into teaching others to make money.
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So I watched her climb out of that, you know, single mom, teenage mom, you know, growing up where we grew up and we didn't have a car till I was like 10 or 11 and public transportation, you know what I mean? It was just watching her get out of that, I think. I mean, that's the only thing that I can tie to, but my mom doesn't really have a big vision of like, I want to make a bunch of money and I want to be an entrepreneur. I don't have that in my family at all. I did grow up though, like in a culture where it was pretty normal to hustle for stuff. Yep. You know, to see people selling CDs out of the trunk of a car was normal where I'm at, you know what I mean? Like, people are always hustling, selling plenty of illegal stuff too. But there was always a little bit of a hustle culture always around me. And I feel like once I learned this business was really just hustling, honestly, for me, you know, and then it evolved into certainly more of helping people and teaching others how to make money. And but I'm a big— I mean, everything I say is ultimately a hustle with terms of doing more in activity and dials, you know