In this energetic YouTube monologue, speaker Rico Sharp introduces and promotes two newly released books available on Amazon: Bringing Out the Best in You and its companion workbook/journal. He frames the first book as a chronicle of his own radical transformation—from drug addiction, homelessness, and 19 incarcerations to becoming a pastor, international speaker, and founder of the Student Lives Matter and Teacher Lives Matter movements. The book is positioned as a guide to personal, professional, and interpersonal development, emphasizing leadership, identity renewal, and the elimination of self‑limiting beliefs. The second book is described as a day‑by‑day workbook that provides a concrete, step‑by‑step process for readers to uncover, manifest, and deploy their inner greatness. Sharp repeatedly urges viewers to purchase the books on Amazon, noting a limited‑time free Kindle edition, upcoming book signings in Frankfurt, Germany and Miami, Florida, and the global distribution of the titles. He also announces a November 7th event at the Kier Center, co‑hosted with the Orlando Magic, called Student Lives Matter Magic Night, aimed at ending school gun violence. Throughout, Sharp interweaves personal testimony, motivational language, and multiple calls to action, positioning his books and events as tools for audience members to achieve similar transformation.
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Hey, God bless you. I'm Rico Sharp. I hope you're enjoying this time with your family and your friends, your loved ones, and that you're in good health and in a stable mind, and that you're able to focus on what matters most. Listen, I gotta tell you something. I'm excited. I'm excited. I am very, very, very, very excited. You say, well, what are you so excited about? Well, I'm excited. Since you asked, I'm excited about my books, my brand new books. They're out, they're out, they're on Amazon. And you can go to Amazon and you can order my books. What is— what are these books about? Okay, this book is called Bringing Out the Best in You, and this is a chronicle that really highlights my journey Not just my journey, not just the things that I had to learn how to reverse in my life and go through a stage of metamorphosis and transformation, but the journey where I started out at, right? The journey where I was a drug addict, drug dealer, homeless criminal, incarcerated 19 times, spent years of my life in prison. And while in prison, I decided there's something better on the inside. I can't spend the rest of my life like this. I suffered from an identity crisis. And so I decided to look inside and to discover what was on the inside of me as a gift, a talent, a purpose. I had to look up and discover the plan of God for my life. And as a result of discovering what I had on the inside, I came out with an all-new identity. I focused personally, and then I started developing myself personally. I focused professionally, and I started developing myself professionally. And then I focused interpersonally, and I developed myself interpersonally. So this book deals with personal development, professional empowerment, and interpersonal endowment. Now listen, because that's just the beginning. So this book is about leadership, and it helps you to understand what it means to operate in the full capacity of leadership so that you can extrapolate the greatness on the inside of you And convey that to the relationships that you're engaged in. When you focus on bringing out the best in you, you're talking about bringing out your strength. You're talking about operating in your capacity. You're talking about doing things that are on a whole new level in life, right? Like you're not struggling no more with your identity. You're not struggling anymore with your past. You're not struggling anymore with a lack of self-forgiveness. You're not struggling anymore with trying to define who you are. You're not struggling anymore with anything. Like right now, you're just flowing in you. You're operating in you, and you're doing what you know you can do because you can do all things. There, there are no limitations. And so this book helps you to uncover the greatness in you, and then it brings you to a place where you can realize That this is just the beginning. Like, it's, it's a book. Your, your story has a happy ending to it, and all you got to do is just turn the page and get to a whole nother part, because all things work together for your good. So my greatest frustration in life over the years have been knowing that I have so much more to offer, but not knowing how to bring that out, not knowing how to engage, not knowing how to extrapolate, not knowing how to manifest. Not knowing how to actually put forth what I have on the inside. You know, the good book says that a good man from the good treasure of his heart, a good woman from the good treasure of her heart, bring forth good things. Can I tell you something? You have greatness on your life. You have goodness on the inside of you. And now you just got to break past the frustration to being able to manifest that and bring it out of you. And this book right here will help you to do just that, bringing out the best in you. But it doesn't stop there. Guess what, ladies and gentlemen? Here's another one. Here's another one. Total separate book, total separate message, total separate process. As this book right here helped you to discover your greatness, as this book right here helped you to Discover Your Capacity. This book helps you to process it. Can I say to you that there is a process to your greatness? There's a process to being able to uncover what you discover. This book helps you to discover it, but this book helps you to uncover. With this book, you'll discover your greatness. But with this book, you will uncover and deploy your greatness. So this is a workbook. I call this book the companion guide to bringing out the best in you. This is like a journal and a workbook married and merged together. And what this book does is that this book right here gives you a day-by-day, step-by-step process as to how to actually manifest and materialize the greatness, the strength, the power, the authenticity, everything that you have on the inside of you that makes you uniquely you. This book right here helps you to bring that out. I'm telling you right now, I need you to go to Amazon. You need you to go to Amazon and just type in Rico Sharp, and automatically the books are going to populate. These books right here are going around the world. Next month they're going to be delivered and presented at a book signing in Germany, Frankfurt, Germany. And these books right here will become internationally dispersed, and I want you to be able to get your hands on them before they spread out around the world. In November, they're gonna be delivered at a book signing in Miami, Florida. But I want you to be able to get your hands on them first. I'm already getting text messages and phone calls from people around the country who said, I've already ordered your books. And I want you, especially those of you who live in Florida, I want you to get your hands on them. I want you to be able to transform your life. Can you do it? Yes, you can. Is it hard? Yes. But this right here, these books right here, They help to take away the complexities from the process, and it gives you an intro perspective focus on how to look within. Can I tell you that your answer to your greatness is not on the outside, it's on the inside? And everything that you need to be able to process that is in these books. Here's the scripture that I love to quote: Be confident Of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you shall perform it. You have greatness in your life. If Rico Sharp can come from cocaine addiction, alcohol addiction, marijuana addiction, living as a criminal, homeless, in and out of prison, in prison 3 times, incarcerated 19 times, facing pretty much a life sentence, if I can turn my life around, and now become an international speaker and now become somebody who is influencing people around the world, if I can turn my life around and start a movement called Student Lives Matter and Teacher Lives Matter and create curriculums for schools, if I could turn my life around and become a pastor, if I could turn my life around and mentor professional athletes, if I can bring out the best in me And live the life I'm living now, surely you can do it too. Is it hard? Yes, but we're going to do it hard. Is it going to be challenging? Yes, but we're going to fight through the challenges. Is it going to be something that is going to require some time? Yes, but we got the time on the clock that we need to get the job done that we have to do. And these books right here are going to assist and accompany you in that process. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I am so excited. Just like opening the box. Of my new shoes from Sharp Brand Shoes. Listen, if I can do these things, then what can't you do? What can't you do? There's so much that you can do— businesses and books and songs and poems and movies. So many ideas that you have on the inside of you. It's right there on the inside. It's just waiting to be discovered. We're here. I'm here with you to help bring out the best in You. And one other thing I want to tell you about, I have a wonderful event scheduled for Friday, November the 7th at the Kier Center where the Orlando Magic plays. I am merging together with the Orlando Magic to sponsor an event called Student Lives Matter Magic Night. We're standing up against gun violence on school campuses. And I want you to be there as my honoree. I want you to be my guest of honor to come and help me to make a difference in our society in America and put an end to gun violence. I can't do it by myself, but together we can prevent school shootings and we can save lives. I'm yours truly, Rico Sharp. I bid you Godspeed, and I want to see you blessed. Thank you, Rico. Go on Amazon right now and just look up Rico Sharp and you will find both of these books. And for a limited time, I have the Kindle for free for your download. Yes, the Kindle, absolutely free. That's the digital book. You can have it for a limited time, no cost at all. That's how much I love you, baby. I got you here. We're gonna bring out the best and we're gonna do this thing together.
