Speaker B argues you should ignore external advice and follow your inner drive instead. When you're truly passionate, work feels like joy. He overcame lack of money, racism, and no mentors by keeping a burning passion and a Plan B to stay active.
The best advice I ever give is never listen to any advice.
So wrap up on this. I always ask what if you were able to go back 20 years to the person you were and have a conversation with them like today, what piece of advice would you give to that person in terms of how to be successful in 2026?
Wow. Best advice I ever give is never listen to any advice. However, when you know in your heart of hearts and you're passionate about something, never digress from that. Because when you have a passion for something, nothing is hard work. It's not even work. You just love what you do. And then when people see your passion, they relate to it and they want some of it, and they can relate, and they want to be around you because you love what you do. So what I would say is, if I could go back and speak to me as a child, with all the passions and how determined I was, and I got deterred, whether it was not having the money at the time, or whether I was in a situation where, uh, it was racism that was involved, or whether I didn't have a mentor, and I blamed other people that I couldn't do it. If I go back, it would be that thing that burns in your, in your belly that you love to do, never stop doing it. I have a plan B, but that will keep you action when you think about your why and your happiness as a man or a woman, that's what gets you there, in my opinion.
