How 2 Chainz’s Manager Retired at Age 29 to Transform From 300lbs to Ironman | DailyVee 383

the inspiration pretty damn filling down three words you're gonna die which other hip-hop artists or true entrepreneur like in this digital era uh I think the guy to pay attention to is a guy by the name of CEO Charlie my name is Charlie jab Lee and Gary has been an amazing friend of mine for many years I see it online but to see it in person just makes me so [ __ ] happy like if you ever watched one of those movies where like there's like oh wise man like Oracle you know but like he doesn't always like make himself available but you can like live through his teachings and you feel like you know him I would always listen to everything he would say and it really sat with me there was this one thing he said one day you're gonna die and you should do something about it and I didn't know exactly what that meant until I felt like I was actually gonna die I always had this one dream of being an athlete and growing up like I love basketball but I was the chubby kid playing sports wasn't exactly like the right fit for me in life it seemed like I was overweight and I was very insecure about it and when you're insecure about things sometimes you mask it and you cover it up with something you can be good at you gotta have something that's you and I was like I'm a CEO Charlie's like Junaid I'm CEO Charlie and at that early I got a very what I truly wanted to be and I did business and I got good at it and as the business grew you know like I got up over three hundred and four pounds and you know with all this amazing things that were happening in my life I was never as I'm unhappy I was very depressed look how bad I look this for this whole my name is Charlie Jabba Lee and I've been overweight my whole life my addiction to food just beats me down i binge eat until i get sick and i do that so i'll never want to be in jena again but it's just a downward spiral I don't want to be in a depression anymore health is the most important thing to business because you're looking at a guy who had all the business you know he could ever want but with my health not being in order it meant nothing one of my best friends and then it's got cameras he saw something in me and he's he knew that I had been dieting my whole life and he said you know we're gonna run we're not gonna we're not going to a diet anymore and we ran three marathons and you know people don't believe me when I say this I gained weight I gained 30 pounds through the marathon process and at it seems it seems kind of hard to believe but those one of those situations where you just keep trying but you keep messing up at the same exact time but you're super ambitious but when you mess up it just earned us all the ambition and I felt stuck I was just askin like what else to do I'm doing everything and ran three marathons and gained weight and I thought I was at rock bottom and then things got it things not work I knew something was wrong but I didn't know what was wrong and one day I woke up and willing to start this food and this is when he was doing this davon sands flutter their whole game yeah like I wake like we are the top of your business game and it never a sad never wake up Amos spinning I'm like oh this isn't good and then I got out of bed wait to pick up the shoes pass out window dr. brain tumor wraparound left optic nerve coronary artery because started corroding the top of my spinal cord at that point is like when you gave me like my secret sword to go slay my

dragon like I'm like imma change everything this is the Sun nation I've changed everything it was scary because I knew something was really wrong and I felt like I was about to die and a brain tumor the brain tumor had grown and it was wrapped around my left optic nerve my coronary artery and said it could start corroding the top of my spinal cord the levels of like the hormones and everything that my brain tumor puts off we're at like ten thousand times what they should have been and so I went on a journey and that's when that's one like that voice of Gary was kind of in my head like he said like one day you're gonna die you know you got to do something about it and the social pressures were strong you know but I knew something drastic had to change and the social pressures are like you're supposed to have this much money your bank account you know you're supposed to have nice cars they're supposed to you know do all these things that relate to business and money but at this point none of that made any made any it didn't matter to me anymore so I just heard a voice I was like go on a journey I'm left I left my company I left in the city of Atlanta I left everything because I wanted to start a whole new life where I could do it right this time and I became the exact opposite of every single thing I was and I was this workaholic working 100 hour work weeks and I just wasn't a happy person I was depressed and anti-social and now you know I've lost 125 pounds training for Ironman in March in New Zealand and I'm reversing my brain tumor and a vegan and I live in California and I'm chasing my dream and Wow it just feels amazing to chase my dream and I know you know my story might be the opposite of most people's because most people you don't want to chase their dream of success but the same rules I believe apply that you know if something's not right and you're stuck and then you feel like it's if you felt like how I did like I felt stuck I felt depressed I felt like there were no answers and I would just look on social media and everybody seemed to be so perfect I want you to know that you know we're all not perfect we're all going through something it's just none of us show our vulnerability and I want to let you know that if you're stuck that you know there is somebody like you who felt stuck and couldn't figure it out and we look out into the world and see that it just seemed like everybody had it figured out but that's the message that I want to give because I've seen both sides of the spectrum of the business chasing my dream in the help chasing my dream and I want you to know that you know there is a community of people who will help you if you jump in this room pool you can't just put your toe in like what you gotta jump and when you jump you've got to learn really really fast or you're gonna die and when I jumped in I realized that when I was struggling there were so many people there to help me like I was scared to make that big jump but then once I realized that all these amazing people jumped in and helped me that means I could try again