ADVICE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM BOYS LATIN

yo it's Gary ve you're an Ask Gary V Show with Adam Brawn what's your name you got to be kidding me man not joking yo my name is CJ Reynolds I teach in West Philadelphia born and raised I you know on playground that's where I love it CJ how are you um I'm doing great man I'm sitting here watching your feed and I'm waiting for the next question to be done so I could know if they were going to call well guess what you won kids are coming in the room to ask me for something real quick give me 10 seconds I'll be right with you um so here's my question I have students um that I teach from my Philadelphia teach at all boy school and we're talking like Inner City Philadelphia and um you know I'm going to show them this feed and what I would love to show them is you giving them some advice as to what to do after high school if they don't want to go to college um because coming from me it's like yeah you're the teacher you're the teach over and over again I'm a teacher I teach N I teach nth grade literature I actually um I hit you up on Twitter a while ago when you were looking for oh schools to come I actually y yep do we have one right I going back with Al go ahead okay so what could you speak to my students to kind of give them something to you know that they're not just hearing me but they're they know who you are we watch your videos in class um they keep asking me like they're like uh you know like so like I I'm always giving them your information and telling them what I think you would say but I would love for you to speak to them directly if you could I could now like give me help me a little bit here because the truth is let's start from the top so a lot of my guys have been literally punched in the mouth many times in their lives and so it's about like helping them to see that there's kind of more to themselves or that there's they have more to offer than um you know they' kind of been beaten down already and some guys seem a little bit uh do they have the chip on their shoulder that somebody owes them something because it was [ __ ] up or do they have no self-esteem because everybody told them they can't win both you know it's a both thing so when we're talking about boys so it's all boy school where you know 90% of my guys don't have a dad at home which literally it makes my job easier because you know you're a guy that shows up every day and tells kids that you love them and that you see them and that they're not invisible hey R can I ask you a question if I paid for the bus like I know schools are [ __ ] up so they can't take advantage but if I paid for the bus can you bring like eight or nine of them up here and hang with me for an hour let's take eight or nine of them do some [ __ ] contest Reynolds do whatever the [ __ ] you got to do to get pick eight or nine of them bring them up here we'll jam with them we'll film that and then you can use it one 2 3 4 but here's what I wanted was guys that I identified as being someone that like I think could hear what this guy has to talk about and also that like could use the talk also right and I'm not saying like your life is all beat down and like it's tough for you right but like I know some dude stories and like I've talked to guys like Kev and Nate and stuff and like everyone's got all of you have something different going on but I just think is the chance of a lifetime Reynolds I can't wait to [ __ ] see you better get your ass here soon The Season's almost over best man I'll see you soon I'll see you next week let's figure it out see you we're on our way up now we're leaving we already on our way here we go New York City all right we made it to New York Tyler is coming to get us now and then we'll go to bner Media day time is

we're thrilled to be here man thanks so much for even having us like that was uh you [ __ ] hacked me bro so well you know anything I can do for these dudes is you know I I'll try it anyway so and we were laughing that like when I got the call-in show I was like flubbing my words my kids were asking me for drinks and like my dog was coming in the room and I'm like just trying to ask this question and so you had like I had said on the call in like uh I need like 10 seconds and um and I was talking to my son and you thought you and I was like no this is trying to work this out but yeah man I'm going to Gra see cool well listen I'm super glad you guys are here I uh I really hit it off with your teacher Professor here I mean like really I couldn't wait for this day to happen so I'm really happy you're here listen I'll be honest like I I can give you guys a little context I don't do you guys have any idea who I am or anything about me yes okay great so to be real honest I'd love to maximize our time together answer [ __ ] for you maybe I'll talk a little bit just to create some framework right but to me i' love to just answer any questions you guys might have or things of that nature here's my perspective my big thing you know what caught my attention about you were talking about which is I'm fascinated by the game of opportunity right like I think when you get into these conversations like who's got opportunity who's born who wins the lottery of being born into a trust fund who doesn't you know who go grows up in a bad neighborhood who grows up there's people that live in the in the Amazon like there's so there's a lot going on with the 7. 7 billion people on Earth to me the game of opportunity is what's super fascinating and I think the internet just [ __ ] everything up in the best way possible like there's just so much more opportunity than there ever was for the people that don't have the opportunity and to me that's like [ __ ] that's something you need to really wrap your head around and I say that to people that have everything handed to them and people that have nothing handed to them it's kind of agnostic now where it gets real interesting for me with you guys and I'm making presumptions based on the five minutes we got to talk but what's really interesting to me is that I grew up an immigrant I didn't have much but and I was I grew up in a different time than you guys are growing up where school was the only way out like the only way you could be successful like when I was your age the only thing I'd ever heard is the only way you could be successful is if you go to Harvard and get a good job and this and that there was no talk of Entrepreneurship hustle flipping [ __ ] making [ __ ] at nothing zero conversation and there was definitely no internet so for me what's really crazy is I think the people that have the advantage now have the chip on their shoulder have the flip mentality have the you know quick score the salesmanship the stuff that I associate more with not the Upper East Side and I don't think people understand that really understand that the DNA of the hustle and the grind and the flip is actually about to win way more now than the kids that think they're going to go buy the books and go through the system and that should be the greatest [ __ ] thing you've ever heard in your life if you actually believe me so that's like my energy that's why I wanted to have this like if I can get one of you [ __ ] kids to actually believe me then this is Roi positive for me then I'll get some good email from you in like 15 years and be like yo that was a good trip I'm really glad you said that it changed my mindset that's really what I'm trying to get out of here and I wish I think you guys know something about me you don't know me I don't know you right I wish you knew how much I believe that how much I could give a [ __ ] to inspire some kids I'm being really serious with you I'm not checking a box to feel good about myself or do the right thing I just believe it and I think it'll be Roi positive for me because I actually think one of you is going to hear me go do [ __ ] and then want to do [ __ ] with me in 10 years and do business together so I just really want to make sure I set the stage for this conversation I'm not checking any boxes here other than being selfish because I actually believe in what I'm saying believe you guys actually have the advantage that you don't realize and just think that's going to manifest and it's going to work out for me in 15 or 20 years that's my truth so and I think that's powerful right like when I think about that I'm like that's way cooler than like I want to be a nice guy and help some school like I like what the

nobody wants pandering right who you don't want pandering like the number one thing in life that I fought my whole life was handouts or like I TR I went into my dad's family liquor store business when I knew I could have done bigger things just to make sure I never had it over my head that he did good by me I needed to check that box and be even with him so I'm visceral to like anybody doing anything for me the only thing I want to do for you here is to wake you the [ __ ] up of how much Advantage you have against the market because you got one of these then you're in the game if you don't that's different if you don't have a smartphone then I then I get quiet but if you do you're in the game in a real way you know you guys know this there's [ __ ] kids [ __ ] flipping sneakers on Instagram making more money than half the [ __ ] people that work for me in this company but are you willing to wake up at 4:30 in the morning and be online for 2 hours you know what to do we know it just people aren't willing to work it's a binary game but it's real it's so real it's crazy you know I was on uh I was on Breakfast Club and uh Envy called me out you see that yeah you guys saw it did you see the part where M's like okay cool stop motivating give me something real and I made and I was like go to the dollar store and buy [ __ ] and sell it on eBay like that whole thing it turned into this whole thing I started this video called the 2017 flip challenge I'm getting the craziest [ __ ] emails like just people that are like I'm on welfare I make $5 an hour like and now I'm going to Marshals and making $1,000 a week just real I just think people aren't willing to work I think it's much more fun to be mad at the system my employees love me they love blaming me they're like it's [ __ ] up because I'm like no here's what's actually happening and I'm like uh you know we uh we fired 60 people cuz I felt the company was getting fat and slow and so I fired 60 people one guy that night came up to me and he's like you said we fired people because you know we're fat and slow and not working hard enough like [ __ ] you like I have good relationships with my you can see my vibe right they feel comfortable saying [ __ ] like that to me literally he was like [ __ ] you like me and my team we're working [ __ ] 13 hours a day I said I know I said the reason you're working 13 hours a day is cuz you guys aren't getting rid of the eight people on your team that suck [ __ ] cuz you're friends with them so you know like that's just the truth right so like to me here's the truth in your situation you can make a lot of money and live whatever [ __ ] life you want as long as you got this because this is so ridiculously powerful and nobody gives a [ __ ] who you are on this you don't have to impress anyone you have grades do nothing I think that's powerful and like whether that means you want to story tell be in fashion stuff like there's just no excuse anymore and I think it's liberating once you actually believe in it when you realize that nobody gets to decide your [ __ ] gets real fun you know because I'm empathetic like I'm empathetic man like I get it like I don't really get it cuz you got to live it to really get it but I'm pretty close for the way I look and I get it and it's just real it's powerful so I just think there's [ __ ] to be done and what's really interesting is all my friends you know I was a real bad student I went to a college called Mount Ida College where 94% 96% of the kids were African-American or Latino that's where I probably got my permission to have a little swag right and so that's what I spent my four years on right and so like I met kids I have friends I my sweet mate is in jail in Newark for the rest of his life for double murder like I've I slept with my wallet like it was pretty [ __ ] up where I went to college and when I like I when I think about what those my friends the kids that were in my wedding the opportunities they had cuz they looked your part compared to what you have it's [ __ ] crazy it's crazy that's it some dude emailed me at $11 when he heard the NV 11 he's making $1,000 a month now Marshall's and TJ Maxx he just listened to me downloaded the Amazon App instead of playing Madden four hours a day he goes to TJ Maxx and Marshall and he scans every [ __ ] product and with the first 11 first $11 he bought some sort of shirt that was $4 cost and he sold it for 17 on eBay and he built the whole thing it's crazy just real and they SC out with an app yeah download the Amazon App you scan stuff

you see what it costs right I mean look actually [ __ ] you're here tell them this tell them who you are and what you're doing here um well I actually met Gary through the 2017 challenge um I was my family came from Russia like his parents did um I was born and raised in Brooklyn High School drop out I came I came from Russia too yeah I was Bor pop when I was 12 years old high school dropout wasted my 20s pretty much just chilling and doing nothing productive uh 5 years ago I got into the Amazon game just hustling and flipping and you know playing those long hours 14 15 hour days um I had less than $11 when I started I was $100,000 in debt hold the IRS money just most friends my girlfriend K me out of the house uh 5 years doing Amazon I grossed uh $14 million in sales last year it's called Retail Arbitrage right there there's a lot of different business models that you can do one of them is Retail Arbitrage where you just go into stores and scan what they have in the store see what it's selling for on Amazon and eBay and there might be a little profit you might be buying something for 10 and someone's selling it on Amazon or on eBay for 20 and there might be three four bucks left in it profit for you and you just scale that out you go from one item to two to five to 10 to 20 then also this for yourself you get lucky right luck plays into you go to a dollar store they got some weird thing by accident acent you buy it for a dollar it's going for $11 all of a sudden you can buy 40 of them you can add up yeah but it sounds easy and it sounds sex oh it's hard important thing is the hustle you know like he said this guy with 11 bucks was waking up at 400 a. m. you got to go TJ Max buy something take it home post it get it on Amazon or Ebay ship it for $4 people like [ __ ] that right that's what people [ __ ] that without realizing that once you get your game tight you're doing at scale yeah you can do at scale you also start getting an eye right like I just even look at the jacket you're wearing I'm like okay this kid get like he should be going to thrift stores using his eye buying [ __ ] for two bucks and then marketing it on Etsy for 29 as [ __ ] you know fashion yeah my average profit on an item is probably four five bucks but you start out what did you start with oh in terms of what kind of start yeah so you 5 years ago like what's the first [ __ ] thing you did um my boy owned a salon a B Salon he was doing uh Amazon with uh like beauty products that he was getting through his uh beauty salon um he gave me a job I went to work for him I was taking the catalogs of different wholesale suppliers that he was working with and just doing the Arbitrage seeing what they're selling for from the wholesalers on Amazon and just picking out the 1% of items that make you know four bucks five bucks and you add that to your list and you go from you know one sale a day to two sales a day to five sales a day we probably be doing over a thousand sales a day right now and you know it's peanuts four five bucks an item but when you do it on scale it adds up and I was able to build a awesome business I saw something on your social like at first you packed it in your house then you had it in your backyard now you have a warehouse when I started we rented a little two-bedroom house that was probably the size of this conference room and we were just working out of that room just me and my boy buying stuff packing stuff shipping stuff to Amazon all day long 12 14 15 hours a day and just scale that just kept going let me ask you yeah because we've been one of the things we were talking about on the way up here is um have a YouTube channel I've been need something good I have YouTube channel and I started uh dming people and seeing like because I've heard you talk about this before like seeing what you can do for others and so I start started sliding into the DM over place so uh so I figur if I can get in the Viner media you know who else can I get in with so um so I started sending all these DMS out and True Value Hardware Store gets back to me I said I'll wait I'll make you five free videos it's me and my students and we have a carpentry after school program that um I just want to show you like this is what we're doing with your product like you're where we buy all of our supplies from and you know let me try and do something for you and so they emailed me back and said yeah we want to try and do a partnership with you and I have a phone call set up for tomorrow that have to do with that and so what that means to these guys is uh some of them like these guys do music uh Elijah's in the fashion and so obviously um so like trying to sort of like build a brand and then start dming people or uh one of the other things we've been talking about is how you're always saying how to kind of like Chronicle what you're doing like um like recording the journey because how amazing would

that look if like Eminem had started when he was 12 and was writing Rhymes and then like all that footage existed now it would be unbelievable to watch that kind of thing so the answer is yes right like yes to all the [ __ ] you just said yeah like told you guys listen to me all the time because you just regit hated my [ __ ] listen I yeah I mean look I think they should DM every single music producer in the world that they want to [ __ ] with and say look we're starting out I'll come and [ __ ] CLE Prince was a janitor you remember when I said that I believe in that [ __ ] so much [ __ ] Prince wanted it so bad he [ __ ] cleaned up [ __ ] in exchange for studio time and then he was good enough they may get Metro boomman to like let him clean up his [ __ ] and that's where they are and they may not be good enough so they would lose but it would give them a chance but you can't do what every kid does which is hit up these big- time producers and be like yo my shit's fire listen to my [ __ ] they get that $50,000 a day you need to give people [ __ ] you know what you have time like every person's got something and what you definitely have at this age is you have time that's your asset your time and what you do with it is what you've got and so if you want to get into music game I would hit up every single person in the game DM them dming on Instagram is Unstoppable it is the move DM 20 30 people a day until you get banned for a couple hours you start again later right and and you just hit up people and be like you could inter turn for the biggest fashion brand of all time this summer you just have to ask 500 of them and only one's going to say kind of it's a numbers game you know can I ask you a question of course you so you talk a lot about um self-awareness and knowing yourself what does that mean for young people that have had a hard life or deal with a lot of different things that kind of kids shouldn't deal with at this AG so I know self-awareness in like knowing yourself but how do like what are your thoughts when you're trying to figure out yourself and you have to kind of deal with the baggage in your life like you know I never hear you talk about counseling or anything like that so I'm just wondering like kind of your thoughts on more about self-awareness for these guys I'm interested in look I think people that are growing up in the best environments of all time are struggling with self-awareness at 13 and 14 sure I mean 90% 98% of my company here in their 30s and 40s and 20s have no clue on self-awareness so here what I would say that I'm a big fan of just eating reality I'm just a fan of it you know like the reality was I was never like my dad I had my dad but I didn't cuz he worked every hour I never saw him missed every game missed every just didn't see him worked every hour that was my real now I was happy it was way better than leaving or dying or you know it was great but like I didn't have them I could have done what my other friends who have workaholic parents do and dwell like my dad's not in my baseball game or you don't look I am not going to Short change the extremities of all the things you know all the cliches parents drugs murder SE mental health like all the things the thing that I have not figured out is how to get the universe to give a [ __ ] so to answer your question it's amazing to see people in good situations and bad situations go through a situation and do this like if I could give everybody a drug it would be optimism right like if you're willing to look at all your [ __ ] whatever it is every and by the way everybody thinks their [ __ ] is the [ __ ] right like everybody's like everyone like I've had people sit in this room one by one with me say if my dad didn't give me $100 million I would have never been a loser cuz it all came too easy to everybody thinks their shit's the [ __ ] cuz it's their life right people that don't have parents and things they laugh at that they're like [ __ ] you but that person thinks that's the [ __ ] so it's about you know I don't know the reason I don't talk about a lot of things I don't know how to recommend you know counseling or how to build self-awareness or mental health I try to stay away from things that I don't know because I think that would be detrimental to the things I do know what I will say is you know self-aware so I don't know how to teach

self- awareness I just know it's the most game once you know who you are it's it manifests into self-esteem you don't actually then give a [ __ ] what you know you sit here and just don't give a [ __ ] what they say or any girl say like you just don't care it's crazy when you get there that's like the [ __ ] ultimate you're just [ __ ] living life like in The Matrix you're just like running through [ __ ] to actually not give up especially at this age that's what happened to me I still think about it how the [ __ ] did I not give a [ __ ] right because it's like when you're like 13 14 15 like your friend that's your whole life I just remember not caring and I just I was just on some different [ __ ] in my head so that's what I want for everybody because then you're [ __ ] set how do you get there I don't know man that's why I don't talk about it right like I just honestly I swear to God if I knew how to get there this whole thing would be a rap i' own the Jets I'd own the world if I knew how to like get there and get people there right I try to get there by talking about it and maybe somebody's like oh [ __ ] that's kind of like me too let me go deeper into that I actually do feel like that I actually don't give a [ __ ] when I like I don't know but God it's big cuz then peer pressure is out then you're just not getting dragged into anything you don't want to be doing can I ask a question that kind of goes yeah please so Nate I'm going to call you out a little bit on this so um what do you do or like when you're talking to someone and trying to figure out what passion is and I know you talk a lot about what your passion is how you spend your time right so in speaking to our guys and they're like I don't know what I want to do or you know I'm not really into anything kind of what is your advice listen I get that [ __ ] I wrote my first book was called how to cash in on your passion which [ __ ] me up because then everybody kept emailing me like what's my passion like I don't [ __ ] know you like I don't know like I have no idea the biggest thing you realize is a lot of people don't know or never find it or you know my belief is the only answer for any of them right for you for anybody is you got to figure out how to try [ __ ] like that's the like you just never know what your favorite food was until you triy if you only had chicken you might have not known that hot dogs were the best so that's what I love about the internet these kids have so much option to like watch [ __ ] on YouTube and like my only answer to n or anybody like is just like try [ __ ] and so like that's back to opportunity easy to try [ __ ] when you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank and parents that take you to [ __ ] you got to hack the game right like that's what's passionate for me about this today this is me letting them try [ __ ] hear it a different way something could happen who knows maybe not I'm willing to go 0 for nine but you try so like that to me that's why I love the DM thing right like you don't think 21 Savage is hitting you back but he might crazy [ __ ] happens people decide no for a try you've just decided no because the system tells you no you've been pound you've been sold no and by the way not just you the [ __ ] world not tough situation the world everybody's saying no I just say yes and then if it's a no I don't give a [ __ ] you going to judge me that I lost I don't give a [ __ ] what you think and that's why I get so into that because then you're not scared to try [ __ ] because when you don't give a [ __ ] what anybody says about you failing you love failing I love losing it is crazy because say that all the time and it literally it is crazy that you say that and I about it all the time because with him and YouTube and it's like we partner on this you know like I hate being on camera and that's like not my thing so he does that and I do a lot of like Social Media stuff and um and things like that in partnering with him but you're thinking about distribution it bums me when something doesn't work and we it's going to be great and the idea of loving the failure that always I love getting punched in the mouth I love it I love it what is it about the failure that love that you love or D you it makes me want to stick it to everybody who judged me when they judged my fail and that is true I like that part well that's it I like it no I actually love it you just kind of like it I don't think I understand it yet we have haven't scored that big I mean this is I get it like to me it's um yeah it's like it's a chip on the shoulder I loved being an underdog I loved being like from Russia and not speaking English and like being small like somewhere around third grade I'm like [ __ ] I'm not going to be as good at sports as these other kids are getting real [ __ ] tall like you know just like you know like I just love and I still love it and it's really funny now that I've made it in my little

space like I want to do other [ __ ] cuz I don't want to like as soon as I won the wine game I left cuz I don't want to be the top dog I don't want people trying to get me I want to try to get them you know I love the grind I love you like that that's tough that's tough it's real [ __ ] too because it's like when you hit the top it's like it's nowhere else to go it's like everybody is right at your neck but when you always reaching for the top then it's there Carson gr and I got to tell you man and I'm telling you my friend this is the operating system of the universe this is the only thing that matters the attention on this is the game and like that just and every like you could make an Instagram account like go ahead like this one kid I'm watching on musically went from zero to a hero in four minutes five videos problem that we have like promoting our stuff uh like on Instagram everyone is like trying to promote and stuff so like we're not getting Hur because of that so how do you avoid that you don't avoid it you start doing different [ __ ] you're doing what everybody else is doing let's put up a post he listened to me and hit up DMD this hardware store and now something good happened you know what I would do if I were you I would hit up everybody who's making funny videos and offer them free music y That's that was my idea it's great man just definitely what I was thinking guys you need exposure if you get some booty girl to like twerk behind your music it could happen like you just need people to hear it right if you got somebody like DeQuan or somebody like with a funny account who just uses your beat or uses your song as the background music to the clip they're trying to put on but you have to give here's the thing that I back to losing that I understood when I was low nobody High gave a [ __ ] so I wasn't going to people that were high and said do something for me I was going to people that were high and saying this is what I'm going to do for you and that's why I try to get people into the nobody gives a [ __ ] about your problems mentality cuz then you don't roll up on people asking or thinking that nobody's going to put you on just cuz they're cuz they needed a beat for their [ __ ] you just gave them one that's crazy what else are you guys into like what else is in your world like what else you thinking about like me personally please like since me coming into high school I develop so many times like construct Contracting I used to do like sneaker things like design art so I'm like I really don't know like what direction to go because I have like so many talents but it's just like so many capabilities so I'm just like right now just living just to see what's going on like I'm doing opportunities like I be trying to do sneakers trying to get clothing when I started try to do a whole lot of stuff but it's just like are you enjoying it uh actually like what I really enjoy like I'm a mentor like helping people yeah so that's what I'm really trying to get into but like right now I really don't know my Direction so I'm just maybe that's the direction a lot of times I think the doing is the direction right like the reason I asked you if you're happy is if it's going good like if you're happy there's almost nothing to say right like I think you know I think taste when I hear that was just what I said earlier right like try [ __ ] like if you're mentoring and sneakers and trying to St like you're doing [ __ ] if you're actually doing it to me the thing is I know a kid friend of mine he's like who's had a similar thing and I was like cool and I like asked one more question I realized he was doing it like for 45 minutes a day but he had crazy Ambitions how many hours a day 15 yeah you know like that's the only way now you got school and you got some other [ __ ] you got to take care of but there's a lot of time can I add something to what you said please you just went through living it so if you don't fail on your next 5 10 15 to 10 out whatever you're not going to get to that next step to find what you love so if you're just sitting and thinking about what am I going to do what am I good at what's my passion to never actually do something you'll get nowhere but if you say let me try this I love the sneaker thing on it good you'll be done with it and you'll go on to the next and if you look at the one thing I noticed and I'm sure you guys will agree from anyone who's successful in anything whether it's a business guy like Gary or a artist or anyone of any anybody who's successful the one thing they all have in common is they failed 99% of the time before they have a hit song good business before or or they just worked right like I would tell you straight up I didn't fail a whole lot other than school cuz I knew that's what I was not going to do it's just that people don't realize that LeBron

[ __ ] took 4,000 shots in a day in fourth grade you know like like what do you think they're doing like listen you guys know this is what I saw at M ID I was like [ __ ] man some of these kids are athletic freaks but then they were just smoking blunts all day I was like oh that's why didn't they make now I understand they weren't waking up at 5:30 in the morning running [ __ ] hitting the gym and then shooting for 9 hours a day all my like two 50% of the kids in my Suite 301 they're like I'm going to be a rapper like they didn't write all day they never tried to get into Studio like they didn't do [ __ ] they talked [ __ ] got to do can do is do nothing pondering complaining dreaming it's one and the same if you're dreaming or if you're complaining it's the same [ __ ] means you're just not doing [ __ ] one of the things I love that you um often talk about is I well not often I think I've heard it like one or two times um is you know people do look at the famous people whether it's a celebrity or a sports person or a musician and um they kind of hate on them like oh it was easier or oh it was this or that they make excuses and kind of hating on these people but like talent's real too like Serendipity happens like Lil yachty wasn't doing all that much work wrote a couple songs in Arkansas State and it went happens it's not the norm but you know I listen life is talent and work ethic nothing else you can work 19 hours a day on Beats if you're not good enough nothing Good's going to happen that's just real which is why it's important to try and taste [ __ ] because you might be the greatest [ __ ] cook of all time you might it's crazy it it's really [ __ ] with me and it like I'm trying to figure it out myself I don't have every I'm not Yoda you know like I'm just trying to figure it out too but like it's there man and the internet makes it crazy like you probably wouldn't watch 700 videos of cooking you know back in the day because whatever played on cable right but now you could right like video games I'm trying to think back to my days at the I like there was some kids there that could literally become professional video game players that's now real people getting paid Millions to play video games there's so much opportunity because of the internet um can I ask question of course my man like who do you look up to like are you like Mentor or yeah I mean I was weird with that I was super in you know back to not giving a [ __ ] it also manifested the other way I didn't look at anybody you know I looked up to my parents you know they came to America they had $100 lived in a studio apartment with eight family members and queens you know and I just watched them grind in my face every day we bought nothing I went on one family vacation my whole life right we bought nothing you know Kmart and Bradley's and like for clothes like you know that's what we did my whole life like my dad then eventually had a little liquor store literally I wore liquor t-shirts to school every day of my life like you know so I look up to them you know how hard they brought it and like they built the foundation right I was lucky to have parents like that so um but I never looked up like I want to be like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or I know I want to be me that's my best like I suck [ __ ] at so much stuff my man like suck but I go so hard at what I'm good at and I'm going to win the whole thing because of it you know what was the spark like the spark I watched your um video you said you live every day like it's your last or like you're not coming back so what was the spark that made you like realize that I'm grateful I'm driven by gratitude and I wish everybody was like do you know how ridiculously crazy it is that you're a human being 400 trillion to one you're more likely to win the lotto nine times in your life than actually having a life I don't I honestly to be very black and white on this I don't know how we can't be thankful you could have been a tree I just look at everything positive I get a phone call right now my mom died I'd be dead like like I would right but then like very quickly I'd be like I'm so grateful that I had her and all this time we had you know what I mean like I just I don't have it I'm optimistic I'm grateful like and and I try to impose that on

people who have it more than me and who have less than me because it's the same game it just you're going to choose how to look at life and I think it's chemicals that make you say [ __ ] my dad left me when I was four I'm in a bad neighborhood my brother got killed like or like but I just meet kids who have the same [ __ ] every day and like I look I said I got to take the family on my back and I'm GNA do this and I'm gonna make it to the league and that's you know like it's just binary either you decide it's [ __ ] or you decide it's your advantage what I know for facts this is facts because of this and Instagram and Snapchat and YouTube people that have chips on their shoulder that come from [ __ ] have the advantage cuz the work ethic and the hunger is now the biggest factor and who's going to win and people like my kids who have everything are soft I think that's it I just I don't think my kids want to work in a room half the size of this for 16 hours a day because they have a house in the Hamptons they're just soft so it's crazy how you'd never believe I don't even say it because I don't think you'd believe it and then you think I'm saying it for some [ __ ] so I don't say it but I'm going to say it anyway I look and I'm like these kids have the advantage they don't get it I know they don't think it and I'll never say it out loud because the world would say [ __ ] you you're an idiot how could you say that I get it I don't give a [ __ ] I know I'm right and when you believe you know and when you actually believe that [ __ ] can get so C if you actually believed it and I by the way I genuinely believe if I had 900 kids walk through look just like you like one two would actually three would actually believe it not want to believe it cuz they think I'm right not believe it because most people will not believe it like actually believe it they'll win that's thing about teaching G CU like you see that in kids right so like everyone in this room got picked for a reason right I have 400 some very angry students at school that we were leaving to like yo I check that dude out how come you're not taking me Reynolds oh is that right oh pissed yeah like sad walking um and so like you just as a teacher often you see like the great stuff in kids and then to have them like not see the same thing like they're my man you know this cuz they go outside of your room and the rest of the world's telling them [ __ ] you yeah and they believe the rest of the world but that's why they have like Champions like you how many of these kids like you now have built relationships and that they now see in themselves what you saw on them four years ago or 2 years ago or two years ago yeah like I did terrible in his class nth grade year I just barely passed it and like this year and as close as we gotten and like some of the words wisdom he given me and N about music and stuff like that they just stick with me forever I think opportunities like this you have no choice but to really believe it in yourself and not just believe it because you think somebody's right I'm here like I'm in New York you know what I'm saying me with somebody who's very important and successful and doesn't care about what other people think and you see stuff like that and you get those opportunities you have no choice but to believe that stuff like because you got to understand what happened to get you to this point it's cool man it's [ __ ] real opport it's just experiences an opportunity what's real cool for me guys is that back 20 years ago 25 like everybody in this circumstance wanted to be an athlete or a rapper everybody and now that entrepreneurship is getting cool it's huge cuz it's super hard to win in those games you have to actually win the whole thing like you got to go all the way there like you know the 18,000 best basketball player on earth works at UPS the 18,000 best entrepreneur owns UPS and that's why I'm going all in that's why I'm sitting here right now I want to give back to the game you know you that gets you there this entrepreneur thing I got D's and Fs I promise you straight up I was the worst student than everybody in this room I was just non-existent student like when you said barely passed I was laughing cuz I was like I actually passed nothing they just pushed me through cuz I was in public school and they're just like get them the [ __ ] out of here right M out of college I was playing plan not going to college I was just going to work in the liquor store and build it up pay back my parents my

mom's like [ __ ] you you're going to college I'm like [ __ ] I'm like how the [ __ ] am I going to college I'm like I'm ranked 270 out of 273 in my class right I got a 1. 4 grade point average and I can't put two sentences together right I get a postcard in the mail from Mount Ida College I fill out my name and address and send it and I get a thing back like you're in that's where I went to college but what's crazy about that is through self-awareness through recognizing the world was changing through knowing what who and what I was the only reason I was so bad was I was milking that time because that was my last vacation I was milking high school and college people always ask me like you know when I talk they're like what did you major in I'm like Madden you know like you know so I just that's why self-awareness is cool like you know when you really know yourself like how much money do you like it's crazy to me how much money I leave on the table because I love the game or I'd rather spend the hour doing this than once you know yourself and i' I've been doing this my whole life not after I made it I was paying myself $3,000 a year building a big business because I didn't need stuff the money is not driving me the game a kid saying coming to see some I was laughing when he just said coming to New York and meeting a very important person like me important this is funny ass [ __ ] you know like you know like it's that's cool making an impact right that's what you guys are trading on that impact is crazy what I figured out is [ __ ] I can have both right I'm building an empire and making an impact because of the way it's all worked out and now I'm getting greedy now I'm penetrating hip-hop and sports so that I can get my message out at scale to you guys cuz I'm going to use Kyle and logic you know and those guys to get you know Kyle I sure do Kyle's right in that office the other day wow so let me ask you about self awareness real quick because I think one of the things I'm always talking about how like relationships are King in the classroom like over content all the time and relationships are The Game of Life yeah and so like you should go shake the hand of every business owner in your neighborhood it would change your life one weekend why because if they're running a business that's not out of business they know something mhm they're doing something productive and I'm again making assumptions based on what you told me if it's in tough neighborhood inet they're grinding you know yeah they got stories they got scars so when and by the way they would appreciate it like when you're hustling you got you're the corner b you got a barber shop you just got you get a young kid come through and just say I just want to shake your hand congrats on this business makes I'm proud of you like they'll just be happy like and then they may want to do something for you karma is practical doing the right thing is always the right thing that's why gratitude we talk of course cuz if he rolls in and just shakes some guy's hand and that guy's like that's memorable and he lives a couple blocks away and then something happens and then like for some reason Calvin kleene is the boss of like sh that's how [ __ ] Works putting your that's how the world works that's why and it's just a it's a nice thing to do I just think those business owners would appreciate it and you never know when that may stumble into something next time you know you do it person's caught off guard cuz it's weird like who the [ __ ] does that right so they don't even really react you leave but then a week later you're walking by with your boys like hey they grab you and they're like tell me about yourself you're like we love to do music they're like my cousin owns a studio you want some free time off of thank you that's why I gotta make sure my students like me all the time too so when they pop when they put you on yeah uh so when did you realize that self- awareness was important because I think that's something I talk about in class A Lot the importance of that and I think it scares people the idea that like you're going to admit that like there are things that I'm not good at and when I got when I got into the business world and started spending a lot of time very closely with people and then would let hear them talk and go oh [ __ ] like they're wrong about themselves I didn't know I had it I didn't even know if I knew the word but it became like delusional or somebody who I would like H somebody who's a hypocrite drives me crazy it scares the [ __ ] I it's I'm visceral to it so which is why like when I say [ __ ] like when you call in my show and I'm like

you're coming I laugh because I always think the other person always thinks like is this really going to happen you know totally it's been 10 minutes they have not like what's going on so like to me like everybody's so used to people letting them down and this and that so anyway when did I first learn it when I would like got to really know people in business in life as a kid in college it didn't mean anything to me that was like life but when I got into business and people like I can do that I'm like no what you think you what like it started getting weird to me that people are so confused about what they were good at and what they were bad at because now I was in the zone of me just doing me and I just like I just I stay in my Lane like real [ __ ] tight like I know what I am wish I was we all wish we were something so that's when it started becoming so when everyone's lying to themselves about who they are how do you really start figuring out who you are then like you as a person yeah so for these guys I think these guys are like you know I hear 90% of the dudes I talk to either want to be a rapper or a football player and it's like are you on the football team n no not this year I'm going to go out next year and it's like but like I don't know how understand how you're going to be the greatest when you're doing anything look my move and you know this cuz you watch my content I don't know if you have the air cover to do this move the only thing that I've ever seen work is when he says no not this I'm going out next year I'm like you're [ __ ] full of [ __ ] you [ __ ] suck no I can do that good by the way that's the only thing that works is suffocating people put them on full blast hell yeah that's what we're here for all right so you know how you know um you boast about having all this technology and everything so you saying now won't have to do things that you know people's parents might have to do like deal drugs or like go out there in the street and do whatever cuz we got so much of this we can make more money doing you know flipping simple stuff and just you know going out and earning it so like um so you could just take any steps like it's going to take like maybe a 100 times but you'll probably get it sooner or later my belief is that if you're a great drug dealer you'd be a great businessman I just believe that because it's the same game you're selling you're working it like listen that's the only friends I had were drug dealers like like if you're good at that I'm saying you know there's a lot of drug dealers that suck at it right like right want to talk about you're not so good like listen I made like all the kids that I really hung on to in friendships I'm like look at my man moose he's breaking down these bags into nickels because he's making more money that way and he's chining he's actually making $3 bags but he realizes that everybody at the school doesn't know the [ __ ] difference does care he's smart and then I would see other people who like buy like an ounce and like [ __ ] smoke 34s of it in 4 minutes and then like be bad at flipping in I was like he's a [ __ ] loser so if you're good at it or if somebody's he's if somebody's good at it they'd be even better at flipping sneakers or gear or going to the thrift store and flipping because it's the same [ __ ] move and then when you have the freedom of being not scared to get caught now you're [ __ ] moving fast because when you're selling drugs you got to think about that extra dimension of getting caught but when you're selling [ __ ] t-shirts now you're a [ __ ] entrepreneur and everybody thinks you know like people putting you on a pedestal so yes I believe that I love him I believe it cuz it's true cuz it's [ __ ] true because the kids that I knew that sold drugs for real and were real good at had it have gone on to be much more successful in the world than the ones that did it like it's just a hustle it's you've got people skills you see angles that's the same [ __ ] that's like [ __ ] this thrift store keeps getting their [ __ ] merchandise and they put it out at 9:30 in the morning I'm going to go there because there might be some Nikes but it's just hard work but I think every like when you realize how much more money you can make how much like much good can happen from hard work everybody's willing to put in the if I Pro if I was a real genie or a real [ __ ] Yoda and I was like yo check this out watch this and you saw you you're like [ __ ] what the [ __ ] and you saw you and it's like a good life and I'm like here's all you got to do you got to work 15 hours a day right now for the next 10 years straight you'll do it everybody will do it people don't do it because they're not sure what's on the other side of it cuz they said no before they said yes so the question I have how did you avoid the CH but like not like doing what your friends did and anything I had

good parenting that's the truth my mom instilled so much self-esteem in me I thought I was Superman that's the truth the best now whether my mom did that or it was my natural chemicals or like I predicted the future I just thought it was the best and once you think you're the best you don't give a who the [ __ ] are you to say that I'm whack or you know like I'm stupid or I'm a nerd I don't give a [ __ ] I'll see you at the Finish Line partner you know like that was my mentality like I'm real glad that high school is going to be the highlight of your [ __ ] life like you better really really enjoy these 48 months cuz you're going to [ __ ] suck in life that's how I thought I was competitive about it if anybody came at me what's crazy is what's really interesting is nobody really came at like like when somebody's when you're nice and you're not bothering anybody and you're just in your own [ __ ] and you're nice not even though you're quiet but you're like in your own ship you're nice like you know you're nice to everybody like nobody's going to be real mad at you that I didn't drink I didn't like people would like make a joke here and there but they didn't have real juice behind it you know nobody really bothered me you know but listen I have empathy like listen I have no idea where you guys are from but I have some friends from some [ __ ] up places where it wasn't that easy like when you were 12 and 13 you were getting recruited to do some [ __ ] and it was wasn't as easy to just be like I'm doing my own thing so I listen I'm always careful when I don't know the Back stories or every detail so I could do it I wasn't recruited to do some [ __ ] crazy [ __ ] you know if you're lucky enough to not being recruited by local gangs to do [ __ ] well then you have no excuses because my big thing is like you're either going to Define yourself for yourself or you're going to let somebody else Define you your mom Define you your dad Define you your grandparents Define you your older brother your older sister dude from around the way you know you're somebody's GNA Define you or you're going to Define yourself I'm just trying to figure out how to hack at you to make you define yourself for yourself in yourself within yourself and then [ __ ] changes I got a question yeah my man how do you keep that motivation to keep grinding and working hard and doing those have no choice there's no choice but when you have multiple things cuz I'm trying to cuz I don't think I'm anything yet man if I told you what was in my head you would not believe me in terms of greatness we're talking about or like yeah like I'm not you know I'm not naive I know I've made a lot of money I'm starting to make an impact but like I don't read my own press clippings I wasn't joking when I was laughing when you said important person like I mean it that wasn't for show that's just what goes through my body I believe it like my ambition is as great as it gets I think I can go down all time if I can stay alive and like I cuz I know I want to do good and be great like great I can do both I'm weird the reason I can be good for people is I'm so good at my craft I can put 80% of my energy against it and achieve more than everybody else which like leaves me so much room to do other [ __ ] which will do you know what I want do you and you've heard this I think do you know what I really am doing here I'm trying to sucker one of you to come to my funeral I saw you a sign outside that's my jamama man if I said something here that [ __ ] triggered a different chemical in your brain and you went on to have a great life and I think I'm going to be pretty damn Famous by the time I die and you hear I'm dead you might be like I should probably go to that man's funeral he changed my life you take your kid and tell him the story that's cool my grandkids get to see you Flute from you know Texas to come to my funeral in New York and telling stories of how I Chang your life that's the greatest Legacy of all time and there's only one way to do that you got to give what's up my man I said I missed a prom like I was supposed to go like somebody PR or what well like my girlfriend at the time thank God it said at the time otherwise he wouldn't be yeah I know I made the right decisions so thanks my man of course I'm glad you're here she hates you now one less person at your funeral I'll get to her hey before we wrap up can you talk about real fast with these guys about you know you talk a lot about not being number one like it's not always about being number one it's you know can it be about being you know I think you need to I think you should strive to be number one and be realistic if you're number 14,000 like you got to try sure but it's not a bad thing to not be number one no and I think you know what's funny I think I threw that in there when I talked earlier about being the 18,000

best entrepreneur it's you know it's yeah I think that's right I and I think where you're going and I'm I'm I believe in this which is too many people trying to be number one and then if not they want to be zero like it's like this all or nothing game it's just a false game it's not practical it's not real life so listen I'm really glad you guys came through we can do this again you know everybody's got their own Styles a lot of people some people ask questions other people are a little more quiet you can hit me up on DM just make sure you start it because you only see the first couple words make sure you start that you're part of this crew I know that not everybody wants to share their [ __ ] out loud but I'm thrilled to bring anybody in this room value can I I realized you're trying to get out guys off Tyler in I have a selfish question because I didn't talk um if I'm trying to build my YouTube channel I'm so I'm doing I'm trying to do every single thing that I hear you saying there's only one answer collaborations all right that's what I'm doing all right that's it all right hit up just like everybody else every single YouTube celebrity that lives in Philadelphia should hear from you have them come through the school go do trick shots in the [ __ ] Courtyard with them whatever it takes siphon audience from them you're now going to put this video up it's going to have my name in it my name getss searched on YouTube trillions of times in The Eternity one of the right people looks at it from four years from now and Away you go true yeah we got this um I like to give people pictures of my own face sometimes when I so um all the guys I love this and just to say thanks I appreciate it like oh man good luck to you yeah of course my man I'll do better than that you know what look come with me in my office I'll let them sign up I'll sign you guys all a book