Tell me about your vision. Oh my god
Wow, so
My vision and what I put in what God put inside my heart is to be
I'm gonna make this public boys. It'll be huge to be on the Forbes top ten list of black diggers
Right and the vision is that I have is I don't know how it's gonna take place
I know it's gonna happen
Right. So I do on a couple different I do business coaching grow companies
Fractional the CEO we have a team of that
Right. We have we do mental health still
We work for parents and teams we work with sports people sports kids who's playing sports how to get the mindset grades life coaching
And how to create their own brand based on what they are have so if they're basketball players have their own jerseys
And to show them how to do a business now, it's local
If they blow up and I got to go to Nike and get paid pennies
They can get paid billions of dollars because now it's their own brand now
They started when they were small they started when they were young but thinking like a business person
I believe when you're 16, you should get your driver's license and your business license
And think like an entrepreneur
Of course go to school do whatever that you have to do and then if sports does not play well for you, guess what happened?
You still got a business and you still got your education absolutely, right?
Because now you have a fallback friend. There's not there's only
There's gonna be very few Michael Jordans. Dr. J's Larry Bird's right, but here goes
But you can be a Michael Jordan inside locally still not but know how to run a business when you go to college
Then you get your degree and have to work for a jail be now now you can do both
Right. We do digital marketing. We do PR media. We do literally everything
we do PR media we do literally every aspect for a business because
What when I found out in my is career, right? So I used to sit them off the other people. Well when they do bad
They don't go to me anymore. Yeah, that's it. Oh, no, no, no, no, no
Let's get vendors that I worked with that. I know that I appreciate
Yeah, and that's that place. I'm out there of two books with a book on parenting
And I want to also book on life's a garden what seeds of that your planet?
Coming up with the new book in January is gonna be a pre sale probably about the next week or so
Until January the third the reason why I picked January the third if my parents was alive. It would have been 78 years
for the anniversary
They did they made it to 67 years
My god, they loved each other. Oh my god. It was just like, you know people just stay together
No, no, they didn't say together. They was it was just a family, right? So my vision is big
You know and what God put in me is big right in the mic
Okay, let's play this bad boy off and of course I coach companies and you know
and I work with them and you know and we do a lot of cool stuff because I believe that you have to
reinvent yourself
So I grew up in a mini farm back in the state of is Indiana, right?
Yeah, maybe about maybe about half acre maybe an acre and dad worked two jobs, right? Mm-hmm
And and I'm sorry. I used to work that garden so hard. I mean we had the tomatoes and the greens
I remember one time daddy was playing the mustard greens and that's what you plant back in Midwest mustard greens, right first
Dad said son. Look at these greens
I'm gonna eat them. I was like just dirt. Yeah
It's gonna be so good. I
Am lying to you two weeks later. We'll see greens. Yeah. Yeah, we'll be in grades
But what he did was he spoke things in existence
Absolutely. So I have a garden too, but my garden is my business
Yeah, I have different things that I have to put in my you know
I have to you know do the stuff weed it out and take out all the naysayers throw them out
Yeah, the weeds throw them out pick a right environment and nurture it put on the fertilizer
It stinks. Ooh we it smells
But it makes the business grow up
It's so all my businesses are kids some kids a little bit older
You know something a little bit younger some kids I gotta you know
Do a little bit more so after you know, have some tough love on it, but we're gonna grow. Yeah. Yeah
And and dr. Odo what you're saying is that it takes time
You know when you plant seeds and then you have to throw some dirt on it
Then you have to use the holes and the hole and all these things
Audience it takes time
businesses don't necessarily just grow overnight and
One thing that I heard you say too is that you have multiple businesses and I believe that that's something that's becoming more popular now
you know an entrepreneur is an entrepreneur of
Multiple businesses and as you mentioned you are doing coaching you still have the mental health and then you
You're with the kid athletes and and trying to brand them. So
How did you get started?
How did I get started and the business world yes
Oh man Christ great great question. So back in the Midwest, right? Mom and dad
No dad worked two jobs. Mom wasn't us right? Yeah, they didn't give us money. I said you gotta work for money
So I was a paper boy
When then when we've got snowfalls, I'm so happy I'd go to my neighbors shovel their snow make money. Yeah, Rick leaves
What along?
fourth grade at St. Mary's I was a janitor
Fourth grade I was sweet horse
Mm-hmm. The one time I learned how to wax boards and everything else they they
Part of it went to the school but part of the candle may not imagine, you know back was it in fourth grade
You know, I'm making some crazy money. Yeah, I mean on the crazy money like $10
Back at back 40 50 somebody years ago. That's money
I mean, you know, that's money. So and then I went to junior achievement
I started doing you play basketball the junior achievement start selling stuff there
Yeah, so I've been in business all my life. Then when I went to college, I said working with this thing. I
Worked for my dad right and and his company and that was hard. I'm saying that that was hard labor work
I mean five bucks an hour and I might go back in 1983. I'm like, oh, that's that's just too much work
I mean, I was hard. I was
Man, I got all my stuff ready to work the next day. I was just it was like they made seats for cars. Oh
My god, man, I was
Smelling and nasty. I'm like, oh, yeah, I can't see how you do this for all these years
Yeah, so went to college this guy was an insurance business
He says man, this is an insurance business you sell it and man you good
So I started working for like a L Williams and I started by term investor difference and I got great at it
And I got great in that I started talking to people go to my business
This is history. Yeah, but I started off
Young. Yeah, because you gotta have a honest hustle
Yeah, right and people gonna say some people they look at business all is gonna blow up
Yeah
That one percent of these businesses will blow up. Yeah, 999 the 99% of the people is gonna take some time
You could do that by when you plant seeds. Here's the thing about plant seeds. You don't know what seeds in the grow. Yeah
We don't I don't know season to grow. Yeah, so I'm gonna plant the seeds in the grow, right?
But but then you have to water it talk to it
Do you talk to your dreams and goals?
Do you have that expectation?
That expectation that your goals and dreams are to take place. Yes. You have an expectation being the business owner that's gonna get paid
right what you put on inside the
Inside the world is gonna come back. It's every and you
There's gonna come back out. So if you're doom and gloom and angry and mad
This is my deal a little bit charging for you
Yeah, but then if you have that light if you have what it takes to actually move forward
Your business them actually blow up right but it's what's inside of you. That's what people don't even get I said
I said people said the one guy said man John that you don't get mad no more
I said no, here's what I do man. When I go to gym
I leave my problems at the door, right? Yeah
I hope to God someone complained and my problems jump on them
I come back out and miss me, right?
Well, I'm at the gym man, I'm good for three hours a day. What do you do for three hours? I got cardio for an hour
I got lift weights or sometimes I do boxing
I do I do abs I got stretching out. I got infrared sauna. I said man. It's my spa day
I said, but what I get done with my sauna
Oh good, yeah, yeah
But what another thing people gotta take care of themselves. Yeah. Oh, yeah, what's what you eat?
exercise I
Don't have time. Well, you know you have time for everything else, but you don't have time to exercise. Yeah
Yeah, being a business owner man. We have to people say well these athletes make too much money. I say BS
Said if you want to make a lot of money serve more people
Yeah, you serve more people you make more money Michael Jordan back in the day when he was playing 20 years ago. He made
30 million dollars a year and people said that's too much money
Said if he served all the people who watched him bought his jersey
He made it but he makes he's making his 30 million and the only making the billion, but you don't get mad at the owner
Yeah, but you get mad about the athlete. Yeah. Yeah
Interested so you get mad about the creator
But you don't get mad about the entrepreneur. Yeah
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm
And what you said was was was really really
important and imperative and I think that I would sum it up as having a positive mindset
You know as you you mentioned and the mindset is not just only mental but as you stated mentally physically
Emotionally and everything that you do as you mentioned before, you know what you have inside of you goes out into the world
But also not just the world into your business your family how how your future looks how your present looks
so those were definitely great keys to to
Allowing our audience to understand is that it's
I don't think entrepreneurship is for the weak. Not oh my god
It's not for the weak
How many times I?
Did I didn't go because I didn't quit. Yeah, but a lot of times things didn't go right
Clients didn't come to clients and pay
That is like people say job
Good job
You're good. You got an education
And I'm like man every job I was at they fired my happy button and I'm good man
I gotta do my own stuff man
I said because when God put something inside inside your heart
And I tell people man stop listening to people that shouldn't you that I bet you should listen to
Uh, they had this one thing and I'm a believer a finger girl rich. I read the book so many times. Oh my god
So they had a story there right this guy darby was trying to get a gold
Right, and he had this great gold mine. He got all the money family and friends putting money
And then he was getting gold coming out and he was like, oh great. But what happened is the gold line stopped
He was trying to find the gold line looked there and looked there and after a while he's losing money
He said forget it. He sold it to a junkyard guy
I'm gonna call junk. I call him a genius. He's still he see he sold it to a genius for 500 bucks back today
A lot of money and he got it
Geniuses are smart geniuses. Wait a minute
You we had gold we don't have gold more. Let me have let me hire an expert
Got the expert and he had the biggest gold
ever
By 10 times he was a he was a miracle
He was a he was a millionaire in gold
The guy said, you know what though what I didn't do is I didn't get expert advice
So he didn't start selling insurance, right? So darby started selling insurance and everything was cool, right?
And then you know, it was back during slavery times
And his little black girl was saying was saying walked up to him mama 150 cents
He said go inside the house go inside the house and she just stood there
A little while ago my mama 150 cents he looked at her and he and then Nick once said man darby had this
Anger and like little black girl he been you should go back in the house and she didn't go back in house the third time
She said my mama 150 cents and he was gonna go there and hit her
He took one in his pocket and gave her 50 cents
And what happens was she walked back
And the friend said this the first time we looked at her
And the friend said this the first time we look back
Defeated a white man, but what he said was no she didn't
Now he says every time when someone tells me no
He don't he don't listen to it. Yeah
He have this defiance
And this attitude that
It's my moral obligation to do what's right
And you can be so so you can tell me no three four five ten times
I don't care i'm gonna go back to it and I believe that if a business owner
Would accept that type of behavior because you know, I teach cells as well
Right so it's turning in to grow your business, but you have to have that type of mentality
There's two types of people we have hunters and farmers
If you're a farmer in cells, they're gonna eat you up
If you're a hunter
Uh, man people tell me no, I don't hear I just keep on talking. Yeah. Yeah, because I see a little girl my mama 150 said
You gotta keep on talking john you hear him say no, no, he said no
Man, maybe my hearing aid was not up a little bit man. I don't hear that word
No, and if I hear the word no, let me put in like in a sexy voice
Halle Berry no, john
Dr. Oda
Here's something else before we leave I want to ask you to give
What two tips do you have for entrepreneurs?
Give your opinion on just two tips for entrepreneurs for what? What do you mean? So give me a as an entrepreneur
maybe in beginning and as an entrepreneur or in the business and
and things have stagnated or
One is actually mated and not sure where to go. So what tips do you have for entrepreneurs?
So what I would probably say is focus on the foundation
You have to have a strong foundation, right? And I see a lot of businesses who've
Seen five years from now and they want to get to do this and do that
Focus on the low hanging fruit
All right, and and I give you a tip on a one of the low
Hanging fruits that I would pretty much see this come up with a systemized referral program
All right. I worked I worked with the company. Uh, the doctor matter of fact, he was a dentist and I would you know
He had five offices and he did pretty well don't get me wrong, right?
But I contact each officer today. Are you asking for a referral?
You know out of 10 people one officer said nah about two, but we're so busy. That's why no problem
So call them all up, you know, two three two three one
Found out that he's missed out on two point five million dollars
revenue
By doing something that's just free
Yeah, right. So when I came up with what we call us prophesies
Prophecies about 25 of them if you put it inside your book
Put it inside your business. It will grow
Right. So what happens is I'm writing a new book then it's coming out. I'm pretty jazzed about it
Yeah, it's coming out. Um in january 3rd matter of fact
I picked january 3rd because parents will be married for 78 years if they're alive. They died about 11 years ago
but anyway, so
The the book is called life's a garden and that's in my second book
presents
Unlimited business growth on a transform is your is your is your business and get over mental
barriers, right
But I got the four quadrants right and i'm breaking down the four questions
It's going to really go inside some of the tools part
The first part of the quadrant is the part the business what business are you really in?
Yeah
business mindset and faith
Right
The second quadrant is symptoms of a business
How is your leadership?
Are you an effective leader? Are you a neutral leader? Are you a disruptive leader or stagnation?
Right, how's the culture of the business?
How's your team?
Mm-hmm. How are you dealing with the mental health issues that's inside your business?
A third quadrant systemize we mentioned you need to systemize your business
Right and we we systemize three parts systemize
the time management
the sales and the market
And last but not least monetize how do you make money now?
How do you make money now? So I picked up six of my proven systems and actually making money
The one that we actually went for is the is referral with his program is based on there
How many companies that you know have a systemized referral program?
But you ask people for referral people go. Oh my god. I'm I don't want to ask for referral
It's too hard and they might say no
But that's it. If you don't ask
I said I said if you ask
They might not help you but they might have a friend that helps you and sometimes you don't ask they think that you're making enough money
They that you don't even need their help. Yeah. Yeah, so you feed them two different things
So first thing about it is focus on your foundation. You have to have a foundation
Second thing about it is you need to be an effective leader. You have to work on yourself. Yeah
But when I tell people I used to work for people with mental health at 15 16
If you don't deal with those issues at that age
It's just going to form to something different when you get 40 and 50 having kids
You tell me members, right? So you have to work on yourself when you can work on yourself then you work on your whole team
All right
So those are the those are the tips that I would actually say because if you can't work on yourself people say
Man, I said man. That's about 20 250 thousand on myself seminar school of the whole nine years
I go to seminars worship second. I find one thing
People go I know it if you're not using it. You don't know it. Thank you for being here today
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