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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheepgid Sheared podcast.

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I'm your host, Austin Creed and my friends.

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You know, the more I've been busy with work, the more I've been trying to start a new career

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path and dealing with all kinds of new situations, the more I've begun to realize and stop me

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if this sounds familiar.

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How many of you often find yourselves… maybe they're my verge of burnout, but more than

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anything, you're just upset.

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You're not seeing the results you want and the timing that you want and it's just giving

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you a sense of, I am not doing what I'm supposed to be doing and I'm dishonoring my ancestors.

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Or I'm not like my parents or I'm not becoming the person I want to become in the way and

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in the timing that I'm wanting to become it.

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Has that ever happened to you before?

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My money says yes and I'm not usually a betting man, but I know which way the wind

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is blowing.

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Any…

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My friends, how many of you actually know your ancestors?

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Let's start there.

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You might think, well why would I care about that?

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Why does that matter?

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Well, let me answer that question that maybe you're not asking or maybe you are asking,

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but it's in my own head.

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And I'm telling you, I've won the best stethoscopes in the business.

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The reason it matters is because we didn't just spontaneously plop on the earth.

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We have people who came before us, people who busted their backs, people who dealt with

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unspeakable tragedy and horrors to give us the opportunities that we have now.

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And some of us have more opportunities than others, especially right out the gate.

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This is an unavoidable fact that ultimately people are very quick to point out.

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Oh, I don't have as much money as the next person so it's not fair.

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Life's never going to be fair.

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That's not the point of the conversation.

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The point of the conversation is to say, are you honoring the sacrifice of those who came

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before you?

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Now, if you think I'm just saying this for effect, you're mistaken.

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Because a lot of us, we don't do things for ourselves or at least we don't begin that

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way.

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A lot of us, especially if we were in public school or we have normie parents, normie friends,

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normie religious leaders, etc.

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A lot of us, we do everything for everybody but ourselves.

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And here's the here's the kicker.

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We are not taught to do the same in regards to ourselves in a way that benefits us.

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Let me explain what I mean by what I just said.

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We'll do things for others.

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But what we won't do is we won't do things for others that benefit us.

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Let me explain.

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Your ancestors, grandfather, father, people came before you all the way back as far as

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you can trace it, which a lot of people they can't trace very far.

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Because records weren't kept, stories weren't told, etc.

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But when you look at their sacrifice, you look at what they went through the adversities

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they overcame, it helps you say, well, for the grace of God, there goes I refuse to give

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up.

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I refuse to be weak and dishonor their memory.

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You see how you're doing something for them while simultaneously doing something for yourself?

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You see how that works?

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But people don't talk that way, not in the West anyway.

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In China, they worship their ancestors.

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I wouldn't go that far.

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But I think that there's something to be told and something to be gained by honoring your

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ancestors.

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First of all, do you even know them?

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You don't go ask family members.

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I guarantee you one person's got a scrapbook or a book of photos or of stories or something.

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Why?

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Because stories are told, especially ones that maybe shouldn't be told, but if they're

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looped on the liquor or maybe on their deathbed or whatever, they tell you the story of what

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really happened.

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They clue you in on why their life turned out the way it did and it gives you cause to say,

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hey, you know what, I'm not going to give up.

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That's inspiring.

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It's motivating.

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I'm going to go out there and I'm going to win.

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That's what it's for.

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It's meant to fuel you in a way that your ambition for your own selfish gain cannot do.

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As much as I love and will succeed, I love to pursue my own ambition.

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I'm fueled by the flame of ambition.

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I'll tell you right now.

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There have been times, especially in recent times where that flame is having water, sand

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and dirt just kicked on it, poured on it.

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And it takes very direct unconscious effort for me to keep it going.

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Rich men will tell you you need multiple sources of income.

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You need multiple streams to form the ocean that is your net worth in the same way that

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you must have multiple different fires, little separate fires to fuel the overall furnace

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which will bake the cake for your life.

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The problem is a lot of people are not told that.

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I wasn't told that the likelihood of you weren't either.

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And through honoring our ancestors through saying I will not give up not only for myself,

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but for the others around me, those who came before me.

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It's a whole nother way to fuel yourself and to give you a reason to fight.

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Yeah, sometimes my friends, people tell me, Oh, awesome, you rant too much.

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You go on these tangents.

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You know what?

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Maybe stream of consciousness is dead.

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Maybe the idea of just having a free flowing conversation.

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Maybe it is dead when you have people who talk about just one topic.

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They don't go off the topic or they get a blackboard or whatever.

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And they just beat the like beating a dead horse over and over again.

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Maybe people just want to hear the same thing over and over again.

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Me I don't.

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It's not how my mind works.

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Maybe that comes from my ancestors too.

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I don't know.

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Maybe they were philosophers.

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I honestly don't know as much about them as I would like to know.

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I know a little bit, but not as much as I would like to know.

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But my aunt actually took me around because I'm in Kansas and that's where my family

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is from.

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I came out here and she kind of took me down a little history lane of showing me where

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my grandfather grew up, where he met my grandma, where they got married, where you know, who

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his parents were, where they came from, a sacrifice as they made the struggles they

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had to overcome.

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It was humbling.

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It brought things into perspective, and that is why we're doing the show today.

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Because that experience right there changed my outlook and it gave me even more reason

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to persevere through the hard times.

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I mentioned to you all that I'm on a new career path, something that I really never saw myself

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doing, but now I am and I honestly I like it.

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But at the same time, it's very hard to do properly and there's a very steep learning

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curve.

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And I'm not sitting up here to make you guys feel sorry for me.

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I'm saying that because if you're going through a diversity in your life, you think you just

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can't swing it, you can't cut it, you're having a hard time professionally.

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You're not alone.

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You're not.

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You are in good company.

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It's very hard to take the path that no one else has taken to be a trailblazer.

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That takes courage.

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Going on the path that everybody else is doing and being a nine to five, you know, God bless

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you if that's what you want to do, but it's not the same thing.

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It's very hard to be someone who is blazing their own trail, trying to create their own

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little corner in the universe very hard.

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And my friends, if that is you and a part of and part of me says that you resonate with

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this because if you've read the book or listened to the book, or even if you listen to the

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show, you my friend, you're not normal because if you were, instead of listening to this

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on a Sunday, you'd be out there trying to hang out with friends.

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You'd be out there trying to go to a sports game.

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You'd be out there trying to get laid.

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You'd be out there trying to go to a Bible study.

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I don't know what you're doing, but you'd be out there trying to do something, be with

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somebody or whatever.

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You wouldn't be contemplating the very difficult notions and experiences of life.

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You wouldn't be talking about honoring your ancestors.

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Most people in America are so self centered.

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They don't even care about their ancestors.

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They don't have the wherewithal.

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They don't have the capacity to put themselves aside and say, you know what?

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I need I have I have a debt to pay.

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I have people to pay homage to.

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I have people to honor and I cannot afford to sit on my lazy behind.

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My ungrateful rear end and sit there whine, complain and waste time.

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Why?

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Other people gave their life, gave years of sacrifice so that my parents, my grandparents

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that I could be here right now.

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And to do anything but give 100 percent in everything that I do is a disgusting dishonorable

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thing.

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And in fact, it's reprehensible.

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It is shameful.

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So when I look at people who are talking about how they're depressed and well as me and what

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not, I've been there.

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Trust me, I'm not knocking it.

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But you need to put yourself aside.

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If you can't do it for yourself, then you got to put yourself aside and say, you know

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what?

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I have a debt to pay to the people who sacrificed their life, their income, their soul, so that

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I, so that my father, my grandfather and his father before him could be here, could be given

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a chance at life.

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And for you to sit back and say, you know what?

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Oh, this person doesn't like me.

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Oh, my job's not going as easy as I want it to.

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And just sitting there and talking about how bad your life is, talking about the good things

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in your life.

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No cry like a little baby in bed.

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Oh, everyone has depression in their life.

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Everybody has hardship and sadness and weakness, loss of relatives, loss of career.

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Everybody has those in their life.

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And it's through overcoming that adversity is be through understanding that you have

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a debt to pay.

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And I've said that so many times in the last couple of minutes, why I want you to understand

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how much you owe to those who came before you.

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How about your parents for God's sakes?

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How much money, how much time, how much everything that they invested in you?

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Even if it wasn't always obvious to you.

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Could be as obvious as going to a basketball or baseball game, or as unobvious as maybe

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your parents were divorced and your mother was alienating you from your father, which

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is unfortunately what all happens all too often.

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Look at the statistics if you'd want to rebut what I said, look at the data, my friend.

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Put your emotions aside.

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Look at the data.

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Parents put a lot into their kids.

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And in my opinion, they should because they have a debt.

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They didn't.

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Your child been asked to be born, but once that deposit is made, once that effort is

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put in there and they turn 18, they they now have a debt to pay forward.

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And if you can, you pay it backwards, but you always pay it forward.

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And only through paying it forward, you have to have something to pay with.

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You have to have something.

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You got to be able to live up to the expectations and outdo those who came before you because

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that is the American dream.

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The one that people say doesn't exist anymore.

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It does.

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It's just not as easy as it once was.

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And it was never truly easy.

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It's only changed form.

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It's only gotten more complicated.

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My friends, I can I can tell that this is resonating with you, at least to an extent that maybe

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you don't fully understand yourself.

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But some of you needed to hear this today, not because you're necessarily in a bad place,

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but because you need an extra spark to get through your day the same way I do.

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You think I sit here and I'm just always emboldened by the endless flame of ambition?

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I'm not.

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I have hard days too.

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In fact, I haven't had a lot of them recently.

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But you know what?

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Think I'm going to sit here and talk about how, oh, well, you know what, guys, I'm sad

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and I'm depressed, things aren't going my way.

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And let's all sit here and throw a pity party.

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Fuck no.

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Absolutely not.

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I'm not going to do that.

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That would be weak and pathetic.

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Instead, we're talking about honoring our ancestors.

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We're talking about paying it forward, picking yourself up by your bootstraps and getting

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your butt in gear and saying I'm going to achieve for myself, for my descendants and

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for the people who came before me to honor their sacrifice.

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Period and a story.

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That's what we're talking about.

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We're not talking about reasons why we can't get there.

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We're talking about reasons as to why we will get there and how we can fuel ourselves forward

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to a better future.

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My friends, you let me know.

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How do you honor your ancestors?

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Have you even heard of such a thing before?

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And if you have, how have you done it?

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What were some things that really helped push you forward to fuel a better future and to

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pay it forward the way that your ancestors did?

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My friends, let me know what you have to say.

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I'll be doing more regularly scheduled broadcasts as I'm moving again into a different place,

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hopefully with better internet connection.

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So it'll be a lot easier.

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But again, I'm not making excuses, just giving you all updates on what's going on.

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Because those of you who love the show, I know that you'll stick through.

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Those of you who don't, you know what, you can feel free to move along.

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The show is not for everybody.

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This type of philosophy is not for everybody.

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A lot of people want to just uplift mediocrity instead of trying to motivate themselves to

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achieve something beyond what they believe possible.

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They don't want to be trailblazers.

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They want to be followers.

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That's the normal unfortunate reality for most people because they don't have the guts.

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They don't have the desire to risk and potentially reap tremendous rewards.

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My friends, take care of yourselves.

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Enjoy your weekend.

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I look forward to hearing about how you honor your ancestors and how you pay it forward.

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I'm out of here.

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Peace.