I
Know it's hard out here for a pimp when he trying to get this money for the rent
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent got a whole lot of bitches jumping ship
Now sug , I got an idea how this should go
Is it hustle and flow or flow in hustle nowadays
We're gonna figure this out y'all welcome to episode one of
Shit, that's just life podcast. Whatcha sista
Cecil and while I have your attention
I
Want to give an insider on who I am
I
Just give you a little bit of what I currently do for work and or a living as well and
Where I was born and raised so first things first
Which is who I am I am Cecil
You can find me on Instagram. It @made by C E C I L
Dot underscore
Cecil I
Am Cecil . I am a young 26
educated bright
Very high spirited. I am joyful person
I'm always in good spirits. It's very rare that I am in a bad spirit
Also a little bit more about me & what I currently do for a living
I am a fashion designer
Also a federal government worker
Also a drowning civilian so you can go ahead and add me to the list
Also, something I would like to share is where I am from. I am born and raised from Kansas City, Missouri
Go chief go my homes. You really been working part
So born and raised from Kansas City, Missouri
Move to Dallas, Texas at the age of 23. I am currently at the age of 26
But I moved here at 23
Right when COVID slowed down, but my mother had just passed away. So that was partial
Reason for leaving Kansas City
My major reason for leaving Kansas City at a young age with no one but myself in my bags and my car
Was because I wanted to become a better fashion designer
Considering that I taught myself how to hand so and then
later bought a machine
watch YouTube videos and
taught myself how to
Use that sewing machine. I was like baby. I need a teacher
Baby, if I gotta keep guiding myself through life
I might pass out not saying I'm ever quit, but I might pass out on a ride
But no truly it didn't really hit me till I started teaching myself how to
So that it was like dang girl. You might be teaching yourself a lot of things now that your mom has passed away
So and I honestly already have known that
Since considering it's been a total of five years five or six years
She passed away in 2019
and I moved like two years later from Kansas City and
With that
Realization baby, I'm really learning how I have to learn how to become excellent
Because this is this is something I asked for God. I was like oh God, please make me excellent
So I'm learning how to become excellent without my parent
and it is a
journey that I am moving into
Nervously but yet confidently
So I really don't mind going through life by myself
as long as I continue to pray we are good on my end and
You know, I can see and smell BS from my Malawaii
So that's just a little something about me a little intro there
But just to kind of switch up the mood
Da da da da
Let's get to the good stuff. Okay, so I
am going to let you guys hear some
Really good interviews I've had and not really interviews. I'm just gonna say great conversations
I've had with my Uber drivers. I've gotten to really get to know
The great civilians of the world
Okay, good taxpayers. Okay, so just getting to know everybody I've had questions
prepared
for everyone just because the state of
Mine frame I met as of today
Just as a 26 year old growing black
Human being it's just a lot going on then it's the political world. It's just a lot, you know
Shit, it's just life you guys. Let's get to
The good stuff though. I'm gonna let you guys hear
These
Interviews I'm excited. I am so excited about playing these interviews for you all. I am going to start here
soon
And I just want to get some feedback if you got questions for me if you want to answer some of these questions
Please subscribe tap in
Comment reach out to your girl
Because I will be giving my feedback
Once I let you guys hear
The interviews, okay?
So it's time to start with
Life
Friday, what is it 10?
27 a.m. I am recording real life. So this is just audio for my podcast shit
That's just life. Oh, I have some questions to ask you
But just to get a little insider on who you are. Can I get a
Date of birth and where you're from?
Okay
Groves, Texas, which is down by Beaumont. Okay, Groves, Texas
Yes, but I went to elementary school in junior high in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Okay, Colorado Springs, Colorado and my family all moved here when I was 14 years old to the Dallas area
Okay, that was in 1980 so I've been here 44 years. Okay, so oh that's interesting. You have a journey already
Okay, so I have some questions here just to get a little insider here to get to know you
Okay a little bit just to get to know you in your mindset of where
Just off of observing where we are in life
At the moment
Politically financially, you know, how would you describe your future in three words?
Just based off now
Up in the air
Up in the air. Okay. That literally is three up in the air. Okay. I can look at that
Secondly
How would you plan for a life-threatening disaster and I'm talking about with this climate we have now, you know
How like and it's something we knew was coming like Florida new the hurricane was coming
But also, you know, we have highways to keep in mind
It's a possibility that you can get stuck on a highway right when trying to get away
How would you truly in this day and age? I've always asked myself. How do you how does one?
Truly prepare for a life-threatening disaster
I mean, I don't think there's
Any one way you can prepare
except for
If you know what's gonna happen kind of like the people in Florida knew a hurricane was gonna come if they thought they were in the
Path or there was enough danger then to get away from that as quickly as possible. Yeah, you know
Hopefully if you live in Florida, you have a plan and have some equipment to board up your windows or whatever you need to do
Yeah, how would you say this the best way to prepare out here in Dallas for a life-threatening situation?
Because they're only in Texas, right?
Well, that's that's good because obviously we're not gonna have a hurricane, right?
Could have some tornadoes you have to be you have to be careful about that and you just have to you know
If there's a if it looks like there's a tornado that's about to hit you try to get somewhere safe inside a bathtub or you know
Oh something like that. Okay. It's somewhere as safe as you possibly can
But back to you saying yeah, okay. All right. Oh, that's good
On top of here or something. Oh, okay mattress on top of me. Okay. That's good to know because I needed to know what to do
Okay
Next question here. What's this crazy? What's the craziest thing you've heard and?
Second part question to that once you figure out. What's the craziest thing you've heard?
Yeah, second part is is there anything that will surprise you anymore as of today?
Is there anything that surprises you anymore?
Well trying to think of the craziest thing I've ever heard is really difficult
Because there's so many crazy things all the time, right? Yeah
And what was the second question the second figure it out for you think you think of that first one
The second one is is there anything that surprises you anymore?
No, no, not really. No, okay. No
Okay, we all get shocked daily by something something we wouldn't have thought of yesterday
Yeah, but it doesn't surprise you right right. Oh wow
See some because I'm 26 so much surprises me right, but it's like I get I meet different people and some people are just very much
No, not surprised at all shocked, baby, but right even then they're like I could have foreseen that coming
Oh god, right. Oh wow, okay
Nothing shocks you anymore. Okay, not the surprises. Okay, but you you still feel a shock, but no full-blown surprise
Yeah, it's like it's like yeah, it's like oh my gosh. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard now, but
But oh wow new crazy things for so long. It's it's actually just part of I guess life. Oh,
Yes, shit. That's just life. Yes. That's just like just like the name of my podcast
That's just life
That's crazy that's pretty good. No, okay, there's another question here. I would like to ask here for the record
Okay, okay
And that's just to get on because I asked you this one earlier
But this is a this is be the second to the last question
Okay, the first question is if you could go back in time to your own to your to your younger self
Yes, what advice would you give the younger you?
Two things
All right
One when you get into relationships
before you
Decide to lock in on a relationship long term or marriage or anything like that. Yeah
You got to make sure it's with the right person
It's gonna treat you right and you need to be at the right
place in your mind and life before you make that decision because
It's easy to it's easy to fall in love or have feelings and you know
Want to lock somebody down or be locked down?
but
Oftentimes it makes you rush into something and then later years later decades later you realize wow this was actually
Pretty bad. I could have done so many different things. Oh wow. Yes. Okay. Hmm
So younger you would kind of be like relax and
kind of
What's the word you want to basically?
Live a little bit right
Yeah, live a little you know, you don't want to put the fruit all that fruit in one basket. Yes. I hate to do that
Yes, that's good. Okay. Is there anything else you would tell younger you? Oh, absolutely
100%
Okay, a couple of things when yeah, there's two things one one is one is more career wise
And one is financial wise. Okay, so the career wise is
The grass isn't always greener on the other side, yes, sometimes it would be better to continue to
do
When things get tough or challenging at a company for whatever reason bad boss bad culture or whatever
That sometimes it would benefit more to
Stay in it and see what you can do to just be better for yourself. Yeah instead of
trying to
Hop to another job and or company that that seems like it's better because a lot of times that's happened to me a lot
I was in the restaurant business for almost 40 years and
Something would get get challenging or whatever something. I didn't like what was going on
So I you know get on the internet or or back in the day the newspaper and find another
Opportunity and jump in with both feet and and sometimes realized wow
I just jumped out of a not so great of a situation, but it was something a lot worse
And that's good word wording that you use opportunity versus job, right?
Because that's how we look at these is oh, this is our this is maybe this is my opportunity
Maybe this is my calling and the whole time is literally just another job
Another job that you find yourself doing. It's not the actual
It's not the the home run you were looking for you know what I'm saying
It's just it's another job actually
That that's a lot. Okay. That's good and you stated for my banger question
Which is less money more freedom or more money less freedom? Okay? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah
That's that's the banger question and I'll tell you that but I still got one more thing the financial thing
I tell my younger self all right
Get good with your finances. Okay. I mean really really
Study or get some training
Financially maybe even pay a little money to get a really good honest legitimate financial advisor
Okay, that could help you to prepare for the future because there's things you can do with your with your habits
All right, and figuring out how to how to save money how to not get into debt
And also I guess it goes into saving money, especially you right now at 26. All right
There are proven formulas. All right financial formulas that if you just put a small percentage
5% 10% whatever of your income
Into the proper investment tools. All right safe, you know secure type investments. All right and
Consistently did that you let's just say 26 year old person
consistently did that for like let's say
20 years now you're 46. All right, you've just been doing that letting that all build up
And even if you had some challenging moments, you didn't pull it out or yeah or stop putting into it or whatever. All right
If you did that by the time you're in your
And then you could even stop that all right and by the time you know 10 years later in your 50s with just
compounded interest and and and the growth of your money
Yeah
You'll have more money than you could ever dream of
And if you don't do it
Every day every month every year you don't do that
It gets harder and harder
You know yes such as if somebody was 26 put in 10% of their income till they're 36 10 years
And then waited another 10 or 15 years you'd have you'd have you know
Well over a million bucks something like that. Okay. All right
but
If you waited till you were 36 to start
You would have to put in more money than that for like 20 years to catch up to those 10 years of what you did from when you were
26 oh, wow. Yeah, all these are proven mathematical financial formulas that
that I wish I would have looked into way back when because
You know I didn't I wouldn't be driving Uber if I if I had done that stuff
Okay
Yes, so that goes into your last question right the
Less money less money more freedom more money or money less freedom
Yes, well, I did more money less freedom for my entire life
I did I did that for my entire life and
And I had a pretty decent lifestyle and everything and it was all fine and dandy
But but I missed out on a lot of life
Yeah, I missed out on a lot of things
I missed out on a lot of events when my kids were growing up a lot of moments a lot of moments
You know because I had so many responsibilities and this and that and and two years ago
I decided I couldn't do it anymore and
Decided to do Uber while I was trying to figure out what I really wanted to do in life
Yes, and you're at the age of 60 and you're like really close. Yes
Close to you like skip it, you know, right? I've been working all these years. Yes, I like that
I like that. I would think I think that's even more better
Because sometimes it's 26. I'm I'm always thinking like oh am I giving up too quickly?
Because I'm always thinking of ways to work for myself, but then I'm always
quitting a nine-to-five
Right, and it feels like I just that's not the way in life like you can't keep quitting when things go
Don't go your way or don't go as fast as you would like
Yes, but I also don't never want to foresee myself sitting ten years at a job
Like I don't foresee giving anybody ten years of my time at a corporate job
Like maybe a person but a corporate job ten years. I meet people. They're like, oh, I've been here ten years
I've been here in eight years
Can't get past a year baby. Like this is my first time getting past a year
So and it's not there. It's not that it's just like once you start to learn the job
I'm like, oh, there's more to there's more than me than this, right?
And that's what I come to that realization, but I'm also trying to learn discipline of hey
When things don't go your way all the time, you got to know when to sit down
Yes, because that's what a job shows you a job will discipline you to me the corporate work role shows you a good a good
Brought of discipline, right?
But also they show you the route of this is just optional baby like don't forget
This is you do have rights. Your right is you can quit or you can work, right?
So that is what I think of it like you you still have rights, but you're learning a lesson over there
It's up to you to to look at it in a different perspective, right?
Because that's how I did it. I just look at look at things in a different perspective
I look at it like if I can do this I can run this but if I can't even listen
I don't tell somebody what to do, right? You get what I'm saying?
So that's just how I looked at it different perspective
But I'm like in the mix of it now you got to make an escape goal to get the hell out, right?
Because now you learning what to do
But now it's time for you to go apply what you just learned elsewhere, right?
You get what I'm saying if you learned how to come in on time now
I need to go apply that by showing up on time at my own job every time up for my own business
You get what I'm saying? So I look at it like
What one give you it's up to you how you take it, right?
I can take it as I can switch the perspective and look at it in my best way, okay?
She's yelling at me, but technically if she didn't care
She wouldn't stop but just stopping yell
Exactly, so clearly she cares. This is a passionate yell
Huh, okay?
It's a good way to look at it
Because I've learned people quick if I if they can care less they're not wasting their time or their breath, right?
So even if they're telling you that they don't like you there what they like you right?
They wouldn't waste their time or breath and typically a person will literally just walk away from someone if that's not worth it to them
That's right, so I'm like if somebody is wasting their time on me
I look at it like okay
It's not a bad thing because you could have good you could have just not said nothing at all right even with a manager
So my job is to take that and to like I stated
Apply it elsewhere, right? If I'm yelling at somebody only yell at a yellow them out of passion
Don't don't let it come for anger if you need the anger to step away
But if it's not coming from passion like hey, I really for see you succeeding. I know you can do it
You just be a little lazy, but you just need that little fire under you
I can under I can respect that type of passion right so that I think that's that's kind of dope how you are
Willing to take any any and everything you've learned in the corporate world
Years of experience to be like you know what now it's time to apply mine
Now I wish you would have done it earlier. I do I wish anybody would do stuff early, but it happens
This is like I said it shit. That's just life. That's literally just life
You don't know when your journey is gonna be able to shift to be like you know what this is not for you anymore
Right and for you it was like around 50s. Yep. That's fine. Sorry
You know for you in your 50s and 60s, so
That's dope. I think that's pretty dope that you're like hey
50s 60s I work my ass off. I read the diet Ryan right to have my own. Yes
like that I like that I
I actually like that. I'm gonna get a tattoo that says that. Yep. Get richer diet Ryan. Yeah. There you go
You'll need to blame 50 cent first as I was here. Yes, but of course
But this was just another episode with your girl Cecile on my podcast shit
That's just life and
We're gonna wrap up here. It was a pleasure speaking with you Uber driver. You too. That's just life girl
So it was a pleasure. This was fun just speaking about real life stuff you guys. Yes, and um
We are out. Bye. Bye
Okay, let's do a recap on the Uber driver cars. Okay, the last one specifically
That Uber driver gave some great advice
I love the fact that he stated that he would just make sure that his finances were better
Because I'm like, you know what I'm tired of getting relationships feeling broke too
So I definitely understand the fact that he's like hey make sure you got your finances together before you're thinking about
Diving into a relationship. So I definitely respect that and
Also, I love the fact that the Uber drivers are just willing to give out advice
Just to us civilians take that one in what he says start putting 20% of your check in the bank
As well taking all that advice from these good civilians out there. Okay
But on another note you all anyone anyone out there listening have questions for me
Want to answer any of those questions that I put out for those Uber drivers?
You tap in let me know because I am willing to answer you all okay
I also need some answers. So you guys have any answers for me based off those questions
Tap in with your girl. Please
Living life and no parental guidance. So please let your girl know something
But on another note you all I was watching a show last night, which was called the Chris Rock show
The show came out
In the 1980s specifically and last night on the episode
Basically, he has a rap group come out and perform
So the rap group goes by the name of the Beastie Boys
So I was excited because I've heard this name before but not yet seen these boys perform
So I'm watching I'm watching I'm watching and then I'm stunned. I'm stunned because I've never seen a bunch of
three
And they were all three specifically three Jewish boys
Rap like that and they rap really well
Didn't hear a cuss word
They were rapping pretty well now. I was stunned and left with questions
Of course
But now I'm like I'm not even gonna ask the questions. I'm gonna do some research
So that's where I'm at with the Beastie Boys. I'm gonna do some research on them because I clearly want to know more
It was a good show though and now I need to go do my history on the rap game as well
But I was I was so thrilled. I when I saw that I was very much stunned
I still am speechless to this moment of hour
But the Beastie Boys performance was very good. Would I be lying if I'd say it wasn't?
It was very good. Okay you guys
but
Thank you all. Thank you all for taking time to listen to you girl
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More life
Okay, so I'm excited this journey of
26 has truly truly truly truly been a journey 25 was something but 26
Starting to crank it up baby crank it up
So that's what I'm gonna do baby. I'll crank it up
So I'm excited tune in stay tuned in stay subscribe keep engaging with your girl
Please tell your daddy tell your mama to your uncle to your sister to listen. Okay?
I'm here if you guys have any advice for me the 26 year old that's living life navigating through life
You let me know, okay
I'm out. It's been a blaze. It's time to go back after into the world
Smell the flowers
Bye