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I hated posting on social media. In the back of my mind I’m always replaying a video or comments I’ve read of someone being wrongly attacked for something that was taken out of context. In today’s hyper sensitive times with “FAKE NEWS”, everyone is the PC police for some cause that is easily offended. Deep inside I’ve never want to deal with all of the negative comments and attacks from people or bots. I can’t believe anybody does. It just doesn’t seem right or natural. But then a client of mine, while working on a video and podcast for him, asked how did I become so comfortable on camera and in front of a microphone. I explained to him that I had recorded almost 100 video podcasts interviews in my home video studio. The next thing he did changed my life for ever. He asked for my youtube channel and the name of my podcast so that he could check me out. I was instantly caught off guard and speechless. I can only imagine what was going on in his head when I explained that I had been recording things for myself and other clients for over 7 years and had never published any of the episodes. Instantly I felt empathy for him as he struggled with his videos. It never dawned on me that though I had be recording videos and podcasts privately that others actually may want to see and hear what I was talking about. I had developed a skill, but I decided to hide it from the world because I wasn’t prepared to take the negative barbs and arrows from strangers. But not publishing those episodes also held me back from helping others get better. It was also a disservice to those that gave me their time for the interview and a disservice to my business because because I know for a fact that podcasting is one of the best marketing tools a person could use in their business to get customers. This situation taught me that protecting yourself by hiding is never the right thing to do. As business owners we have to face our fears and show our talents to the world and be willing to lead those that want to follow us to victory.

I speak about improving the relationship between the police and Black citizens. While I will always speak on this subject if asked to, I'll soon be pivoting to the more motivational topic of journaling for success. By nature I am more motivational, so my new subject aligns more with my personality. I'm available to speak practically anytime and anywhere! ...and actually on either of those main subjects! Podcast hosts! Do ya hear me?! 🤣

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In June of 2017 I returned home St Louis from living in South America to visit my family. Instead of staying for 3 months like I usually do, I found myself having to make a decision that would affect the direction of my life going forward. The decision I had to make was whether to start a new business because my current one was failing or buy an existing one. At the time I was working with financial advisors as a marketing consultant. It wasn’t a bad business, the money was good, but I was exhausted everyday from the work. Because I’m very data driven, I found myself frustrated when my clients would choose to do the opposite of what the data showed, knowing that I would always end up taking the blame for the failure of the decision. I know I had to create a product or business that allowed the business owners to take responsibility for their bad decisions. So that’s when my mind started spinning. I began to think about all of the things that I had been successful doing trying to find the one thing that I could help people with while also allowing them to take ownership of the results. I had found many of my clients by reaching out to them via email. I had never met them, but yet I was able to get them on the phone to talk about a problem that I could help them to solve. That’s when another light turned on in my head. Every business can use this. I can help people with cold email outreach. Cold email is just as it sounds. You may have heard of cold calling, where you call strangers to try to set meetings with them. Cold email is the same thing, but instead of calling over the phone and getting yelled at, cursed out and hung up on, with email, they just don’t respond. So you basically get ignored by those who aren’t interested and those who really want to talk to you, they reply and ask for more information or a meeting. So I started reading every book I could find on the subject. I read the top blog posts and tested all of the software sending platforms that were on the market. After 3 months of doing this, I arrived at the conclusion that, I was actually better at cold email than many of the people writing the books and I had the results to prove it.