I went to Robert Smith's house and tell you a quick story, the billionaire.
And the story is you got thirty minutes.
No one gets more than thirty minutes of his time,
period. I was told that.
I done got a jet on a flew to Austin to his house.
Cool. For thirty minutes, man.
Do you know how bad I wanted to sit with this man to get a jet and go somewhere for a thirty minute meeting?
I was at Robert Smith's house for seven hours. Wow.
I
was leaving his house,
and I asked his the lady who runs it, I said,
can I ask you a question?
I said, I was expecting to leave in thirty minutes, forty minutes.
I said, why
was I
in this man's house for seven hours? She said, you know why, Steve? She said, because you're the first person that sat with him for twenty minutes and ain't asking for no money.
The biggest thing Robert Smith taught me was to scale up.
Everything you're saying, Steve, scale it.
You wanna bring 300 boys to your ranch? How do you bring 3,000 to your ranch? You bring 3,000,
how do you bring 30,000?
You wanna change 30,000 lives, how you change 300,000
lives?
He taught me that valuable lesson. And me and Robert Smith, we've been friends ever since, man. And when he gave that money to Morehouse
and paid off all them loans,
do you know he meets with them brothers once a month? He
meets with them once a month.
I was on the yacht for my birthday. He called me and said, Steve, need you to join this call with me on Thursday night. Man, ain't no problem. On got got on a lunch with him and set in got in on a Zoom call with him. He had about forty, fifty of them cats on the line, sat online,
and all I did was give them
information
about the mindset
you have to have for success.
You gotta get your mind wrapped around this thing, man. If you don't get this here,
you gotta have successful thought. Everything I think is big, and everything I try to think is positive. And I'm human, I have my days, you know, when I have doubts and I'm I'm human.
But right after that,
whenever I think something ain't working, I do two things. I start thinking of I get grateful,
and I immediately go into prayer. I get grateful,
and then I just say, okay, God, I thank you for what all you've done for me. Let me just shut up and cool out, and then I go into prayer.
And dog, what I have now
is because of that. It's not because
like, I'm the funniest cat out there, you know. Somebody asked me one time, you think you that funny? I don't know.
I know enough people do. I got about I got a 100,000,000 people willing to give me a dollar.
I made a few 100,000,000.
Now you might not think I'm funny, but I don't really need you to make it though, do I? There's a whole lot of people hating on y'all, but you don't need neither one of them. That's a fact. You know, the fact that I ain't never heard neither one of Lil Baby's records.
I wouldn't know a Lil Baby song, he don't need me.
A$AP Rocky.
He don't he got Rihanna. What he need me for? Scripture says that your gift will make room for you
and put you in the presence of great men.
That's what a gift does.
Now,
if
you can use your gift towards your family,
you may have an affinity for loving your family and it provides a certain level of comfort or encouragement to them and that's just you being a beautiful person.
But something in your life that you does
will make room for you. And what that means is
it'll make a way for you.
Your gift will make a way for you.
It'll provide your life to have purpose and meaning.
That's what it means when it says, your gift will make room for you.
Like, my gift has made room for me. It has allowed me to spread out and expand.
If you're a teacher, your gift has made room for you. You're an educator. You this woman's been an educator for thirty some years. She loves that. She loves.
You need people like that. You who educates the children? You know what I mean? That's a gift. So it's not either or.
You don't have to
don't have to pick your family over your career. If you're doing that, it's because your your family
is laying some type of guilt trip on you.
And see, that's a very dangerous family member. Once again, I told you, the devil's job is to ruin you of your destiny.
Some of the people who work for the devil are your family and your friends.
So you got to be conscious, man. I've had family members when I first got started
tell me you got to get out of comedy. You just need a regular job. You got these twins. You can't be going off nowhere. But if I don't go off nowhere, I never become this.
I you're not gonna get famous in Cleveland, Ohio. You
can't tell jokes just in Cleveland and get famous. So I had to go away to get it done.
But I I I I think I understand.
You can you can love your family and love your gift. And
you shouldn't have to pick between the two
because guilt is the most useless emotion
in the world. Guilt serves the purpose of no one except the person who's trying to apply it for manipulative
purposes.
Every time I've ever been guilty is because somebody, oh, you just done forgot us.
Oh, so now you thank you all that. No. I don't think
no. See, what happened is you think
that I'm all this and you think I now think I'm this when I'm really the same dude.
One thing I learned about money,
money doesn't change people.
Money allows you to be more of who you really are. But if you're miserable, if you go into a job and you're miserable every day, you you needs to quit.
You you gonna waste your whole life going to do something you miserable at? You ever heard the story of Marie Callender? You're familiar with Marie Callender, the restaurant? Yeah. The pies? You know how she started? She worked at a greasy spoon diner. Clear it up, please. The guy,
she was single. That was her only job. The guy's diner was struggling.
He didn't have hardly no customers in it. One day, Marie Callender said, you know what? I make pretty good pie.
Let me try to sell some pies to help you out. He had nothing to do. He said, come on. She made one pie, bought it in the next day. One guy sitting at the counter bought a slice of Marie Callender pie. He
loved it.
He came back. He bought another slice and he told somebody.
Somebody else came another. Next thing you know, all eight slices was gone. So the next day, Marie Callender made two pies.
She came in the next day, sold two pies.
Next day, she made four pies.
Sold all four of the pies.
She sold so many pies that the oven she had wouldn't keep up. So she saved the money and she bought a bigger oven.
She was making so many pies for the greasy spoon hamburger joint that the guy stopped selling hamburgers.
All he started selling was Marie Callender pies.
She
just made pie, man.
Today, there are over 122
Marie Callender restaurants.
You can't go to a frozen food section and you don't see Marie Callender frozen foods and dinners in there.
You know what Marie Callender do? She make pie.
She
was gifted at pie.
If
you babysit, babysit.
Everybody bring their kids, you babysitters turn into day care centers.
Day care centers making hundreds of millions of dollars. You just gotta get a chain of them. Man, come on y'all. You sitting on these incredible gifts that God gave you and you're not using them.
Use your God given gift.
You're have to make a decision because I'm a tell you right now, you ain't gonna live on that job you got. Now if you're gifted at your job, that's another thing.
That's a whole another thing. People are gifted as teachers.
People are gifted as ministers. People are gifted as nurses. That's a whole another thing. You're doing your gift.
But if you're miserable, if you go into a job and you're miserable every day, you you needs to quit.
You you gonna waste your whole life going to do something you miserable at? Are you kidding me? You're talking about the rest of your life, you're gonna do something that you are miserable at doing. Are you kidding me? When God clearly has given you a gift that will make room for you. The bible says your gift will make room for you. You know what that mean? It'll let you stretch out. It'll let you do things you never thought you'd be able to do. It'll make space for you. Take you places to put you in the presence of great men. That's what your gift do for you. You ain't gonna get none of that down at your job. So
now that's up to you, but you gotta make a choice now. You got to go live and do your gift, or you can exist and keep your job. That's a choice you gotta make. And if you think you're too old, you can stop that right there. Because Kentucky Fried Chicken was trying to sell his chicken recipe for 40 years. Nobody believed in it. He didn't get his first franchise till he was in his sixties.
Why you think that picture of him? Look at the picture of the colonel.
He ain't 26 on that picture.
He old.
He didn't hit it till he was old.
And he sold more chicken than anybody in the world until the company came along called Chick fil I read self help books and motivation books. I learn other people's stories to help keep me motivated.
Stop filling your head with this nonsense
watching all the Housewives shows and stuff.
Go buy the book called The Secret. Go home on Netflix and rent that movie called The Secret and sit down and watch that yeah. I'm telling you, it's all about the bible. Everything
is I'm on the road now. So just I'm just trying to listen to me.
You got to look, man.
That bible is the greatest self help book ever written.
Everything I only read one book in the bible. That's Proverbs. Because the book of wisdom and understanding. I never read another book in the bible. But I remember I got Proverbs down. So
he gave me wisdom and understanding.
I ain't got no book knowledge. I ain't got nothing. I ain't got no degree. I ain't got nothing.
But I got dreams and visions. I know how to apply about six scriptures. But I know six real good ones.
You need to learn a couple of scriptures,
apply them to yourself, and go on and change your life.