who have I been waiting long to get on
this stage right how’s everybody doing
tonight
that’s good let me get some energy
that’s what I’m talking about
okay so first and foremost I want to
thank everybody who served and protected
this country all the community members
that’s out here tonight and everybody
that took the time out of their day to
come see these amazing speakers we all
appreciate it I’m sure I can speak for
everybody embrace it why you chasing it
is about breaking cycles stigmas and
stereotypes and it’s amazing that I’m
able to come up here and talk about
something that I actually created and
manifested into my own life this is not
something that I read in a book this is
not something that I got out of a
fortune cookie this is really what
embodies me and I breathe and live it
every single day right and I got to
share this with you guys because I think
that every single person in this room
relates to what I’m talking about right
now and I’m gonna explain to you how I
was able to come up with this and some
of you guys might think this is kind of
funny because I was driving in my car
one night and my car broke down I’m
sitting at a light and I’m about to go
and all the sudden to Carlos and I start
going through the light and I’m like
I’ll just go just go don’t get stuck in
the middle of the street and the car
pulls over I get out the car I got this
toxic negative thought and I kick the
tire and I start cussing and I thought
to myself like Sean you can’t do this
right you got to change this attitude
that you have right now and what I did
was I don’t put out any negativity on
any of my social platforms right it’s
all positivity some of you guys know
that as you follow me on social media
and I forced myself to go live and
everybody’s like yeah go live whatever
but it made me change my whole mentality
because as soon as I got on live I
started giving my motivational rah-rah
right you know yeah my car just broke
down look it’s right there I’m about to
walk two and a half miles home right and
I’m telling people as I’m going through
this that man you can do this like I got
a son that I have to take
Karam I’m a full custody father I got to
be at work in the morning and I’m not
gonna let this bring me down I’m not
gonna let this stop me right and what I
was able to do is I was able to look at
the phone and I was able to say these
few select words that came out of my
mouth and those few select words were
and you just gotta embrace it
why you chase it right I was so excited
it just hit me right here I was like oh
my gosh like it meant something so
extreme but at that time I didn’t
realize it but I knew deep inside after
I started seeing the hashtags and all
the stuff I started realizing that that
meant something not just to them but to
me right and as I went through time I
realized that this embrace it why you
chase it mentality is what I was living
and breathing my whole life right as
being a fatherless full custody father
today right as being somebody who has a
GED but uses it like a four-year degree
and I was able to go into the schools
that would have kicked me out before and
worked with the same kids that are
impacted by the systems that affected me
right can you that’s amazing and another
thing is it’s just when we look at this
whole mentality we look at how it
embodies all of us and I’m gonna explain
these three components that we all
relate to in this room and the one is
the first one is the most significant
and that is adversity right everybody in
here has been through adversity right
everybody okay and one thing that I
realized from adversity when I was young
was I’m not a super religious person I’m
very spiritual but the Bible had a lot
of Testaments of people going through
the struggle right and they had these
unfavorable circumstances that they were
Dell and that they didn’t do anything
with these unfavorable circumstances
that they were gonna let this hold down
and manifest into something that was
negative their whole life and I told
myself that I can’t let this happen to
me but better yet this is a teaching
tool right and I begin to do a little
study and I started seeing the Michael
Jordan’s and everybody got cut from his
high school team I started realizing to
myself like everybody that was
great how to go through something to get
there right can you agree right and I
think that’s what’s really significant
about adversity is because we all have
an opportunity to struggle do you hear
me I gotta say that again
we all have an opportunity to struggle
and what I mean by struggle is grow when
I mean by struggle is get stretched what
I mean by struggle is to become somebody
bigger and better than who we were
before without struggle life is now
worth it right if everything was just
peaches and cream life would not be
worthy and what I was able to discover
through this adverse Bank figuring out
about adversity was that it was a
process of life right it’s very
significant to us and the second thing
that I’m gonna share with you that
embodies this whole mindset is the
journey yes the journey the process the
life experiences that we have in the
story that we create every single day
every day we write a new page in a
chapter right every single day and when
I what I learnt was is that that that’s
significant that each and every single
person in this room has been through
something and that’s individual to you
right it’s individual to you yes people
relate to certain circumstances that
you’ve been through yes you’ve been
through this and they might have been to
that but your story is unique to you
because you went through it in a
different way right and I think that
when we embrace our story when we
embrace what we’ve been through in life
and the life experiences that we have we
can be propelled and go to a different
level in life right
you guys agree okay and the third thing
is this it kind of brings it all
together right it’s the gift and I’m not
talking about a natural-born Talent
right I’m not talking about the skill
sets that we’ve created through the jobs
that we have I’m not talking about a
Christmas present what I’m talking about
is when you embody the adversity when
you embody the life experiences in the
story that you have
and you do something with it right we
all in this room have a purpose we all
in this room have a higher calling to be
here to be fulfilled through life and I
challenge each and every person in this
room to evaluate the things that you’ve
been through the processes that you’ve
gone through and to do something with it
right and when we start thinking about
this gift we don’t think about it just
for us we think about what can we do to
help others with it right impact over
income right it’s amazing and when
you’re able to do something with that
the fulfillment that you get in life is
so rich and nobody can take it away from
you so what I have to say is you know I
was able to change my misfortune into a
fortune wait I don’t got the fortune yet
I’m just joking okay hey I’m working on
it though I’m working on it
okay and when I was able to do that you
know I started realizing all these
things but one of the significant things
about embracing why you chase it is it’s
not about excuses it’s about making
adjustments it’s about taking those
boulders and picking them up out of your
path it’s about climbing under that
barbed wire
it’s about climbing over that brick wall
that’s been put in front of you that’s
what it’s all about
and if we can do that then we can become
the best version of ourselves I’m
telling you right now that’s the
responsibility that we all have in this
room is to become the best version of
ourselves not just for you but for your
kids for your family for your community
for your life work and if we can embody
that into something I’m telling you got
something you got something and I’m
gonna leave you guys with this metaphor
that I was able to create one day when I
was speaking right everybody in here
knows what the Olympic torch is right
what does the Olympic torch never do
whoo whoa the Olympic torch never goes
out so what I do is I take that
adversity and I throw it right here cuz
my Olympic torch is right here it never
stops burning and I throw the adversity
I throw the life experiences I throw
my story and I let it burn and it feels
me it drives me it takes me to a
different level in life because I’m
using it for something I’m channeling
into something greater and I challenge
every single person in this room to do
that in life because we didn’t go
through what we went through for no
reason right each and every single
person in this room has a purpose you
all are worthy of something greater than
yourselves and I challenge every single
one of you to embrace it
Wow you chase it thank you very much [Applause]
this stage right how’s everybody doing
tonight
that’s good let me get some energy
that’s what I’m talking about
okay so first and foremost I want to
thank everybody who served and protected
this country all the community members
that’s out here tonight and everybody
that took the time out of their day to
come see these amazing speakers we all
appreciate it I’m sure I can speak for
everybody embrace it why you chasing it
is about breaking cycles stigmas and
stereotypes and it’s amazing that I’m
able to come up here and talk about
something that I actually created and
manifested into my own life this is not
something that I read in a book this is
not something that I got out of a
fortune cookie this is really what
embodies me and I breathe and live it
every single day right and I got to
share this with you guys because I think
that every single person in this room
relates to what I’m talking about right
now and I’m gonna explain to you how I
was able to come up with this and some
of you guys might think this is kind of
funny because I was driving in my car
one night and my car broke down I’m
sitting at a light and I’m about to go
and all the sudden to Carlos and I start
going through the light and I’m like
I’ll just go just go don’t get stuck in
the middle of the street and the car
pulls over I get out the car I got this
toxic negative thought and I kick the
tire and I start cussing and I thought
to myself like Sean you can’t do this
right you got to change this attitude
that you have right now and what I did
was I don’t put out any negativity on
any of my social platforms right it’s
all positivity some of you guys know
that as you follow me on social media
and I forced myself to go live and
everybody’s like yeah go live whatever
but it made me change my whole mentality
because as soon as I got on live I
started giving my motivational rah-rah
right you know yeah my car just broke
down look it’s right there I’m about to
walk two and a half miles home right and
I’m telling people as I’m going through
this that man you can do this like I got
a son that I have to take
Karam I’m a full custody father I got to
be at work in the morning and I’m not
gonna let this bring me down I’m not
gonna let this stop me right and what I
was able to do is I was able to look at
the phone and I was able to say these
few select words that came out of my
mouth and those few select words were
and you just gotta embrace it
why you chase it right I was so excited
it just hit me right here I was like oh
my gosh like it meant something so
extreme but at that time I didn’t
realize it but I knew deep inside after
I started seeing the hashtags and all
the stuff I started realizing that that
meant something not just to them but to
me right and as I went through time I
realized that this embrace it why you
chase it mentality is what I was living
and breathing my whole life right as
being a fatherless full custody father
today right as being somebody who has a
GED but uses it like a four-year degree
and I was able to go into the schools
that would have kicked me out before and
worked with the same kids that are
impacted by the systems that affected me
right can you that’s amazing and another
thing is it’s just when we look at this
whole mentality we look at how it
embodies all of us and I’m gonna explain
these three components that we all
relate to in this room and the one is
the first one is the most significant
and that is adversity right everybody in
here has been through adversity right
everybody okay and one thing that I
realized from adversity when I was young
was I’m not a super religious person I’m
very spiritual but the Bible had a lot
of Testaments of people going through
the struggle right and they had these
unfavorable circumstances that they were
Dell and that they didn’t do anything
with these unfavorable circumstances
that they were gonna let this hold down
and manifest into something that was
negative their whole life and I told
myself that I can’t let this happen to
me but better yet this is a teaching
tool right and I begin to do a little
study and I started seeing the Michael
Jordan’s and everybody got cut from his
high school team I started realizing to
myself like everybody that was
great how to go through something to get
there right can you agree right and I
think that’s what’s really significant
about adversity is because we all have
an opportunity to struggle do you hear
me I gotta say that again
we all have an opportunity to struggle
and what I mean by struggle is grow when
I mean by struggle is get stretched what
I mean by struggle is to become somebody
bigger and better than who we were
before without struggle life is now
worth it right if everything was just
peaches and cream life would not be
worthy and what I was able to discover
through this adverse Bank figuring out
about adversity was that it was a
process of life right it’s very
significant to us and the second thing
that I’m gonna share with you that
embodies this whole mindset is the
journey yes the journey the process the
life experiences that we have in the
story that we create every single day
every day we write a new page in a
chapter right every single day and when
I what I learnt was is that that that’s
significant that each and every single
person in this room has been through
something and that’s individual to you
right it’s individual to you yes people
relate to certain circumstances that
you’ve been through yes you’ve been
through this and they might have been to
that but your story is unique to you
because you went through it in a
different way right and I think that
when we embrace our story when we
embrace what we’ve been through in life
and the life experiences that we have we
can be propelled and go to a different
level in life right
you guys agree okay and the third thing
is this it kind of brings it all
together right it’s the gift and I’m not
talking about a natural-born Talent
right I’m not talking about the skill
sets that we’ve created through the jobs
that we have I’m not talking about a
Christmas present what I’m talking about
is when you embody the adversity when
you embody the life experiences in the
story that you have
and you do something with it right we
all in this room have a purpose we all
in this room have a higher calling to be
here to be fulfilled through life and I
challenge each and every person in this
room to evaluate the things that you’ve
been through the processes that you’ve
gone through and to do something with it
right and when we start thinking about
this gift we don’t think about it just
for us we think about what can we do to
help others with it right impact over
income right it’s amazing and when
you’re able to do something with that
the fulfillment that you get in life is
so rich and nobody can take it away from
you so what I have to say is you know I
was able to change my misfortune into a
fortune wait I don’t got the fortune yet
I’m just joking okay hey I’m working on
it though I’m working on it
okay and when I was able to do that you
know I started realizing all these
things but one of the significant things
about embracing why you chase it is it’s
not about excuses it’s about making
adjustments it’s about taking those
boulders and picking them up out of your
path it’s about climbing under that
barbed wire
it’s about climbing over that brick wall
that’s been put in front of you that’s
what it’s all about
and if we can do that then we can become
the best version of ourselves I’m
telling you right now that’s the
responsibility that we all have in this
room is to become the best version of
ourselves not just for you but for your
kids for your family for your community
for your life work and if we can embody
that into something I’m telling you got
something you got something and I’m
gonna leave you guys with this metaphor
that I was able to create one day when I
was speaking right everybody in here
knows what the Olympic torch is right
what does the Olympic torch never do
whoo whoa the Olympic torch never goes
out so what I do is I take that
adversity and I throw it right here cuz
my Olympic torch is right here it never
stops burning and I throw the adversity
I throw the life experiences I throw
my story and I let it burn and it feels
me it drives me it takes me to a
different level in life because I’m
using it for something I’m channeling
into something greater and I challenge
every single person in this room to do
that in life because we didn’t go
through what we went through for no
reason right each and every single
person in this room has a purpose you
all are worthy of something greater than
yourselves and I challenge every single
one of you to embrace it
Wow you chase it thank you very much [Applause]
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