Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] All right, what's up, y'all? Welcome back to one percent man podcast. I am your host, Bertrand. And I just got done working out, and I ran. I don't know how long I ran, but I put the timer 45 minutes. Went on a run, and for the past three days, I have been hitting hard my legs, and I love it. And the reason being is just because I feel as if if I want to prepare to go back into the military and do some type of, like, you know, hard, hard training, no matter what I want to do, I just want to make sure that I'm super fit, right? I just can't respect a man that doesn't take care of his fitness or can't be prepared to be tactical in a situation where you need to be tactical, right? Whatever that situation may be. And the best way to prepare is prepare now, right? Proactively. Be in shape and be fit. Right? Don't be a liability. Be an asset in any situation that you find yourself. And I believe being fit is one of the ways you can do that. Right? If I'm fat and out of shape, I can't be somebody that can really protect others or jump into action. So that's why I work out, right? And also, just. Just for the health benefits as well. And also, I love to. I love to look good naked, right? I don't care what anyone says. It just feels good when you are working out. You just feel great. So something that I do want to share with y'all is that I had a great conversation. One of my friends, Ray. Ray Wimbley. I think I'm saying his name right, but Ray went viral on social media for Freestyle with Common. I think Believe. I think it was in New Orleans when he did this. But Ray and I had a great conversation. His kids were crying in the background. My kids were crying in the background. We. We were two men just connecting. And I really appreciate that conversation that we had because he particularly said something that really struck a chord with me, and I know it's gonna strike a chord with you. He said, great men go through great struggles. And mind you, man, I have been going through some struggles. And when I say that, I don't say struggles in a sense of like, oh, you know, life is kind of hard, or maybe I missed the bill. No, I mean things that normal men would kill themselves for. I have been able to withhold, right? I go to therapy twice a week just because I need that mental offload because of how rapidly I'm growing and how much I'm trying to accomplish, right? And I have this big goal of being. Of having $100 million company and billionaire status.
[00:02:14] And we were talking about how when you dream or when you desire, you know, to be great in your own right or whatever you want to do, whatever your avenue or your niche is, is that you don't. You don't think about all the stress that comes with. With that, right? Like, if you want to be a man of a lot of money, that means that there's a whole bunch of. There's a flip side to that, right? As the world is yin and yang, right? The. The yang may be all this great stuff that you're talking about, but the yang, the opposite side of it is all the BS that comes with it. Like, if you're super successful, people are going to see you as a bank. People are going to see you to bail them out of things that they can't bail themselves out of, right? I say this all the time. First time I made six figures, I had people in my family counting my pockets, watching me, okay, hey, I know you got paid today. Let me get some money.
[00:03:03] They didn't work anything at all, but they felt like they were inherently qualified to be that person that just took all this money that I had or I had to pay them because for whatever reason, they believed that and they didn't put in at all. They didn't put in the work. They weren't with me shooting in the gym, right? But I also want to say that the struggle. Don't look at it as, oh, man, why am I going through the struggle? Look at it as a refinement process. Look at it as the more pressure builds up, right? As they say, pressure makes diamonds, which not really because you're already a diamond underneath, but look at it as that Pressure is what is going to help you to become a better and more refined version of you. I made a coat of arms where I described the man I wanted to be. My therapist said, ever since you made that coat of arms. And I sent it to her and she read it and she was like, wow, this is amazing. She was like, do you know your life has gone through like hell in a hand basket ever since I made that? She said, everything has been like, it seems like our sessions. You'll have highs and super lows. Have super highs and super lows. And she said, ever since you did that, that's when, like, your. Your life has gone through the most that you're going through. And she says, because you put it out into the ether this is who I want to be. This is who I want to become. Right. And even if you're not reading it every day, the ether, the universe, life, God, whatever you want to call it, they know you have declared, this is who I want to be. And life, the ether, the universe, God. I'm going to say God. God said, this is who you want to be. Okay, cool. Here's one test. Here's another test. Here's another test. Here's another test. Here's stress. Here's more stress. Here's more stress. Because perfect example is most people that win the lottery make a lot of money.
[00:04:52] Instantly, overnight, their life changes. And then instantly, overnight, they also lose it as well. Right. I believe most people that get into a lot of money right away, they lose it all because there's no. They don't go through the process of learning to get it and going setbacks and all that. They don't learn the hard lessons along the way. Struggle is the lessons that you learn along the way as you're becoming who you want to become. And if you don't go through these struggles and overcome them, then the next generation has to deal with them. That is the trauma that gets passed on.
[00:05:21] The men in your family, the women in your family, were so weak. All the trauma you're dealing with is all the struggles that they didn't want to overcome or they avoided or they died early and they didn't win and they didn't overcome it. So now you have to deal with it or you don't have a blueprint for it. So now you are creating the blueprint for it. That's a struggle as well. They failed you in that aspect. I don't care whatever happened, whether they died early, whether they didn't die, whether they just didn't deal with it, or whether they were in your life or not in your life. All that struggle.
[00:05:51] Yeah, but you're also not a victim, right? The minute that you understand, hey, I am going through these struggles, and this is my problem.
[00:06:02] Now you can get out of it. Now you can go to the other side. All you have to do is become aware, hey, this is just a struggle that I'm dealing with. And then let your mind now help you find a solution.
[00:06:16] So great men go through great struggles. Affirmation of the day, I am going through great struggles so that I may become a great man. I am going through great struggles so I can become a great man. All right, brother, have a great day. Love you. Peace.
