So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you.

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

So change your mindset. Change how you see pain. I want you to welcome it!

I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.