BE A BALLER -"Building a lifelong legacy"
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On this show, we'll be talking about how to be intentional about building a lasting legacy. We'll be exploring what it means to leave a mark that goes beyond just our own lives, but has a positive impact on those around us and even generations to come.
Our guests will be individuals who have built a legacy in various fields – ministry, business, sports, and community service. And what's unique about our guests is that they're committed to the Wisdom Pledge. That means they're not just sharing their own stories and experiences with us, but they're also paying forward and sharing wisdom to empower the next generation.
So if you're looking for inspiration, guidance, and practical tips on how to build a lasting legacy that makes a difference, then you're in the right place!
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BE A BALLER -"Building a lifelong legacy"
Job Clarkson: From Music Collaborations to Crafting a Lasting Legacy with Passion
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Music Producer, Job Clarkson describes the seven essential mindsets that can lead to a lasting legacy. As a multifaceted artist and the visionary behind the Heart of Job Foundation, Job captivates us with his journey from collaborating with music icons like Ludacris and Rick Ross to founding his own record label, Black Box Entertainment. He shares personal anecdotes that emphasize the importance of making every moment count and reveals how an oversight with TI taught him the value of seizing opportunities. Through an interactive exercise, we reflect on how believing in dreams, leading with passion, and taking accountability can transform our lives and build a sense of community.
We explore the profound impact of passion, accountability, and gratitude on achieving true fulfillment. Job's insights underscore that happiness comes from pursuing what you love, not just chasing financial success. He recounts how honesty in a difficult situation led to a pivotal opportunity and discusses how adversity can be a catalyst for gratitude and resilience. As we wrap up, we're reminded of the importance of recognizing early chances, like becoming a YouTube partner, and acting with intention. Join us in embedding these mindsets into daily life, as we promise they will bring significant positive changes and help in crafting your own lifelong legacy.
Welcome to Be A Baller where we're building a lifelong legacy for our families, communities and the world. Your host, coach Tim Brown, is excited for you to join him on this journey. On each episode, we'll be talking about how to be intentional about building a lasting legacy. We'll be exploring what it means to leave a mark that goes beyond just our lives but has a positive impact on those around us and even generations to come. So if you're looking for inspiration, guidance and practical tips on how to build a lasting legacy that makes a difference, then you're in the right place. So grab your earbuds, get comfortable and let's dive in. It's time to be a baller.
Speaker 2:Our next guest is a producer, a singer, a songwriter, but most of all, he is the founder of the Heart of Job Foundation. Just a little bit about him. The Heart of Job Foundation was created by Job Clarkson in 2017. As a singer, songwriter and producer, job has worked in the music industry for over 10 years. In 2013, job established his record label, black Box Entertainment and later created his production company, music Evolved. He's worked in all facets of the business, working his way up over the course of his illustrious career. Job's art has taken him in many places, most notably his collaborations with Ludacris, ti, rick Ross and Grammy winner Looney Tunes.
Speaker 3:He's here to share his story and share everything about the Heart of Job Foundation. So I want you all to give a warm, warm welcome to Mr Joe Clarkson. Man, it ain't cold. It was freezing a week ago. How y'all doing today? All right, that's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. I had to figure out. The hardest thing, I think, today was how to be able to get to know y'all and let y'all know who I am at the same time. So I came up with something that's called a challenge. Anybody ever heard of the seven mindsets? No, seven mindsets to success. Anybody ever heard of it? No, alright, so y'all got these. Uh, every table has a card on it with lines that say B-A-B on it.
Speaker 1:Right there, you see that one. Right there you got. Can you hold it up?
Speaker 3:Can you hold it up? Everybody got one of those. Everybody got one of those at the table, so I need one person from the table, one person from the table to write down what I'm about to tell you, since y'all know what it is. This is the most important thing. This is what got me to where I am. First one is everything is possible. Everything is possible, and that means, believe me yourself, dream big. The second one is passion first, passion first. Find what you love and pursue.
Speaker 5:Let that lead your life.
Speaker 3:Don't let the money lead your life Passion first. Third one is we are connected, everybody's connected. Six degrees is more like three. We are connected 100% accountable, 100% accountable. 100% accountable, that is, take ownership of your actions and your future. 100%. We ain't talking 90, we ain't talking 99 we ain't talking 95.
Speaker 3:Attitude of gratitude focus on the positives and be very, very thankful. That was a good prayer he said. He said thanks about ten times. That's what we need to talk about right there, alright. The next one is live to give. Live to give, help others and make a difference. It'll always come back around. And the last one, which is the most important, is time is now, right now, act of urgency and make every minute count.
Speaker 3:Mine's going from an hour, actually from a day to an hour, to a minute, and now I'm trying to make every second count of my life, because I've lived through some of the good times. Alright, everybody got those on down there to take them. Yep, got them. Brother, which one? You're going to have to speak louder. Three, alright, what's the third? Here we go.
Speaker 6:See how that works.
Speaker 3:That's how connected we are, right here. Here we go. We have some next round, all right. So what we're going to do is I'm going to get to learn y'all and y'all get to learn me at the same time and.
Speaker 6:I'm going to tell my story through that, so we'll go to every table right.
Speaker 1:I want one person at each table to pick one of those.
Speaker 3:I'm going to tell you something about me and I want you to tell me something about you. Alright.
Speaker 6:Is that good? Can we play that game? Can we do?
Speaker 3:that challenge today? Huh, alright.
Speaker 6:Alright let's do it. We're going to start right here At this first table right here.
Speaker 3:Well, a matter of fact, yeah, this one right here, this one right here, just one of them. Yes, thank you. Say your name first to them all. Right, pick one of those challenges and say how that's important to you. Why is that important to you?
Speaker 6:Because of running out of time. Alright.
Speaker 3:I like that. I want to say that's important to me because time I let things go past me right. One time I was invited to a studio.
Speaker 3:I didn't make it to the studio because I thought I had something going on that was more important. To be honest, I had my child to take care of, right, and I'm like, oh man, I can wait, I can wait. I got to take care of my kid. I got to take care of my kid and come to find out that was the first time I wasn't able to go to a studio with TI, right, and it was to myself, it was like dang.
Speaker 1:I didn't take the time to go do what I needed to do right now, because guess what that time could have did Changed the rest of my life right?
Speaker 3:It took me five years again before I met him the next time to change my life right.
Speaker 6:So I encourage everybody to take the time right now.
Speaker 3:Every day is going to count every second is going to count, and if you do it like that, you're going to be able to make the most out of it. All right, thanks.
Speaker 6:I chose everything is possible.
Speaker 3:Everything is possible, and why is that important to you?
Speaker 6:The reason why I chose everything is possible is because I'm a high school student. I'm going to be honest. A lot of people told me that the brand SOPE was not going to be successful, and yet, every day, I tend to prove people wrong and I'll tell you every time by giving God the word, god will make sure that I'm straight and also, by giving my life for others, make sure that I have a given heart, make sure that I'm giving back to my community.
Speaker 3:That's it All right, all right. So why everything is possible to me? And something that I lived through is I got a felony when I was 18 years old. Actually, I got 12. Because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It took me 30 years, 30 years, but I finally got my passport and I was able to travel overseas. And the reason why that was important to me is because it told me that I never was going to be able to do it.
Speaker 3:So I grew up my whole life thinking I didn't even try to apply for it because I couldn't get there. All right, so don't ever let somebody tell you that you can't. The other thing is I teach. Now I'm a teacher, I teach, I get up every day and I go to teach at schools every day, and I never. I teach, I get up every day and I go to teach at schools every day. They told me that if I didn't go to school, I wouldn't be able to teach, or if I didn't go through all these pathways, I wouldn't be able to teach and give back to my community. I get up every day and I do that. Yes, sir.
Speaker 4:Do you want to add anything else? My name is Trezor and I pick number two, passion, first. Why?
Speaker 3:is it?
Speaker 4:important to you. You just gotta have passion for what you wanna do a lot.
Speaker 3:Alright, so instead of me saying something, about myself.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna tell to tell you why you should use passion first. Right, if you find, if you try to chase what I say, chase the money. Right, if you go after the money and you try to make the money what it is to take care of your life, or you got people that you want to do something for, or you got things that you want to do in your life. You won't get to that point and then, guess what? You're still not going to be happy at what it is that you're doing.
Speaker 1:I know a lot of people that go take these jobs they're doing all these things that they aren't really going to do, and they ain't never been there.
Speaker 3:I mean, they get there and then they sit there one more. You know what I'm saying, and so for me it is if you lead with the passion, the passion is going to bring the money to you Some people chase the money and then they ain't got the passion with it. So then when they get to it, it don't mean as much as it's supposed to you can always find something that you're passionate about, and then you can find something to be able to make that out of it.
Speaker 3:An example of that is I'm in music and entertainment, right, and film. There's music, film and entertainment in everything that we do, right, and so if I just were chasing the end with me a doctor or something like that then I would like that. You know, I mean I'm gonna get to the money, but that's not something I want. But actually is there any doctors in here? All right, okay, right, every doctor I'll talk to say they wish they chose something else, because it's a lot of work, it's a lot of time and too.
Speaker 3:They don't get a lot of time to enjoy life. You know what I'm saying, so I would just say use your passion first, pursue something that's going to make you happy, and then you can get the money out of that come with that. You know what I'm saying, alright, next, I'm 100% accountable. Mr Gilbert, why is that important to you?
Speaker 6:That is important to me because growing up I realized the biggest part of solving a problem is identifying the problem and with that, as you said, sometimes you got to know where you went wrong and what you did wrong to be able to fix it. And that is why you 100% got to take accountable before you move forward with everything else. That's right.
Speaker 3:That's it. Who else do we? Got the thing that I had to do when I had to understand what 100% accountability was. Right, everybody when I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm good All my friends are like oh man, we're going to see this judge.
Speaker 3:we're going to see this judge you know you got to be able to try and get slick way to get out of it and do all these different things. I mean, you're going to see the jail for a long time and all this. I didn't have a lot of tip. I went in and the first thing I said was you know what?
Speaker 1:You know how a lot of people are like man I'm not guilty, I'm not guilty, I'm not guilty, I'm not guilty right and then they get found guilty later because they actually didn't do it.
Speaker 3:I just went in and said I was guilty and he said you know what? For your honesty, for your honesty, I'm going to give you a chance, I'm going to put you on probation Right. That that was a change in my life, because if I wasn't on probation and I would have actually went to trial, I would have got 20 years, which means my whole life would be different than it is right now.
Speaker 3:And so that was the early lesson I got of being 100% accountable, also being humble in my life and being able to say you know what? I did something wrong it is what. It is my fault, my, my bad. I'm able to go to the next thing, alright, next.
Speaker 4:I chose attitudes of gratitude.
Speaker 3:I believe it's a positive and what else you believe? What else is there? It's a positive to be able to be thankful, right, alright. So when it comes to being, who else are you thankful for waking up today? Y'all want to know what I say to myself. I was raised in foster care and children's services, three years old all the way until I was 18. I had an, a job right. Then this was out. I had no programs, no, nothing, right. And my mom still is dealing with addiction today. So just because you're dealing with it right now, or if anybody knows anybody's dealing with it, don't mean you're ever going to get over it, right? You're just not going to know how to deal over it, right? Because?
Speaker 3:I don't know how to deal with it, right, but what I will say is I had some friends that they didn't know what I went through when I was younger right, but a lot of them is in prison and dead right now. So I'm thankful that my mom took me through what she took me through, because it made me stronger.
Speaker 3:So I wake up every day, instead of me being upset at her and trying to you know what I mean do something to make her feel like she ain't right if she ever did nothing right. I wake up every day and I tell her I'm thankful for her, for making me who I am, because I'm standing here today. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, alright, you definitely came in there better. There's a couple days that I definitely didn't get that back.
Speaker 3:There's a couple of days that I definitely didn't take it forward that I was supposed to right. Alright, so one of them is I was a YouTube partner early in my life Anybody who's my older homies right, who was around when YouTube came out? You're right Like we just thought of whatever right we didn't take.
Speaker 1:No, like I was like man they should be. A YouTube came out. You're right Like we just started with whatever right.
Speaker 3:We didn't take no like man, they should be a YouTube partner. All this man, I never really used it. Man I said there's nothing I wasn't gonna learn on. Man. I got two friends that chose to do like teach music on YouTube. Man, they make $50,000 a month off of YouTube and I just showed them how to do it.
Speaker 6:I did it later I'll pay money off of it now but, it ain't $50,000 a
Speaker 3:month Because they came in as a YouTube partner earlier and they got the royalties and stuff that every time they played the advertising hit to it. They made money off of it every time. And they got probably hundreds and hundreds of videos and I don't got that many videos, so that's just a story for me Going to y'all.
Speaker 4:Next, right here a little bit, if you was cool with that. I put it instead of um time is now. I said live in the now you feel me. So like cause, then I don't like to look on my past, on my failure. You know I like to come back off of that. You know what I'm saying? Like grind a little bit, you know.
Speaker 3:Nah, that's going to be one important thing. We say live it now right, live it now.
Speaker 4:Live it right now, forget about yesterday Basically, but not all the way, but like use that as a motivation to push yourself for the next time that you do it.
Speaker 3:I'm like who else believe that? Who else believe that that's good, right, that's really good to do? Because, dang, somebody get that's good, right, that's really good to do. Because then somebody can wrong you today. Right, they can wrong you today. They can do some wrong to you today and then tomorrow you can be upset about it and the next day you can be upset about it and it's bothering you when technically it happened yesterday it happened yesterday.
Speaker 3:If you don't, if you leave it yesterday, then it stays yesterday and it's not going to bother you the next day. For real, you know, what I mean. If it ain't hurt you or harm you or you know, take that somebody, take words. This is what's happening right now. This is why the streets out here is messed up right now. Right. Somebody did something wrong to you yesterday, it was yesterday, it was over with.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm going to hold it until tomorrow or next week, and then y'all get into it. And then now we got all these problems, just because you couldn't let something go for the next day, so I'll look at that as that. I definitely had to learn that over time. I ain't saying that that's something that's easy to do, but what happened to somebody is like.
Speaker 3:I was at the school teaching yesterday and the little guy was like well, he called me this, this, this. I said well, it was 10 minutes ago. Does it matter if it was 10 minutes ago? You know what I mean.
Speaker 5:So I like that my next line. That's fine, hello, my name is LaKhia.
Speaker 1:I'm from Gahama.
Speaker 5:Lincoln and. I say everything is possible because suffering doesn't have to be the end. Suffering can be your beginning. Oftentimes you have to look at where you've been or where you've come from. Sometimes you just have to be grateful for where you are and the situation you came through. At any moment, you can change your life around. You can choose, you want better and it's not very good.
Speaker 3:That's a good one. I like how you brought it up. I never seen a picture of my father. I never knew who my father was growing up. I never even heard his voice at all. I had to go through this in life and be able to say, man, I'm never going to know what it's like to have a father. Now I've got a and I get a chance to learn how to be a father and what a father is from being with my son.
Speaker 3:So I look at that, as you know what I mean everything is possible, because I had all girls until I had my son, which is you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So everything can always come around just how you look at it you know what I'm saying and what you make of it.
Speaker 3:So your suffering could be early which is what you just said, right and then later on, you could be able to make the best out of what's going on. So, yeah, right, so. I started running a foundation because somebody seemed that I was doing a little bit of stuff for kids and they was like oh man, you need to make a foundation out of it.
Speaker 3:They actually took me to make my foundation and I was just telling somebody this when I've done music and film and all that, I've met a lot of people, I've done a lot of things.
Speaker 6:But when I started, doing my nonprofit.
Speaker 3:It took me farther than I've ever been with anybody else. I'm sitting with Jamie Foxx. I'm sitting with Stevie Wonder. I'm sitting with Princess from Africa. I'm sitting with billionaires. I'm sitting with Rick Ross. I'm sitting with these people because they care about the foundation and giving to others. I never thought that I would get farther in life than I was in here. And the second thing is I'm now making just as much money as I was when I was making music and so this is something that I you know what I mean.
Speaker 6:I never really did it for that, but I found out that this is what it is, so I'm with that.
Speaker 5:Alright, one more, make it a good one. I go to South by. I didn't choose. We were connected. I just heard that, but I thought we connected because everything we do somehow like kind of connects to each other. Like, for instance, at school we got what we can. That's low-key, connected to every school. Every school has what we can. I mean I know I can Like Midlands, I know I can, just came to learn from them. Or I know I can, I can only just all connect to someone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there, it is right. So we got all right. So my thing, when we are connected, is how many Ohio State fans have got here? Woo O-A-N. I know are connected is how many Ohio State fans are connected. Oh wait a minute, I know. Alright, now I know. So that's how we're connected.
Speaker 6:You would be surprised at how many Ohio State fans there's?
Speaker 3:all over the world. Right, I go to Los Angeles. I moved to Los Angeles without knowing nobody. I drove from here to Los Angeles. I landed with $400 in my pocket $400. In Los Angeles, $400 gets you 30 days on somebody's couch. Just letting y'all know, $400 to sleep on somebody's couch for 30 days, guess what they're doing after those 30 days. Hey, what you about to do, because I got somebody else on this couch Right, so I get there. What happened is it was around.
Speaker 3:Ohio State. It was Ohio State when they won the championship Right the last time they won the championship. It's a bar in a pub, right. It's like a pub sports bar, whatever they had the.
Speaker 5:Ohio State game. The owner was an Ohio State fan.
Speaker 3:Right, he actually graduated from Ohio State and was an Ohio State fan.
Speaker 3:So I go there and as many people as there is in here right now. It was this many people, Ohio State fans, right? One of them worked for an advertising marketing company. I go in there and I start talking to them about what was going on, just to come to find out they was an Ohio State alumni, right, and I told them they wasn't from Columbus, right. So one thing about a lot of people that go to Ohio State a lot of them ain't from Columbus.
Speaker 3:So I got to tell them about me being born on Ohio State campus and the conversation went so far that they ended up knowing somebody that I knew that went to Ohio State. They gave me a job and I started getting paid $5,000 a month from that one conversation. Right, and that was what started me, if I never had got that job guess what?
Speaker 3:I would have had $400?. I was going to be outside on the street and that literally was like the day before I had to be here. So I was able to go home and tell the guy give me another 30 days, but give me two weeks to pay. He gave me them two weeks, and so that's how God always worked in my life, right? So I appreciate everybody for opening up, speaking about you, know yourselves, and I want y'all to know those seven key mindsets. If you use those mindsets and continue to get them every day and embed them in your brain, that I guarantee the next time I see you or you'll see me later, 15 years down the road, I guarantee the change of life for the rest of your life. All right.
Speaker 6:Anybody else got any questions. I'm out of here. I'm out of here.
Speaker 3:I'm moving on. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. Thank y'all, thank y'all so much.
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