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I know, but I'm saying I'm going to do it. I'm going to be a star. I don't know, man. Nobody has the confidence and the decisions that you're making for yourself like you do. If you're waiting for that to connect in the beginning stages, it may or may not. If it doesn't, it shouldn't prevent you from following through on whatever the line of like go is for you. There is no success without failure. They go hand in hand. What the failure comes amazing lessons, adjustments. You get sharper because of the shit that you've done wrong or that you didn't know to approach a certain way that you now know how to approach. I embrace the concept of failure just as much as I embrace the win of success. That environment that we were raised in is not like the best environment for anyone, but it's an amazing environment for those that live in it because it's all we know. The normalcy is the low. My mom strived for the higher side of it. My mom was education, degree, trying to get another degree, trying to get a master's, trying to... My mom was like always wanting to get better, always wanting to educate herself more because she felt that it was the biggest strength that nobody can control but her. I couldn't pay my rent. Can I pay my rent? I need help. She was like, well, I'm not helping you until you start reading the Bible. I was like, my mom reading the Bible. I was lying. I'm reading it. Come on, mom, this is real. Mom, they're going to kick me out. Are you reading your Bible? Yes. When you read your Bible, then talk to me. She did this for like a while. One day, I was like, you know what, man, I was literally by myself and I was like, what am I going to do? I was like, let me do this Bible. I was reading the Bible and I opened up the Bible. My checks, rent, like multiple months of rent checks, had fell out. I was like, you know what? It's pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. And then I had to actually open a Bible and start reading the Bible. But that was her way of, of course, knowing that I'm lying, first of all, and be giving me one of the best lessons ever. My light bulb moment was, look at what not applying myself got me. I feel like the dummy that doesn't know what he wants to do in his life. And now I'm at community college. I'm working as a lifeguard. I eventually went to go work for City Sports. It's a sneaker store. And I remember I started working at the sneaker store. Talked about this for years too. I was like, oh man, this is, this is cool. This is what I want to do. I got the thing that I want to do. I was so excited that I went and got a job, found a job. I'll do this forever. And I'm going to make it to the highest level so I can have a career. So I become the manager and after being the manager, I work for corporate. And this is something that I can build. Like I was already inspired because I was like, I had to figure out what I'm doing with the rest of my life. What's my life? Now I'm panicking. What a, huh? And I was flourishing in the space of sneaker sales. Education and college degree, I don't have, but in the space of personality and sale, I was able to maneuver. This is it. This is my calling. That's where the real beacon of light presented itself through ideas of my friends. You should do stand up because you're funny. I knew that was very funny. I knew that was entertaining. I knew that can make people laugh. I love being the center of attention. I love the idea of a stage and a light, but that wasn't the thing. I wasn't like, I got it. And it's what it's going to do. It was presented and then I went and did the image tonight and that's when I fell in love. Let's get it on the floor. Low-cap, low-cap. The thing I needed was a tape. And the reason why I needed the tape was so that I could send it to the other comedy clubs so that they can have an example of me, my talent, and then dictate a judge if I can get a live audition in person. If you could understand the feeling of getting off that stage, having a good set, and then putting the tape in my hand, it was gold. I got it. I got a good tape. I got to go make copies of my tape and I just got to send them to everybody. I just used to... Because it was value. It was value. Started getting in comedy clubs, started getting auditions, started getting more. Oh my God, Kevin's up for an audition, movie audition, cast and directors, they all got that tape. Everybody got that tape. Not many people are going to wait through the 13 years of like bullshit, hardship. Most people opt out at year two, maybe three. No money, whatever. I need to figure something else out. Year six, fuck this, man. Stupid. What am I doing? Why am I doing it? Right? I'm going to go find the Quick Avenue or the Quick Return. Because money is the... That's what it boils down to for most people. Where's the money? Where am I making the money? When the money comes, it comes. What you find is that it's not hard to make money. Once you start making money, you learn how to make money. Like you... It comes with education. It comes with understanding and it comes with a better resource of mine that makes you go, no, I'm going to do this and I'm going to build this and I'm going to go here. I'm going to meet, I'm going to present. I have an idea. I'm going to pitch it. You're now a much better machine because you understand. Money is no longer the thing that you think it was when you get to it. But getting to it, to get that understanding, you lose the pack. You lose the pack because the pack is like, I want it here. Because it didn't show up here, I got to go figure out a new thing to do that's going to give it to me here. And they got to recycle like... They lose focus. Yes, you're never completing anything. And they think that more, doing more things is increasing the probability of success. 1000% where it's the opposite. It's the opposite. It's the thing that you actually thought of that you are going to put 100% of your mind and focus into to complete. And then after that, you're able to pick it apart and take the good, the bad, the whatever and either restart that thing again to improve it or make a decision to do something else. But you finished. I made the choice to stand up comedy was what I was going to finish. I made a choice that becoming a good comic and a good headliner. If I focused and did it well, that would open up the doors for me to do everything else that I want to do. If I don't have that, how do I expect to get in? I started a lot of stuff that I didn't complete in the younger years. That was me and my mom's battle. No, you're going to finish it. She will make me finish it. Now I want to quit. No, you're going to finish it. So I ended up doing a lot of things with an attitude, which is why I have to ask this. And as I got older, you realize, well, why are you putting time into something in the beginning that you don't want to see through? Why? Or just because you have like a rough moment or a rough patch. Why is it so easy for you to quit? Why is the idea of quit so quick to you to come up with? And why are you so comfortable with the results of that? I shouldn't be. And I shouldn't be my like motto. So we don't stop. If we start something, we see it the entire way through. At the end of it, even if you don't like it to the highest level, you know that you put your time, energy into something that you're at least proud, proud that you did, proud that you were able to put a period on that sentence. And now you can start the next thing, but it's not until you complete something that you can honestly sit with yourself and go, that's, that's, that's what life is. 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