Issa Rae

Setting the goals that I wanted to set for this year and beyond, he was candid.

He was like, everything that you're making now is for other people.

You're fine, but everything that you're making from this point is for you to invest in other people, for you to invest in projects.

You could be fine right now.

You could retire.

You could be done.

So think about that and how you're

how you're using your money.

And I was like, oh, that kind of put a battery in my back where I was like, oh, I'm cool.

Cause I have been used to just like watching myself and making sure that I'm financially stable and feeling like, again, these things will go away.

And to be able to hear like, no, you're good.

Also was like, oh, well shit, I can do more.

No, but I was like, oh, that's in my future.

Cool.

Great.

And it's again, so dumb that maybe I didn't think that, but I'm so used to like hustling and grinding that it was, yeah, it was a wake up call that there's nothing stopping me beyond wanting to have a successful business and businesses.

Like I don't want to be reckless at all.

Yeah, ironically, when I didn't have money, I was taking all these risks and going heavily into debt.

I felt so crippled and crushed by...

the money that I owed, you know, and that sucked, but I was like, there's no other way that I'm going to get this done.