Jason Brown
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90 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Coming up in this podcast... All of a sudden, I'm 27 years old. I'm living the American dream. I'm living in a 10,000 square foot mansion and I didn't like what I thought.
It is a beautiful farm, a gorgeous thousand acre farm. And here in North Carolina, more sweet potatoes grown here than anywhere else. So that is one of our staple crops. Most of our food that we have grown, harvested and donated, which to date is more than two million pounds of food, about one point million pounds of that have been sweet potatoes.
I was inspired by my older brother, Lunsford Bernard Brown II. He was slain in service over in Iraq. I wish that I could say that so much of my passion and being so tough came from a happy place. Actually, all of my passion came from a really dark place of not... wanting to let my older brother down, like no matter what it took, all of a sudden I'm 27 years old. I'm living the American dream.
I'm living in a 10,000 square foot mansion. And I didn't like what I saw because it's, In reflection, Lunsford lived a life of service and giving back. And I was living a life of fortune, fame, and selfishness, a lot of materialistic things. And it hit me to my core. I knew that I had to give back. And I always told myself, I'm never going to forget about where I come from.
And you have to keep a certain level of humility and a certain level of humanity and that compassion for your fellow man.
That was my grandfather. He was a large farmer here in North Carolina. I was inspired by stories that my father would tell me about my grandfather, about how giving he was. Every Christmas, he gave every single one of his family members and friends gifts. a 50 pound sack of beans, a gallon of molasses, and a salt cured ham or a shoulder, that's an awesome gift.
If you're a family that's struggling and going through food insecurity, that's the type of gift that can help you to make it throughout another month or so. And all while growing up, I saw the miracles of agriculture, even just on fruit trees. I would even make fun with my mother when I would ask her for some money. And she said, hey, son, why are you asking me for money? What do you think?
Money grows on trees? I said, well, no, it doesn't, but food grows on trees. There's something of value that grows on trees. That's why one of the first things that we planted here at First Fruits Farm was as many perennial fruit and nut trees as we possibly could.
And my son, JW, who was four years old at the time, he said, hey, dad, when are we going to be able to harvest and eat some of these fresh nuts? I said, what I'm doing right now you and your children are going to benefit from these trees more so than I ever will.
I said, but you have to learn right now what it means to invest in our future, what it means to sow a seed, to plant a tree, but yet it's going to be beneficial and help to feed our families for generations to come. look at all of your unique gifts and how you can give back in a unique way. There's something that you can do to build a legacy
Mick Unplugged · From Detroit’s Streets to Stock Market Success: Jason Brown’s Rise · 27 Jan 2025
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Mick, glad to be here. I'm surprised you knew the What Up Doe.
I appreciate that. Yeah, I believe that you should at least get a taste of the information and the way that a person teaches without having to pay them. And I know when I first got started, I was just scouring all kinds of videos trying to look for information.
So now that I'm in a place to give back and teach that information, I like to make sure there's a platform where people can at least get started and feel comfortable before they even put a dollar up. And that was YouTube for me.
So that's like the pinnacle of one of the stories. And so I think it's important for listeners to understand the story behind the story. And so growing up, a poor single family home in Detroit, Michigan, my mother raised, you know, two young boys and we had bars on the window. I actually never had a bed growing up until like
later on in life but when i was little we used to sleep with sleeping bags and so uh i didn't really realize we were poor until we went to my friend's house and he had a bed and i remember telling him i was like wow you have a bed he's kind of looked at me like of course i got a bed and i was like well i thought beds was for grown-ups because you only need a good night's sleep when you got to go to work and make make money um that's when i was like well maybe we just pour you know
And he had something like, well, maybe that's why he can afford the bed. The reason I'm sharing that was that was my early introduction to starting to realize like there was a difference in money and having it not happen because where we from, everybody had bars on their window. And so I just thought that was normal. I thought everybody, every kid slept in sleeping bags.
So from an early age, then I started becoming even more aware when I would see TVs on, I mean, houses on TV that didn't have bars. I'm like, well, where are those neighborhoods at? And it was typically California. We watching Beverly Hills 90210 and those high school shows. And so basically I started to ask myself, like, how do we get out of this situation? How can we have bars on our window?
How come we don't have a bed? So I got real interested in money. And where I'm from, if you graduate from high school and you didn't sell dope, you didn't get locked up, you didn't get a girl pregnant, like you didn't get killed, by the way, that was a big thing. So we at 18 in our neighborhood, we have these big parties when you graduate high school as if you got a college degree.
And at these parties or these like you made it, you didn't get someone pregnant, you didn't kill someone, you didn't, you know, get locked up. People would give you money like that was it. If they got you through to high school, like that was an accomplishment. And so I got two thousand dollars from my high school graduation.
And so I took that two thousand dollars and I would hear people say, well, you want to be rich, you got to invest in the stock market. I started investing. you know, researching what do people that don't look like me, specifically white people, how they make money, was always talking about the stock market. So nobody in my circle was in the stock market. I took the $2,000.
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