Jason Brown
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90 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Jason Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mick Unplugged · From Detroit’s Streets to Stock Market Success: Jason Brown’s Rise · 27 Jan 2025
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And I knew that I would have to do something different or different than the people around me to get that success or to get to the levels that I wanted to get to. And now that I look back, I'm like, oh, you know, a little bit of that was discipline, a little bit was vision. And a whole lot of that was my mother praying, bro.
You know, my purpose was my mom. My mom. I don't think I've told this story anywhere else. But I had like an ounce of weed. And my mom was like, I got to talk to you when you get home. And I don't know why, but I'm like, she found the weed. Because I was selling weed. We were selling drugs. I'm like, damn, she found it, right? I just knew. She didn't tell me where it was.
She's like, I got to talk to you when I get home. I was like, she found the weed, right? And I ended up getting home before I took the weed, gave it to my friend. I just knew. I mean, she didn't whoop me or anything like that. You know what I mean? I'm not grown. I'm like 13, which is even weird to be selling weed at 13.
Um, but again, we, I even think like the guy who sold us an ounce to break down and said like, what was he thinking? Some 13 year olds, an ounce to break down, but okay. So when my mom found that I was 13, I think it's eighth grade, seventh or eighth grade. And, uh, just how hurt she was. And I remember how hurt she was when she found that she's like, this is not us. This is not how I raised you.
I told her at the time, I was like, my mom was holding it for somebody. It wasn't mine. My mom passed away last year, but, you know, so I ended up giving the weed to my boy. I was like, you can sell it, do whatever. Like, I'm kind of done with that. And then even with the gang, I was just like, I was just like, man, you know, my cousin was the leader of a gang.
And I'll never forget what my cousin said. They went to do like some dirt. You know, I don't want to say what they went to go do, but I'm talking, you know, stuff that ends up on the news. And I'm like, OK, we riding out tonight. And I never forget my cousin was like she passed away since as well. But my cousin was like, no, not like you got to stay back.
She was like, we need you to go on and become a lawyer or something so you can get us out of prison. And I, you know, like at the time, I'm like, no, I'm down. It's the hood. But I look back and I was like, wow, like they saw something more in me than I saw myself. And I remember when she said like, no, you can't go with us. By the way, yes, my cousin was a female leader of a gang.
And they told me stay back. And I did. You know, they went. But like even I was in the gang, they would never let me do something that would like compromise my confidence. future, you know? And when I look back, I just was like, man, my mom, my family, it was like, there was always something where it was like, you meant for a little bit more, uh, than what this path has for you.
And there's a part of me that just wanted to prove them right. You know, I remember saying that on my own podcast, I remember once saying like my mom, I will be the best investment my mother has made because my mom's from Mississippi. She grew up in slavery times. They grew up picking cotton. My dad passed when I was two in a car accident. And I was like, my mom didn't have a lot of money.
She didn't know about the stock market. I was like, but she did one thing right. She had me. And so, you know, when I was 13 and I broke her down from selling drugs, I just, I just never wanted to disappoint. I was like, I want to make sure I'm the best investment that my mom has made. And so that's like my driving force. I'm getting emotional even thinking about it.
Oh, man, that's another one that, man, you got all emotional stuff bubbling up. Let's go, Jay. You know, that was my cousin who, you know, you know, just that episode was deep to me because, you know, I had dropped out of school. Most people don't know that when I had made six figures in the stock market. I'm like, what am I going to go back to school for?
Yeah, I'm like, I'm richer than anybody with a degree at 21. I'm just going to be an engineer. I'm like, engineers are making like $80,000. I'm like, I made over $100,000 not working. So I dropped out of school. And what most people don't know, too, is I ran that account up to about $300,000, moved out to the suburbs, partied for a couple years, all that stuff, bought a Lexus.
And then year three, I'm like 25. I actually risked a quarter million dollars trying to make half a million dollars. I lost it all. So I'm flat broke. I have to move back to the hood in Detroit, back to the house with bars on and back in with my mom, which is a very humble point in my life. And so it comes full circle to you saying, what were those six words? At that time, I said, I got to do it.
Only I know what to do is go back and get a job. And so I got a job at Verizon Wireless selling cell phones. And I was like, all right, I'm going to base my lifestyle off the hourly and I'm going to use my commission checks to get back into the stock market. And at the time they had tuition reimbursement because, mind you, I dropped out of school.
So I'm not eligible for any scholarships and stuff like that again. And so they had tuition reimbursement. So I'm working full time. I'm going to school. I'm trying to invest and build myself back up. And, you know, my my pseudo senior year, I guess, like my second time being a senior in college going part time this time because I switched to finance from engineers. I switched majors.
I'm like, no, I know what I want to be. It was just a really tough time going to school, battling living back at home, being broke after living high for so long. My cousin calls me. I'm sitting in the driveway. Well, we didn't have a driveway. I'm sitting in front of the house. And my cousin called me. She's like, how you doing? And I just vented. I'm like, I'm tired of school.
I think I'm going to drop out. I don't need a degree anyway with where I'm going. I just was just tired. And I was fatigued. And the six words was, he was just like... Boy, it ain't even about you. So that's what my cousin said to me. And I said, boy, it ain't even about you.
And she said, you don't know what young black man, what person from that neighborhood need to see you finish, need to see you get the degree so that, you know, you can inspire them and get them hope that they can do it. And for the first time, I was just like. I don't know. I thought she was going to be like, it's okay or take a break if you need to. She was like, boy, it ain't even about you.
You better finish that. It shocked my system because that's not what I was expecting. Sympathy and all this and that. She just said, boy, it ain't even about you. Those words really resonated with me. They stick with me to this day when I want to quit or I'm tired or I don't feel like shooting a video or doing a podcast. I'm like, It ain't even about you. You don't know who go hear this, see this.
Let's go get inspired. Let's go push them to keep going. When I lose money, if you look at my channel, I only talk about when I make money. I got videos like I lost $50,000. I lost $100,000. Because if you don't talk about that stuff, somebody thinks you just come on and hit home runs every time you press the button. He has the Midas touch. All he does is make money.
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