Rickey Smiley

Uh, I wake up just to do that.

You know, um, it's a responsibility.

It's something that you have to do.

It's something, it's my life.

It's what I, it's who I am, you know, giving and helping and mentoring is who I am as a person.

Yeah.

And, uh, you know, uh,

Our job is to bless people and to help people.

Help people, bless people, mentor people, because life is not just about you.

That's right.

People did not make everything about them.

Our grandparents and parents and great uncles and teachers, they made personal sacrifices so we could have what we have.

And you just have to pay it forward.

And that's why you live.

You know, wake up every day to serve God and to do God's work.

You know, start out my morning show with praise break.

You know, the first 14 minutes of the show is just giving God the praise.

And, you know, a lot of times God puts you in certain positions so he can see what you're going to do with it and so he can see if he can trust you.

And I told God a long time ago, hey, if you get me out of this rut right here, I promise you I'll serve you to the day I die and try to make somebody's life better because of the things that you blessed me with.

But we have to also understand that...