 But he might be right. I can't tell him that he won't cuz I ain't the type of person that's gonna break a child's spirit like That's true. That's true enough about me J.O.N We've been going crazy over here on this black market cuz I told you I know people and no people that know the people that I know You see what I'm saying so it go all the way around and come back So when you walking through the black market and you didn't did your shopping you know when you got something to eat You didn't got your legal they're all less situated and went outside got your blood work done You had funnel cakes and coffee, you know, we have all type of interest that people stop through the black market and let us know What they got going on and today is no different. Come on, man I don't know if you've been sleeping or if you know what's going on But you know, I'm really big into the marketing game. That's why you see all I'm marketing right now So I called up one of the experts in the field None other than my man Tarell He happens to be an expert in the field of such Trust me. I know this don't don't worry about what I got going on Just appreciate the people that I'm bringing through here. See this whole purpose of this to educate J.O.N. about education He went to Tennessee, you know, they school Yeah, that's it's not family is not what's up, Tarell? What's up? I'm good. I'm good to the black market pleasure to be here Oh, man, all the time. Pleasure to be down. What's been up work life? All of it, man. I got two pages I'm shocked it's not They got it highlighted in yellow. I love it. All of it make movies. You don't want NAACP awards Yeah, come on, man Motivational speaker all of that. I Didn't give you no more credit So it started actually not wanting to be in corporate America work. Yeah corporate America do to you man Nothing. I think more than anything. It wasn't in my spirit, man. I was an entrepreneur from Nihai had a barber shop in the basement used to cut lawns. I'm from Wisconsin Right black people do live in Wisconsin. Yeah, they do a lot of great And so I used to shovel snow snowblow all of that. So it was about, you know being self-sufficient I got a twin sister. So I was always kind of having to figure it out for my myself But then you know, you go to college you do what you supposed to do get a degree get a job Get in the corporate America Once I got there. I was like, yeah This ain't quite it It felt restricted. I was like an IT and then Worked, uh, yeah early, but you missed No, no, I got all the money. No, no, no I was right in the middle of the boom. I was right in the middle of the boom. See, I'm well first That's why they do this. Yeah. Yeah, cuz I see he wouldn't it wouldn't really hit like that at first Then he real hard Nice straight, but you know it ain't like it ain't what it used to be. Thank you So I was back in 1996-07 see that's one nineteen ninety-nine That was probably the peak of that shit. Yes, people don't even know people don't even know Most people don't know. Yeah So it was good life was good I Was doing well, but you know what? Every day what happened I would go home and my heart would hurt like physically I would feel pain Because I was like this ain't it for me And so while I was at I was at this company the software company. I started my agency it wasn't but four of us and We we didn't really know what we were doing But I said, you know what I wanted to do something new and different so we stretched out as an entrepreneur I put some money down and we started doing stuff the key to it was I Felt better right like cutting deals Negotiating things and the reality of it was because I was what they call a passionpreneur It wasn't like I was so anxious to get the money. I had the SAP Software I shouldn't said them, but I had the money coming in from my software side so I could just focus on doing the kind of business I wanted to do and It worked out. I mean they worked out so good that I mean the company grew super fast And then we jumped in the movies with two of my frat brothers on my alpha So it will pack her a raw party I do then we then we did some stuff with Tyler Very So we did some work with Tyler Perry we handled all the CNN black in America's we did house of pain meet the brown We started doing movies hand over fist a big deal with Sony Pictures Six or seven films we did with them Six or seven and then it blew up They let me put out a press release and then it went to 300 films and we did over 300 marketing campaigns. We launched power Blackish Empire Celebrity apprentice the agency record for NBC Universal and all of that was wonderful, but It was it was wonderful, but as you get into it you start seeing that there's more and bigger opportunity But the key to it like I tell everybody's like you got to become an expert at something Like people got to know you for something and most people knew us because of film and television marketing But then once it hit we kind of began to cut over but we cut over real high So Walmart came in then general meals AT&T So it's all some of the biggest brands because they saw what we were doing in film and TV and they started giving us more and more deals And it was good. It was good. So the company grew Demeterre's something special And it's a good for you to hear so then 2018 2017 2018 I was diagnosed with cancer and It changed everything like My mind went to spaghetti Like what are you? What do you do? You think like I've done every I've done all you know I've accomplished my dreams not the first point was like You know, what happens when you you know, you got a dream. What happens when you hit your dream? Like everything is popping that happened in around 2014 everything was popping We I everything I wanted to accomplish all the employees the clients we had hit all the right marks and I was like, okay, what do we do next and Somebody told me that's like, bro. You got to create a new dream Like if you if you hit all those marks your dream wasn't big enough So you got to start something else. You got to do something else something different So that's why it says filmmaker and motivational speaker and Philanthropists and tech entrepreneur like I started doing other stuff Because I was like this ain't enough just to say, okay, I Accomplished this I got to move to the next but then like I said 2018 I was diagnosed with cancer totally mess me up My whole mind and body was like, okay, what do I do now God? Like I did everything you wanted me to do. I you know, I've been married. I was married. They had two girls beautiful daughters I want my only desire was to walk them girls down the aisle. Like I love my wife. Don't get me wrong You know, she's great, but my girls I was like, oh man so That was a that was a turning point. That's when you stop and evaluate all levels of life So everybody on the show that they got a wife Everybody got a wife catch up Yeah, you remember you said that oh, yeah, cuz when I do get a wife almost my wife you motherfuckers My days And I've been married 20 22 years. I've been with my wife 31 years 31 years 31 years That's crazy real talk Number one, you better have some good game number two But more than anything, you know, you got to find you the right one. Yeah, and I found the right one Believe But no, I'm happy man Okay, that's good. That's a good question. So number one for me for me We were equally yoked what I believed she believed Number one, we were equally yellow equally yoked number two Like he had my back, but it was it was the hardest Like I got you I ever felt That she was constantly pushing me forward and she never would let me slip back and that meant something to me Because other people they concerned about you know what they gonna get out of a situation how they see things going She was like, uh-uh, I'm with you, brother. You make that decision. All right, I'm gonna support you now She'd ask questions everyone we're gonna ask questions. Okay, how this gonna work, blah, blah, but she was like, okay All right, I see you. I got you. Let's go. Let's get it and that felt good because You know always, you know, you want a cheerleader, but you want somebody that really got your back Not somebody that's just over there rah rah rah, but somebody's gonna sit with you in the hard times and the good times, right? And then I would say finally, I mean, I couldn't imagine life without her Right, like I started looking at her differently. Like I don't know what this would be If you weren't here, you better after 31 years with the same woman. Trust me. You ain't ready for them Yeah, yeah, you got one you ain't heard nothing about what he knew was doing. I don't need to know He ain't nobody doing good rappers even losing they win. I'm they rich It don't matter man. It don't matter. It used to be about the money. No, I don't matter No, no, it's all real bad and they don't get that Be up all night drinking Hennessy by the ballers Smoky hooker rolling big fat ass backwood Peel want to purge they can damn they only drink water. I don't know where they came from. Oh, gee I'm telling I'm good on that telling you this you got to be built for this Enjoy I'm with you know, they have Man what can they get in touch with you and catch up on some of these things you got going on Well, I got a lot going on, but I mean my company is liquid soul go liquid soul calm geo liquid soul calm I'm on Instagram Facebook IG LinkedIn Terrell Whitley You on there I'm on there because you know 31 years your page probably private you take No, I'm on there I'm on there and I'm accessible like I try to Say though because it's like I had to get that game from because she has good game. I saw you. Yeah, I see Yeah, that is some good game. I know the young brothers and they're gonna they might catch it They might not somebody need to hear so I wanted to make sure I would be remissed if I didn't also mention that Years ago two of the people that work with you were my interns were yeah, you shouldn't let them go. Well Yeah, one of them did it to himself No, Chad Chad. Yeah, well you just Chad so Chad and Ryan both came through liquid soul They were part of our internship competition A little bit of story a Chad was the first intern to get fired But you know what Sad Exceeded he's the first one to get fired. He's probably the most exceptional one that we've ever had come through I don't know what happened. It's like overnight. He changed. He went from ain't shit employees to a great Executive handling business and executing. I've known chassis. He was 17 18 years old first job. We worked that he wasn't shit Second job I'm not giving you no more job It good today. They good now and Ryan Ryan was the most creative so Ryan Came into our internship his submission video was a karaoke video I would never forget it. He did karaoke To introduce himself to the entire company and everybody came to my office. It was like this is so horrible, but we love it Karaoke, but we love the fact that he put himself out there like that He ain't knowing them better He probably did he probably was going off his instincts, but it was trying shit. It worked for I believe it's the follow-up. So shout out to Chad and Ryan for not being good at their first job Man, I'm so glad y'all had him first and not the other way around Man, they were his destiny. They were always gonna be here, bro. Good. I appreciate you giving them a opportunity Absolutely, but if it weren't for me and you They still be with Steve Steve meaning He made it in me. He weighed me in it in me Yeah But I appreciate you man. So we're gonna make sure drop the social media one more time so they can get you at Terrell Whitley LinkedIn Instagram Facebook. I don't do Twitter anymore. I'm over Twitter any advice you got for the next generation of Terrell with this coming. Yeah. Yeah, I do number one have some high integrity number two be Accountable at all times and number three be excellent at everything that you do. Like that's it right there. Yeah So, hey jail here Like market is open, baby