 What's up everybody once again, it's Brandman Sean and this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself. Now I've got a very special interview, snippet from an interview I did with none other than Cash Mace. He is a singer, songwriter, all around artist and his pin game is heavy. He calls himself Benjamin Franklin so that gives you an idea how seriously he takes his writing. But in this clip right here, it's about the sacrifices he made. It's a full story to get a song with Tory Lane's and it's something you might want to keep in mind for yourself. There's nuances to it. It's the network. Me, I moved out here and I ran to somebody I knew from college and he hung out around a certain group. You know how Atlanta is. Atlanta is more who you know, not what you know and he hung around a certain group. He introduced me to some cool guys. So I started hanging out with them and we took trips to Miami, blah, blah, but come to find out one of them was a friend of mine now. He ended up being friends with somebody that's part of Tory Lane's team. And so he would always feed him, you need to hear Cash Mace, you need to hear Cash Mace. He's nice. And so he sent them a couple songs and he was like, oh bro, it's dope. And he was like, oh, yeah, they were vibing to it and he was like, yeah, he's dope, man. We need to figure something out. And so like that happened like a year ago, like when I first moved here and they came, he came back like a month later and was like, yeah, yeah, here's the price. And I was like, there's no way that's happening. He came back with the feature price and I was like, yeah, about that. But that happened and then they came back for Winterfest, you know, and I was like in December and they came back December of last year and we got invited to Winterfest. So he was backstage, he was on stage with Tory and it was a good time, man. He's a cool dude, man, but they invited us to that. And then finally I was like, you know what? I need to figure this out. I'm gonna come up with that money. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna come up with it because we end up going to the club with them the whole nine and the person out that like my music, I was part of the team that said he could make it happen. He was like, what's up, man? Like, yeah, you want to make it happen? Like, I was like, yeah, I want to make it happen, whatever, just let me get back to you. I'm gonna make this happen. I'm gonna figure it out. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna make it happen though because like for me, I believe in myself so much and I believe in my playing game. I believe in my talent. I'm not willing to go to the end of the world and back for it. And on top of that, me, I believe one of the most talented artists in the game is Tori Lanez, period. One of the most versatile artists, one of the most talented artists in the game is Tori. And I was just like, who could I pair up with that I could make a hit with? And I was like, it's Tori Lanez. If it's not Drake, Drake's an automatic hit. That's an automatic hit if it's Drake. And obviously Drake's out of reach for a lot of people. But I was like, Tori, I was like, if me and Tori get on the track together, it's gonna be a smash. It's gonna be a definite smash. And so me, I went out and I tried to, I seek one sponsor because I got some friends that do real estate business and things like that. And so I was just like, hey, bro, I came up with a contract with him and was like, hey, if you do this, you get a percentage of this, blah, blah, whatever else. But then the other thing I did was I sold my car, I sold my car, bro. I sold my car. I was just like, you know what, this opportunity, this might be my only opportunity to get a song with him. He was about to go on tour with Drake. And so I was like, you know what, his prices are gonna probably go up. They're already giving me a kind of a deal off of the muscle, off of the strength, you know what I'm saying? So I was just like, I've got to come up with this. And so for me, went to the bank, bank said, okay, this car is ours now. I was like, all right, it's yours, give me the cash. Yeah. And so, you know, that happened, I hit up the team member and he was like, all right, come down to Miami. We gonna be in the studio on this day. Let's do it. And so, you know, we popped up, me and my team, we popped up and Tori was like, all right, I'll record yours in the next five minutes. He was working on a song that, a song he had with Tiger, he was working on some other stuff. He was like, I'm gonna get to yours like in 10 minutes or something like that. Literally, he listened to the beat for two minutes. And when I say this man went in the booth and recorded his verse in five minutes. Five minutes. Yeah. Done. Done. And in my mind, I'm just like, hey, you might want to take a little more time on that. I just gave you my life, bro. Like, hey, I can't do everything I have, bro. You don't want to proofread that verse? Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to go back and do like an edit or something. I don't know, bro. Like, I just gave you my life and you took my life in five minutes. Yo, that's wild. But with a sharp note, was it something like? Yeah. Hey, he killed it. I got a little piece on my, it's on my page. You know, I got a little piece of it in the studio. But no, he killed it. He killed it. I was like, soon as soon as the beat came on and I heard him, I was like, smash. I already knew I was like, smash. The way he answered the song, I was like, smash. It's over. I mean, that's like, he's a beast man. He's one of those. Like you said, he's one of the most talented man. Like the pain game, those artists are different because I mean, it's one thing to just do the freestyle thing or whatever, but like he, for real rights, he writes people who make like, who are not even in a genre. You know what I mean? That's what I'm saying. Like for me, I was like, that's why I was able to, that's why I took that chance, bro. Cause I was just like, I believe in myself so much. But I was just like, you know what? I want to put myself on somebody, on a song with somebody else that I feel like I'm in that bracket. It's the network. All right. So I hope that clip bought perspective and insight on a really serious thing that a lot of artists go to, a lot of people who are trying to be successful and music go to and really your life in general. And that's just the sacrifices that are often times necessary to get to where you want. And by any means necessary, it's a real thing. A lot of people say it, but they don't really prescribe to it because they say, oh man, I'm afraid it is happening. I'm afraid of that happening. But at the end of the day, you have to couple by any means necessary with betting on yourself. That's trusting yourself to be able to move and handle any situation that comes. So if you make some of these sacrifices and decisions, you bet that you can recover from them if necessary, or you bet that you can make the right decisions based on whatever new circumstances come. A lot of people don't have that second size. So even though it sounds good to say they bet on themselves, they don't actually bet on themselves. And here's a perfect example, right? Cash sacrificed his car. Okay. Cool. So that's just a strategy, right? Or a tactic. That's a bet, period. Betting on yourself is realizing what if sacrificing his car didn't work. What if selling his car didn't work? He still wasn't able to get the sample or the song ends up being trash or just doesn't blow up, right? Betting on yourself looks like still trusting that you're going to figure it out. Even though this one thing that you did didn't actually happen like you wanted it to. What I see from a lot of people is they try these like one-off things or make these big bets or try these huge risks where it seems like, oh, they're betting on themselves, but really they're betting on the outcome. They're betting on that thing because that doesn't work. They pretty much give up. And the people who are betting on themselves are making those types of decisions again and again, betting on themselves to be able to recover or navigate and handle whatever new situation arises. For me, a perfect example was I actually had this job years ago, right? And I wanted another job and it was a company I was applying for and I sent in my application. I decided I was going to work at that job like in a summertime. Let's just say the summer. I can't remember the exact month. Let's just say May or whatever. And then I sent in an application, didn't get a response, sent in another application, didn't get a response because I kept on seeing them get like job inquiries up. And then eventually I was like, you know what? All right. Cool. They're not feeling me. They're not feeling my application. I got to figure out a way to get to these people. I don't even know if someone's actually reading my application or the right people are seeing it. So with my job that I currently had, I took a break and I saw I was in Atlanta, by the way. All right. I saw that these people, the CEO of the company I wanted to be at was actually going to be at a conference in San Francisco. The company was in Atlanta that I wanted to work with but they were going to be at a conference in San Francisco giving some people on this team. I paid to get to that conference in San Francisco, right? And met those people there, some people on the team who were in charge of hiring and things like that to then come back to Atlanta and I actually got that job. I'm not going to even go into full details, but I made that jump and hope that it would work out. Met those people there and then was able to actually make that happen where before when I was going to traditional route, it just didn't happen. And Cash Mace, when you see his full interview, check that out on a brandmannetwork.com. This dude has made several decisions like that that have worked out. Some of them didn't cost that much money or anything. It just took a certain mentality to approach. You'll see what I mean, especially one of his six-figure bets. Well, he made six figures off of that bet as well. Now, two other examples that I got to mention though that are beautiful examples are Sylvester Salon and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sylvester Salon, this dude loved his dog. He bet his dog in trying to make the first Rocky movie happen. And he even got some offers for the Rocky movie, right? For like 100K and he turned those down because he wanted to be in it, which is different. He could have sold it as a writer and they would have got some other movie star to be in it. But he said, nah, I want to be in it. I need to be the star character. And he turned down 100K being homeless. And then they offered him more. They were like, nah. And then they offered him more. He was like, nah, they offered. I can't remember the exact number. They offered him up to like 500, 800K. And he was still saying, nah, man. If I'm not the person in this movie, right? Then I'm not for it. And he ended up taking way less front end money just to be the star of the movie. And literally that movie sparked his entire career. Went on to be one of the highest paid movie stars, a huge legend in his era. Even if you don't know who he is, you might have heard about the Rocky movies in the Rocky series. Now that's where Creed is. Creed, Creed II. I'm sure you might know those movies. That's all from the Rocky series. And he's owner of that as well. And then Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm not going to even go too deep into this dude's story. But this dude was basically in the army in his country, right? And he was on base and everything. He dipped out the base at nighttime just to go to a bodybuilding competition and then get back, like slip back onto the base hoping that he didn't get discovered. He did get discovered. But he had this dream of being a bodybuilder and he bet on himself to make that happen. If you look at his story, I'll put a link to his story in the description below because he tells it on YouTube and it's not even that long of a video. Trust me. It's adult inspiration. From the Arnold Schwarzenegger snippet to the full interview with Cashmase, when you look at people who are betting on themselves to get to a certain place, it's not a one-off thing. You're constantly betting on yourself again and again because all these bets do not work out. I know these are cool, pretty nice bowtie stories and all that stuff, but they don't always work out. But if you let one not working out deter you from continuing to make certain bets, then you're not betting on yourself. You're just betting on some other type of outcome. You're hoping this advice that you got worked. So you're betting on somebody else or you're betting that these other people pick you and they see you. So you're betting on a moment or something that is outside of yourself. Betting on yourself is a constant thing and it's one of the most constant things that I've seen when it comes to people who are successful in the music industry. 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