 Instagram, TikTok, including threads at Y2 for 4channel. On Instagram, it's Y2 for 4 underscore channel. By the way, we are verified with a blue check mark. And you can find me as well at a brand so-called 101. Now in this segment, live in studio with us, we have a very powerful guest in the studio, who is going to actually take us to his journey, the trials and the triumphs of walking through so many careers, but all the way from San Jose in California, from the United States of the America. We're being joined live right here in studio by the one and the only Aaron Phillips. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you. Nice to meet you in person. Hey, this is awesome. Thank you so much for the invite, man. Karibusana, are there some Swahili words that you've already learned? You know what, I'm terrible at learning like new languages and whatnot, but everybody's telling me, you got to learn Swahili. I'm going to learn. I'm going to. Akuma Matata. Akuna Matata? Akuma Tata. Yes. I love the way you said Akuma Tata. It's like one of the common Swahili words. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lion King. United States, there's a movie called Lion King. I always talk about that. Right. That's where they have the phrase, Akuna Matata. That's how you guys pronounce it. I know, right? Right. Basofasagur Karibu to Kenya. Karibu means welcome. Karibu, thank you. Thank you. So Karibusana. I appreciate that. Thank you. So let's get to know you a little bit. Yes, I've introduced you, come from the United States of the Americas. Yes. They're great. Well, Obama is there. Obama, yeah. So just a little story about you. How did you start up? Why did you grow up in America? Absolutely. And how did you end up in the tech world as well? Crazy, right? It's crazy, right? So I grew up in the Bay Area, which is like San Francisco Bay Area. Okay. And I'm a child of the 60s and 70s. You know, grew up kind of poor. You know, we didn't really have a whole lot. You know, a lot of people look at me right now and they think, oh man, he can't relate to like what people's struggles are. Trust me, we struggled big time. But it was okay. We had a lot of love in our family. You know, the area that I lived in, it was diverse, it was a little diverse. So it helped me in my career to be able to understand people. I graduated from high school and I'm dyslexic. That's the one of the things that I always point out in all the interviews is I'm dyslexic. And I had a lot of issues growing up, learning issues. You know, it prevented me from finishing college, which was, you know, disappointing in a way because I'm one of those guys that always had high drive. I knew I was gonna be successful. But it was okay. I didn't understand what it was because being dyslexic is a little challenging. There's different levels of being dyslexic. But you know what? I always had a drive that I was gonna be successful. No matter what I was gonna do, I was gonna be successful. So I got into the environmental industry. So I ended up cleaning up chemical spills, if you guys can believe that. I went to Alaska cleaning up chemical spills out in the frozen tundra, which was amazing. But you studied for that course as well. A course in chemistry. Actually, what happened is that while I was working that job, I learned that the guys that made the most money were the chemists. And see, I didn't finish college. So I had to teach myself chemistry just to be able to get that promotion. And I did. Took me about a year and a half to figure it out. But I got it. And from that point on, I didn't look back. I started working for the Department of Energy. I worked at Stanford University, you know, very at a very young age, about 24 years old. I always had a high drive, guys. So you have to understand, I never wanted to settle for just, you know, working there was a good job. I was married at the time. My ex-wife thought I was crazy because that I wanted to leave that job. But I knew I was gonna stay there only a couple of years because I just wanted the experience. I didn't care about the money or anything like that. And then that- Was it a toxic job or something? It was. So that particular position was, I used to clean up the spills at the site, but I used to write up reports for the government. So it was Department of Energy. So I worked with the Department of Energy. So there was a little bit. But my background in training and in the industry, we always were very safe. Because in that industry, you had to make sure you take care of yourself. But let's fast forward. I ended up working, say, 17 years for a company, a startup company, an environmental company. And from that point on, I never looked back. I mean, I knew that that environmental was gonna be my industry. It was gonna take me where I wanted to go. We got bought out by a large company. I ended up leaving like 2000, start my own consulting firm about 2003, 2000. No, actually, it was more like 2008. And from there, I started working for a recycling company, a metal recycling company. I became the CEO of the company, worked there for a few years with my consulting company. And then from that point, I moved over to Tesla. Now, Tesla, boom, my claim to fame and life. Let me tell you guys- And you got a chance to work with Elon Musk. I used to have to meet with Elon Musk every two weeks. So literally every two weeks, we'd have a skip level meeting, which means that my manager at the time was a guy named Greg Rykow. He was like the CEO of Tesla, didn't have it, but he was like second in command. And I worked for him. So Elon wanted to meet with everybody's, all his direct reports. So he had probably 15 direct reports. So every two weeks, we'd have to sit down. Let me tell you something about Elon Musk. Okay. But he worked there as a global senior manager. For a part called environmental sustainability. I was in charge of global sustainability for the Fremont factory for China, for the Netherlands, the remanufact facility there. So I had my team, I had 400 people underneath me, about 14 managers globally. So yeah. But one thing about working with Elon, Elon doesn't, he doesn't care about PowerPoints. He doesn't care about what you say you can do. He just cares about getting things done. All right. And again, I'm gonna curse a little bit. He always say, get shit done. And that's what our team did. We got shit done. We made sure that Tesla was, when I started with Tesla, they were kind of a brown company, weren't green. They were a brown company, but my team ended up just turning the corporation around. We won awards there. Even Elon acknowledged our group, which is very difficult. For Elon to acknowledge you, it's a really, really big deal. He never got a name of our group, right? But he did acknowledge us. And everybody at the factory knew he was talking about us. But yeah, he was quite the person that I could say, I'm not gonna say I looked up to him, because again, he's a very difficult person to work for. But I didn't mind- Very difficult? Very difficult. He would fire you. Well, I mean, one of our first meetings I had with him, I didn't know him at the time. He came in and just went off everybody in the room. And I didn't realize why I was even in the room, to be honest with you. And yeah, it's a pretty interesting story. I'll leave it for another time, but yeah. All right, I'm just trying to also look at what you were doing at Tesla. Member of the executive factory management team for air emissions, meaning that there was like a production site where they had this going on. Yeah, yeah. So one of the things about me is that I'm very good at a lot of things, but I easily bring in, you know, subject matter experts. So we, one of our responsibility was air emissions, was hazardous waste, was trash, was recycling, was, you know, we were in charge of anything that was a byproduct of the factory, we were in charge of managing it, you know, keeping the KPIs, making sure that we had the regulatory agencies off our back, because trust me, in California, there's tons of regulations. What's that? Carbon regulations. Carbon regulations, yes, absolutely. Carbon footprint, basically anything. It was, it came through our group. Right. Somebody who's watching this conversation, they would wonder, how at Tesla, are they having carbon emission? Where is this carbon coming from? And yet it's all about- Okay, so think about it. Electric vehicles, right. Like paint, for it, when you paint the cars, there's organic material that, you know, that gets admitted into the atmosphere. So you have to be able to capture that when you're in the painting process. There's waves of like thermal units that capture that organic material so it doesn't become carbon or go carbon to the air. And we release a small amount. You know, we're really good. In California, where I'm at, California is highly regulated. So we have air emissions that, say, Texas doesn't have, that you really have to be, everything has to be permitted. It's just, it's one of the most difficult states, but it's one of the best states too. But it's one of the most difficult states for a business to run a business like a big, huge manufacturing facility because of the regulations. Interesting. In your scope of experience, comparing like where you worked at, maybe now Kenya from what you've read and what you've known, maybe is there like a comparison to where maybe Kenya is rising up when it comes to also doing something like carbon control and emissions? So I don't know a lot. So I'm learning. That's one of the reasons why I'm here about what the policies are or whatnot. I know I'm gonna be meeting with some government people to talk about that, to talk about like renewable energy and whatnot. So I can't really give you a clear answer on that yet, but I will. That's one of the reasons why I'm here. Okay. All right. Before we talk about dyslexia, you've also worked for other several companies and let me just point it a little bit so that you talk about it. You are chief operations officer at the American Metal Inc. So what was happening in this company? Because there's a lot of also scrap, scrap metal companies that collect scrap metals. And then it has again to go to like waste management. So please talk about it as well. Absolutely. Absolutely. So when I started my consulting business, there was this guy. He knew my reputation and in the environmental industry, everybody knows who you are. So if you talk to people in California, they knew who I am. I've been doing it for a long time and we're highly regulated. So there isn't any kind of shenanigans. You got it. Like if you pick up some waste, you have to manage it properly. It's documented. You can't say, hey, I'm gonna go throw this. I'm gonna take this acid and I'm gonna treat it and neutralize it and dispose of it and then go bury it somewhere. We have regulations. In the metal industry, the metal recycling industry is a little bit different because there isn't these regulations because it's not technically hazardous. So the guy who owned the company was Howard. He hired me to come in, to basically bring the value of his company up. And I had no idea. He offered me a ton of money to leave my business to go work for him. He just offered me this crazy money. But what I realized is two years later, he sold the business and I brought his value up and his company, because I'm very good at metrics and very good at organization. It's system management. I'm real good at that. So that's what I did. I turned his company around. So that was actually really good for me because it gave me some experience in the understanding sustainability to a certain extent and recycling metal to a certain extent. So it was a good experience. It was really a dream job. I came in, organized his company. I think the company was worth about 40 million before I started and then he ended up selling the company for $65 million when it was all said and done. So that really, it just, it's a testament to my career. So every career that I've ever worked at, I learned a little bit and I brought it to the next company. I brought it to the next level. You know, I basically leveled up on everything. So that American Metal and Iron, it catapulted me into Tesla because Tesla had everything that was in the American Metal and Iron. Everything we did there, they did there, but they just didn't have the process to set up. They didn't have the organization. They didn't have the people. They didn't have the trucks. They didn't have all the things that we ended up putting in place later on. So that was a, I loved that job. I loved it. Right. Now when you compare the growth of industries for the American experience and what we have here in Africa, do you feel like Africa is still on that trajectory of maybe trying to discover what they're good at and what they're not good at? And then when it comes to also mitigating things like air pollution, the stories like climate change, recently they're going to have actually a meeting where they're going to have officials from each and every country to talk about that. When you compare the conversations that are being heard in your country, and maybe Africa, do you feel like we are there? And when it comes to also mitigating Africa, we're mitigating or what is the problem with Africa now that you have this experience looking at it from an American perspective? Yeah, so we've been doing it long. I mean, the bottom line, I mean, when it comes to say regulations, cause new energy, it's like we've been doing it longer. So we're not quite there. So we're still, I mean, even though it's as vast as we are, we still have a long way to go. When I'm finding out in Africa, there's a lot of great ideas and great minds here. That's why I'm so excited to be in Kenya. You guys said this is my first time in Africa. So it's coming to Kenya. And just certain individuals that I've talked to, just some basic conversation, I don't know exactly, again, and I don't want to skirt the question or whatever, but really, if I don't know, I'm gonna tell you I don't know, but I'm gonna learn. I'm gonna find out, this is what this trip is for. It's for me to learn to meet, to find out, what is it that I can bring, as far as my experience, because I have experience in everything, in air, in water, out of the place. Yeah, I mean, almost 40 years I've been doing this. So I have experience in just about a little bit of everything. I know people who know people who know people. So it's like what can I do to help Kenya get to that next level when it comes to environmental, when it comes to climate change, when it comes to renewable energy, when it comes to sustainability, what can I do to help Kenya get there? All right. And it's interesting because last week on Monday, we were actually marking a national youth day, which the thing for this year was green skills for sustainable economy. I love that. Let's also get back to your country. Maybe when it comes to also things like carbon control, other things like air pollution and many other aspects of that. Like in your country, what are some of the tools that you guys use to control maybe things like air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution, which is actually part of the environment as well for companies, especially tech companies. Please talk about that. So in the United States, we have a group called the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA. So the EPA regulates water discharge, the air regulations. They regulate basically toxicity with chemicals or certain ratings that they give processes. So if you're a business, and again, I'm gonna talk about California guys because what your viewers understand, in the United States, it's not the same everywhere. So every state is a little bit different. My state is highly regulated. We have regulations in the state of California that are beyond the federal regulations. So beyond what Washington says, what Biden and all those guys say or the EPA say, we have our own EPA in the state of California. So if you're a business like a Tesla, you're gonna have to follow the regulations that the feds say that you have to follow and then you have to follow the regulations of the state. So one thing about the feds is the feds say, okay, who are the polluters? What is causing all this pollution? Well, typically it's industrial or it's individuals, cars, just say cars. So they're gonna regulate the emissions of the cars. Like for instance, in California, you have to have a smog check on your car. It has to pass a smog check. If it doesn't pass, you can't get your registration and you'll get fined and a whole bunch of other things. So if you have an older car that won't pass a smog check, they're gonna force you to get an abatement device for your car. It sounds harsh, but really it's the reason why California drives the nation when it comes to the environmental regulations. So there's many things. There's caps they put on how much carbon that you can release with your company. There's a ton of things that they do to regulate and again, it just all depends on what we're talking about. We're talking about water discharges. There's local agencies that regulate how much solids that can be released into the water system, how much chemicals, the type of chemicals that can be released. There's certain levels. When we were at Tesla, we had five huge, like 500,000 gallon tanks, the treatment tanks that we'd have to treat every single day, our water, our water treatment. We'd have to test it on site to make sure that it didn't have the metals in there or the solids before we could discharge it. And if it did, we have to re-treat it and re-treat it before we could discharge it. So those are some of the things that I know that Kenya does. I'm gonna take a look at a lot of that, but I know that that's a lot of similar things. I'm sure that there's a lot of discharge that they have on those regulations, but I'm gonna find out, I'm gonna find out. Definitely should be the same path. I would think so, definitely, it's the way to go. Right, for someone who is watching, because Tesla is a big production of electric vehicles as well, but then somebody would say electric vehicle, how is it emitting carbon? How is it polluting the air? Because definitely there's no combustion engine. Yeah, that's a good question. So there's a big debate about, okay, how green are electric cars? Because right now, when you think about this, how do you charge the battery? Well, typically it's a carbon, it's a coal generator somewhere that produces energy that recharges your battery. So how do you take an electric car that's supposed to be green, but you're using a dirty process, a dirty process to generate the energy? How do you make that make sense? Well, here's how you make it make sense. So we gotta start somewhere, that's the thing. And one of the things that Elon always talked about, you got it, it's like that first step. The first step is let's produce the cars that are cleaner. When you say cleaner, they're not producing any carbon dioxide from the emissions, that's where most of, if you look at greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide is the most that's in the atmosphere. So we're eliminating the carbon dioxide. Now, what we have is in the process. So to make the car, it's a dirty process to make the car. When you paint it, just like we talked about earlier, there's emissions from the paint. And paint is chemicals as well. Paint is chemicals. When you make the parts, we're taking casting, metal castings, we're firing aluminum metal casting, and there's emissions that come from the actual smoke and from the fire from the casting. So again, that's admitting carbon into the air. So the answer to your question is that there's a dirty process in making it, but there's also a dirty process in charging it. But what's gonna happen in California, this is why I say California's a lot different than the rest of the United States. California's gonna ban gas-powered cars by selling the gas-powered cars by 2030. So what they want is they want renewable energy. We want wind, we want wind, solar, solar power, water. We want to get off the grid, get the dirty processes off the grid and use renewable energy. So now if you have renewable energy that are powering these cars, these cars that are now not emitting carbon dioxide into the air, the air is cleaner. It's a better process. But it all starts somewhere and this is the beginning phases of it. This is like tests that came along and revolutionized how we think about our transportation. So we're in the beginning stages. So we're not gonna really see the byproducts of all this amazing stuff that we're doing for us with the lithium batteries and everything else until later on, until things get cleaner. But this is the first started. This is the beginning part of it. And I think also Kenya, from our current president, just came into office recently. In his manifesto, actually, e-mobility is one of his big agenda. I love it. In a project called the Digital Super Highway, which is embracing EV vehicles. I love it. Motorcycles and so many other aspects and definitely get to see that part as you stay in Kenya. I love it, I love it. Do you feel like maybe it's the future? E-mobility is the future? Absolutely. I think in countries like in St. Africa, you'll see the continent of Africa, like I want to get ready to say we. I feel like I'm Kenyan. You already are Kenyan. I just wanna, I gotta say this, I gotta say this. I feel like I'm Kenyan, even though my father, my heritage is West Africa. My father was Nigerian actually. But I would have been adopted by the Kenyans. So I'm Kenyan, my heart is Kenyan. You have the hardest Kenyan. So I gotta say we. But I feel like that in Africa, there's so many resources here. Like the world turns to Africa for everything that they need. When it comes to Lithium, I remember Elon Musk came out here and I was gotta laugh and I was thinking to myself, Africa should just like, you know what? We ain't selling no more lithium until you guys build factories here and instead of shipping the lithium to outside Africa, it should be right here. Or like the coal ball, all the metals, all the precious metals that you need to make the batteries. It's not just lithium, it's a bunch of other stuff. But I really think that Africa could drive the world. I mean, and it should. And I like what you were saying, the initiative that the president, the new president has. That's amazing. That's where it starts. It's about education too. It's about getting people, because a lot of people don't understand, even in the United States, there's a big, huge pushback when it comes to renewable energy. It's politicized as a whole bunch of, it's just to me, it's just ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's what's best for the environment. I always tell people that, I used to tell my team at Tesla, I used to say, listen, if you guys are stuck, think about what the right thing to do is. We, our team was put together, not because it's this right thing to say or do, sustainability or everyone has sustainability. No, no, no. We were put together to clean up Tesla, to make Tesla a greener place and save the environment. I really believe that. I really believe that. I think that every car that gets produced and it replaces a gas-powered car that would have used fossil fuels is saving the environment. And that's what our job was. Right. I want us to shift gears a little bit, but as we sum up on that part, maybe if you can maybe highlight for us some of the most poisonous substances that are released by some of these tech companies, before we talk about DPX and green health solutions. You know what? I mean, there's a ton of things, because so the EPA has a bunch of different chemicals. So you have hazardous waste and then you have extremely hazardous waste. Now a lot of tech companies really don't, so it's in the process, like say when you make chips and whatnot, they use assets, they use base, they use some metals, there's some heavy metals that are in there. What's probably the, the tech industry really, it's more the industry that I think that's probably the biggest polluters I can say, it's more of the petro industry. There's a lot of organic material that gets released, the methane, the propane, the different gases that are getting released. So tech, there's e-waste that you guys know that you've heard about, that gets landfill, which is bad. It's probably, I'd say probably e-waste, the answer to your question is probably e-waste is probably the most, because e-waste has a lot of chemicals that break down like in the ground. So you think about throwing a computer away into the trash. Well, you know, you just throw it away, I'll set up my, but what happens is that when it gets into the ground, all the chemicals from the components from that were to make the computer, it leaches into the ground and it leaches into the groundwater and that's when we have a lot of issues. So, you know, I, again, answer your question, probably the e-waste in the tech industry, but just the biggest polluters is probably the petro industry. All right, absolutely, got it. Your company, Green Arts Sustainable Solution Inc, which is based in San Jose, California, please talk about it. Was it like maybe one of the companies that's come to the market to actually meet to get this conversation you're talking about? So when I was at Tesla, 2016, we certified the facility a zero-waste facility, which means that 90, so at one point we're at 99.3% of everything that we generated was either reused, repurposed, or recycled. Nothing went to land, well, a small amount of material went to landfill. It was a major accomplishment, okay, huge accomplishment. And I knew in 2006, I said, you know what, this is what I'm gonna do the rest of my life, because I enjoyed doing it. I figured that if I can certify Tesla, this monster facility, they have one of the largest manufacturing facilities, you know, on the West Coast, automotive facilities just ever, 10,000 employees, if I could certify this facility, I could certify any facility. And in 2006, I said, you know what, this is what I'm gonna do. So I left the company in 2017, took a year off. One thing about working at Tesla, I know I'm talking a lot about Tesla, one thing about working at Tesla, it's like a dog's life. They say dog's life is seven years. So if you worked there four years at 28 years, you worked for your company. It's that, they were so driven, so it was just a very difficult place to work at. So I knew that when I left the company, I was gonna start a company, do things a little bit differently, because Elon taught me a couple of things. He taught me two things. He taught me to take chances and don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of any challenge whatsoever. And then he also taught me how to not, not take care of your employees, because he was very difficult. The guy was, he was very, very, very difficult to work for. So I think I'm a little easier boss to work for, but same passion, the same drive that I had at Tesla, I have at my company. So in 2018 I founded Greener Sustainable Solution. We focus on zero waste. So we'll go to a company, we'll teach them how to take the trash that they landfill and either physical trash, so things that generate their production in their office. Take the physical trash and recycle it. Take the paper out. So landfill in the paper, take the paper out. The food waste, compost the food waste. If you're throwing away metals or e-waste or whatever, take all that out of your trash. Don't put it in landfill and let's find a process to actually recycle it. So now I have contracts with companies, big companies, that we manage everything for them. We managed all their trash. We managed all their plastic recycling, metal recycling. And I did it slowly. I couldn't went in there and just said, hey, I'm gonna go get all this business. But I wanted to build it very slow because I believe in scaling up. I don't wanna just get in there and get all this business and then not be able to be able to produce or maintain or I don't wanna look bad and put it that way. I have a lot of friends in the industry that helped me, that given me opportunities. And I did it slowly, very, very slowly. So green earth is my baby. I love sustainability. I love talking about the environment. I love talking about doing the right thing. This is my dream. And I knew in 2016 that this is gonna do the rest of my life. And I know a lot of you guys out there watching me right now. The thing about a career or what you do, you have to have passion. You can be in a bad situation and say to yourself, I'm in a bad situation. I don't wanna do this. I can't find a job and everything else and have this negative thought. But then take for granted the little jobs that you do, the little things that you do that can help you in a year from now, in two years from now to help you get that better job and understand. And that's again, that's always been my mentality. So at green earth, what I'm teaching, what I've taught a lot of my employees is like, look guys, we might not like what we do, but it's helping. And it's gonna help us move forward in our careers. I do trainings. I give trainings all the time. I always tell people, listen, if you learn zero waste and you say that you have a sustainability background, you can walk into any company and get a job doing almost anything in the United States. It's starting to turn here outside the United States. But inside the United States, if you say you have a sustainability background, you can get a job just a little bit. I can meet with just about anybody. You name the corporation and I can walk in that corporation and meet with them. I can get it. No, I don't want a job. I own a company. For the other person. Yeah, but I can go in there and they'll listen to what I have to say. And there's a big company. I can't say their name right now. You're gonna, I want you guys to follow me. Good, next two months. There's a huge company that I just have. I'm not gonna say I landed, but I have this opportunity that you guys are gonna hear this amazing project that I'm working on. There is Biggest Tesla. So just think about all the companies that are out there. There is Biggest Tesla. And I can't mention their name. That's not an NDA, but it's gonna be this monster project. And it's because, again, the passion that I had for the environment being able to articulate, this is what I believe in and this is what I'm gonna do for you. And it's possible. It's possible. There's nothing. Anything is possible. All right, and that brings me to DPX. According to me, it's like, what I understood from that is like a philosophy, which is I explained it as a bold approach to life, that these stands for dream, p, plan, X is a fancy way of executing. Yes, just say what you're saying or chill. Talk about it and how you're using it to advocate for all these costs that you have in terms of zero waste money. Thank you for, I'm so glad to run a DPX. DPX, guys, is my life. It is what I believe. It's when I wake up every day. Now I always tell people, you know that saying 24 seven? Well, me, it's 19 seven. I sleep five hours. I sleep about five hours a day. So for those 19 hours when I'm up, I'm thinking DPX. I'm at work, I'm thinking DPX. When I walk down the street, I think DPX. I mean, it's DPX. DPX is this, guys. So as I mentioned before, I was dyslexic growing up. I didn't know I was dyslexic. I didn't find I was dyslexic until I was in my 50s. Like maybe six years ago is when I found I was dyslexic. Yeah, just a little bit to get a little bit of traction on that. Maybe if you can explain what dyslexia is so that a person who is watching can understand you are dyslexic as a kid. So dyslexia is a learning disability. So people who are dyslexic, they're not mentally challenged or whatever. They're artistic. Even though when I was younger, I was put in a lot of these classes, put in special class classes. It's just a learning disability. That's something it's like these little things in your brain just don't, they don't catch. Like when it's learning, it really affects your reading, your writing, you know, spelling. Remembrance as well? Not so much remembrance. It's more just learning. And I think I'll give you some examples of how having dyslexia, it affected DPX. Okay, so DPX. And there's a lot of children that are dyslexic. There's a lot of people in life that are dyslexic and they don't know it. Even in Africa? Oh, absolutely in Africa. And the problem with that is being dyslexic and you don't know that. A lot of people judge you. They think, you know, because you're not smart in school. Like I was super smart, very smart, but I had a horrible and high school terrible grade point average, but I'm very smart. Like when I would look at things, I could figure things out. And you wanted to walk in Elon Musk? Yeah, yeah well. But writing it down, you know, was difficult. Spelling was difficult. Just pronouncing words, even to this day. You know, I had a, okay, you guys are gonna hear it now. I have a list. So a lot of us, when I was talking, you said, talk like this with my, you know, with these S's. So that's why now you'll start hearing it now that I said it, but you know, I had a serious list. So I had a list, you know, dyslexic and I didn't get diagnosed. So growing up, like if I had, if I didn't have the mindset that I had as a child, I guarantee you I probably would have been a criminal. I probably would have gotten into drugs. I would have gotten into something where, you know, low self-esteem would have low self-esteem because I'm seeing all these other children doing their thing. They're out there excelling super smart because what happens, think about this. The older generation, when they see a child and they see them real smart, what did they do? They pat them on the back. Oh, he's so smart. They picked them up, they fire them up, man. He's so smart. And then they go to the children that are struggling. Maybe the ones that, you know, they had, you know, they're struggling. Or autism as well. Or autism. And they call them lazy. Oh, they're lazy. They don't try. Where this kid in his mind, he's thinking, man, I want to be, you know, I want to be great. I want to be smart. What kid wants to be called a dummy? You know, what kid wants to be called a dummy? You know, I didn't want to be called a dummy, or trifler or whatever, you know, when you're a kid. So, and then the being in that situation, not know why? And you're trying your hardest to do good in school. But then what happens is that you don't and you can't figure it out. So now you become a clown. So where was your family at this point? And what were they saying? Where's dad? Where's my mother's? So my mother passed away when I was young. So I grew up with my stepfather. So my stepfather raised me and he was gone all the time. All the time. So it was just me, the oldest, my brother and sister. So I had to kind of take the role as somewhat of the parent. I used to go to parent teacher conferences. Didn't know what the hell I was doing. But I used to go for my brothers and sisters. So there was no real parent, you know, in my life that was there. Checking my homework or buying my school supplies. I mean, I have stories where, because my father, we were struggling, I used to work eight years old, I used to sell newspapers. So that's just a really good story. I'll tell you that at another time. But I knew at eight years old that my father wasn't gonna be able to buy the things that we needed. So to answer your question is that there really wasn't a parent in my life. A lot of my motivation came from self. Yeah, self motivation. Just thinking about Chaka Zulu. Chaka Zulu, Zulu Warrior was my idol. Because he was a big strong, you know, African man, loved Chaka Zulu, you know? And he was the guy that, you know, and I had other people, Alexander the Great, you know, these other people that I would read or hear these stories about that were just these great, like men, I wanted to be like that. So that was my drive, you know? So while I was going through all the things I was going through, there really wasn't anybody, it was all self motivated. And this is where DPX, so let me explain to you about DPX now. In a minute, because we have to shift. So in a minute. Okay. Okay. Well, I need more in a minute, and I'm just, okay, okay. So DPX's dream plan, execute. Dream means you come up with a dream. And it could be anything. And then you set a plan for it. It's a personal business plan for life. So it doesn't matter if you're poor, it doesn't matter where you come from. It doesn't matter if you grew up in the slums. Doesn't matter. It's all about mindset. This DPX is about changing your mindset. I tell people you're never gonna get rich in five minutes, falling DPX. You're gonna get over time. DPX is a life changing thought process. Okay. And I know you're saying you gotta wrap it up, you know, whatever, but I'm saying. The X in DPX means execute. So D, you have your dream. P is the planning part of it. So you write your plan out. And there's a process to it. And the X is the executed. The thing about a DPX is you have to think about it every day. That's the whole thing about DPX. It's like your song, it's like a theme. When you landed, I was checking out your Instagram story, when you landed in Dubai, it was DPX for life. When you landed at JK, it's DPX, it's not DPX Africa. DPX Africa, yes. So I want your viewers to follow us to see what DPX is really about. Because I want to talk more about DPX, Tesla and all that stuff. You need a whole hour. Yeah, seriously. I need two hours for DPX. And more, right. Seriously. Because it's going to change the way that you think about the things that you do every day, no matter where you're at. And the thing is, it's free. There's no cost. There's no cost here. The one thing that's light, this is what I want to leave you guys with. The one thing in life that a person can't control is what you think. So if you think you're strong, doesn't matter if you're weak, you could be the weakest person in the world. But if you think you're strong and you have that mentality that you're not going to let someone bully you, or maybe you're getting bullied, who cares? But you know two years from now, I'm going to be this manager somewhere because that's part of your DPX. You're not going to let that affect you. But it's about changing the mindset. If you're born poor and you think poor and you're poor, and I'm not saying poor in finances, I'm just saying the poor is the way you think. Mindset, then that's the way when you grow up, you're going to be poor. But if you grew up thinking you're strong, doesn't matter where you came from. And through your life, you're going to be strong. You're going to be that war. You're going to be that Shakazula. You're going to be able to do anything that you want. And you're going to have that from a young age. All right. I'm totally happy to wrap it up because you're supposed to be in another session as well. But also that led to your founding of Dyslexia Africa. Dyslexia Africa, yes. Actually, no, I didn't found it. They actually found me. Oh, they found you? And now I'm their international ambassador. I'm actually going to get on their board. So Dyslexia Africa is an amazing organization. I love what they do. We're going to probably start a branch here in Kenya. I'm looking for an office here in Kenya, actually. So I'm going to probably most likely get an office for Green Earth, and then we're going to share it with DPX and African Dyslexia. But yeah, amazing group. Again, need to follow up more on that. All right. And that would be actually an opportunity for people to get to a space where they can walk and learn and spread awareness. That's exactly what I want to do. I want to have a workshop. I want to do training. I want to teach people how to get into the environmental industry, how to do zero waste, just everything. There's so much that I have to share with this beautiful country and these beautiful people that I've meeting and met. You guys don't understand. The type of guy you'll see. You'll see. I'm not one of those guys just talk. I love, love, love the most. Action. Love action. Less than talk. Actually, absolutely. All right. As we go, for how long are you in here in Kenya? So I'll be here about a month. All right. Yeah, I'll be here about a month. Or maybe it's longer. That might be even six weeks. So we're going all over. All right. For anyone who's been watching and maybe they want to partner with you, they want to support, they want to get more insights. And maybe they even want classes about DPX. How can they get access to you on social media and email? The best way is through Instagram right now. So my Instagram is hey, so h-e-y underscore a-dontay. Get me there. That's one of the best ways. Now, we have an email. It's dpxforlife. No, it's a-dontay at dpxforlife.com. A-dontay at dpxforlife.com. That's where anyone who wants to know more. Yeah, on email. That's our email. They can do it. And we're developing our website. It'll be done in probably a week or so. So you'll be able to get more information. But get me on Instagram. I'm telling you, that's the best way to get more information. So I'm going to go ahead and share it with you. But get me on Instagram. I'm telling you, that's the best way. And you'll see me. I talk every day. I talk into the camera. I'm talking to you guys about motivation, about dpx, about everything. It's a really, really tech. Everything. All around. You know, you've seen it, Brian. All right. We have been speaking to Aaron Phillips. He's the founder at Green Arts Sustainable Solutions, Inc. from San Jose, California, the United States of the America. Right here live with us in the studio on hashtag Thursday Vibes, sport on tech. We hope to let you go. Thank you so much for your time. No, appreciate that. Thank you, guys. All right. We hope to take a very short break. But we are coming back with much more still on that hashtag, which is why in the morning, our 24 for underscore channel on the ground personally at Brian's so-called 101. We take a break. We come back with much more. Stick around.