 700 grams of coke and five pounds of weed to Marilyn Wow, and my transporter got caught and I thought she was gonna tell on me and she didn't she didn't tell So we bailed her out and we got her a lawyer and a lawyer beat the charge Wow For a legal search and seizure, but I'm like yo, she would have told Oh Lifestyle Yeah, it's like yo if I gotta if I gotta take one for all of us to be straight then like Now I really understand why when I seen you teaching about Transferring your life to this to that none makes sense because I really never got the detail of the story Well, I just seen you on the chalkboard I've seen you on the whiteboard doing this and showing that like who is this guy? What is he talking about? But with your credentials the way you just laid him out Understand that that you wouldn't know like it's the same thing. That was my first felony I had three of them. Wow did I want the prison in Maryland and in prison in Jersey and Total two and a half years between all three God was giving me grace man, and that's what happens. I was at 25 years old I was like, oh, bro, like you're still selling dope All right, I had a red cherry red navigator at 19. I pay cash worth a lot I have some jewelry Cartier. This is not there. I'm like, yo, bro Yes, I'm some some you know some street stats, but you 25 you got three felonies you get locked up again Mm-hmm And it's like you still selling drugs and now I'm even selling drugs worse though because Prior to me selling dope and norc I had sent 700 grams of coke and five pounds of weed to Maryland Wow and my transporter got caught and I thought she was gonna tell on me and she didn't she didn't tell So we bailed her out and we got our lawyer and lawyer beat the charge Wow For a legal search and seizure, but I'm like, yo, she would have told Ain't no a way interviewer right now. No, not at all You know I'm saying ain't no J. Morris ain't none of the things you be so so So I switched my hustle from selling coke to selling dope. I'm like, all right, my coke route busted. I'm gonna start telling her right now So I get to this point where I'm approach to 25 it's 24 still approach 25 I'm just like, yo, this ain't looking as bright as it did any more kids yet at this point No, okay. I'm like this ain't looking as bright as it did years ago. I believe in it I believed in a dope game. I believed in so yeah 25 man So the brick wall for me was not the consequences of something external was all internal It was like, are you a drug dealer? Are you a hustler? You're a drug dealer on the cell drugs. You're hustling also anything So when I was on parole in 2002 when I was 22 22 years old I was on parole a Mentor at a Saturday men's group that I had to go to pastor Antoine Thomas I was ready to go back to prison because I hated parole. So I'm like, you know what? Turn myself back in I hate this parole. I hate this curfew breath a lot. Yeah, just go ahead in this service all time and all out of my life This is my bright 22 year old idea. I'm gonna be the jail like I don't like this So the pastor was like, all right bright idea before you do take this business card I like some more processor the mortgage company and I want you to go apply. I'm like, I don't know about the mortgages He's like, you'll just try so I went to the mortgage company and I applauded accepted me on a commission basis to be a loan officer These are our teaching you about credit and how to build credit and about financing and real estate and mortgages and It was fascinating to you It was cool. But what was fascinating is my grandmother. Let me refinance her house Which is paperwork application boom boom and I made like 3000 into my every finance her house me 3000 It's the money that I made six thousand in like 45 days I was like, yo, I ain't had to do nothing for real like pushing papers like but most dope deals would be like even just that amount of like that's not enough I Looking at scale those like all right That's just two people But I'm just like the fact that you got I think to make six thousand in the street at least at the level I was at then is like I got take a lot of risk to make six thousand. I gotta be standing in the sun I gotta be standing in the rain and whether I'm gonna have a whole block running like a lot of a lot of variables here Yeah, I just made six thousand foot slides and papers like That's one thing I've always said Even way before I even met my husband because I always knew even back home I knew a lot of people who did certain things and I used to always say if you can be out here hustling in these streets You can turn what you because you know how to do money really good Most of these guys can look at money. I know exactly how much just look at you know the thickness I'm like, oh, that's such a such that's such a such and if you have a group of people working for you Delegating responsibility There's an inventory you handle it If you can do all of that why wouldn't you turn around and be an entrepreneur in our own business where you're not looking over your shoulder exposure and belief in self See, I had the exposure part handle because someone introduced me in a mentorship program to real estate But I still hadn't believed that I was bigger than a block And so at 25 I challenged myself like, you know, if you really demand like bro If you really demand you should be there going real estate and do the same thing I'm like, yeah, you can flip anything anybody anybody who was in the streets can flip anything you got apply yourself And you got to learn that new industry, right? That's the part that we don't want to do, right? You can't talk and dress the same way And not understand the lingo of real estate You understand what ROI is what LTV is what a ARV is right with a Rural origination is and equity and appreciation and you know I'm saying so Um, I just challenged myself. So I didn't get caught or nothing like that. I literally quit one day Wow, I quit. I was like man because you had another job, which was Real estate. Yeah, I didn't have the job then I was going to go get the license I just knew that I just felt like my time had expired And it's like either I'm going to expire it or it's going to expire me