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You can't be afraid to verbalize your ignorance. That's holding you back. Give me an example.
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I can give you several. Like investing like you're telling me that if I put this money in here right now, I get 30x
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20x. What the [ __ ] It's a [ __ ] scam. I know a scam. When I see one, go find you another idiot cuz it ain't happening
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over here, buddy. But when you go and you say, "I don't know what that means." How does investing really work? I don't
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know where to get it. Now you're a part of the right conversations. You're part of the right opportunities, but you get
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there by being the dummy in them. And now look at what I'm able to do. I love it. I love it.
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Kevin, it took 13 years from where you did your first stand up to you having your moment. But why didn't you quit?
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Because of the lessons that my mom gave from being very scarred from my brother.
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So, let's go back. I grew up in North Philadelphia. My brother sold the drugs. My dad was always in jail, out of jail.
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My mom wasn't going to let that happen with me. So, we had an agreement. I had a certain amount of time to make comedy
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work. And in my mind, it wasn't going to be hard because there was no other option. I would figure it out. So, I was
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driving from Philadelphia to New York every day. I wasn't coming home until 4:00 a.m. where I was doing 25 to 28
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sets a weekend. I worked at for a very, very long time. And the struggle left you with days of
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what am I doing? Can I pay my rent? [ __ ] this, man. But my mom's biggest lesson
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was you're not quitting. And not many people are going to do the 13 years of hardship. Most people opt out at year
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two. I'm going to go find a quick return. Well, you keep quitting to start something else that you think is the
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idea. It's just a cycle. You're never completing anything. You got to make a choice of the thing you're going to do
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and finish. I made the choice that standup comedy was what I was going to finish because if I focused and did it
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well, that would open up the doors for me to do everything else that I want to do.
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But they say that you can't have everything in life. So, what is the cost? Have you struggled
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with your mental health? What advice have you got for young men in terms of like what it takes to be a good man?
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It's a weird thing that's happening where the definition of a good man is so foggy. It seems that in this time today
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more men are being forward wanting to express and talk but the fear of being judged after.
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Do you have that fear?