The Grit Behind the Glitz of Building Your Business

Embark on a transformational journey with me, Dr. Shon, the Motivational Dentist, as we unveil the gritty reality of building a business from scratch. Through the Hood to Hooded podcast, we're not just talking about entrepreneurship; we're living it, one episode at a time. Discover how my own rollercoaster ride—marked by trials, triumphs, and the quest for generational wealth—can illuminate the path for your venture. From the confrontation with workplace adversity to the essential balance of work and life, learn why business acumen is equally as crucial as mastering your craft. This is your opportunity to uncover the strategies that will empower you to rise above the ranks and craft an empire of your own.

This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for those ready to trade their day-to-day grind for the thrill of ownership. We'll dissect the vital role of accounting, once a source of my own trepidation but now an invaluable tool in the entrepreneurial arsenal. Tune in to glean insights on setting your worth, the art of negotiation, and the relentless pursuit of innovation, even when the going gets tough. Whether you’re just starting or seeking to rejuvenate your existing business, our candid conversations promise to fuel your drive and sharpen your focus on the road to success. Join us, as we lay bare the essentials of entrepreneurship and commit to turning aspirations into concrete achievements.

Chapters

• 0:01 Entrepreneurship
• 14:55 Entrepreneurial Journey and Overcoming Adversity
• 25:53 Entrepreneurship Goals

Transcript

Dr. Shon: 0:01

Hey dreamers and gold diggers, welcome to the Hood to Hooded podcast. With Dr Shon, the Motivational Mentist, we're here to elevate your game in business, entrepreneurship, mental and physical wellness and financial literacy, all aimed at helping you create generational wealth. Grab your pens and pads, because we're diving deep into strategies to boost your mindset and set you on the path to happiness and success. All aboard the Hood to Hooded Express, let's get started.

Dr. Shon: 0:38

Hello kings and queens, welcome back to another episode of the Hood to Hooded podcast with your host, Dr. Shon TV. I like to add that little last part on for a little pizzazz. But I'm Dr Sean, the motivational dentist, and I am here to help you break generational curses, create generational wealth and retain generational knowledge. You know, this podcast is a journey from hood to hood. It is a journey from poverty into wealth. It's a journey from being broken down into success and just feeling happiness. And also it's a journey in, you know, just your overall health, mental health, physical health, spiritual health, just all the pillars of health we want to address in this podcast.

Dr. Shon: 1:32

But today our topic is entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is one of those things where it's very, very risky. Not everybody's going to do it, and if you've either been thinking about doing it or you've been a little hesitant you don't know where to start then perhaps this podcast is for you. Now, if you've been stuck in a rut, living paycheck to paycheck, maybe you also need to listen to this podcast, because maybe there's some jewels in here for you to take back with you and to take action on your dreams and not feel any regret about your life. All right. So let's start off. So we all know the definition of entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs. This is a term that's tossed around loosely and a lot of people don't realize that most entrepreneurs fail within the first year. They quit their business, it doesn't work out and it's really, really hard to make it past the fifth year. So me, here I'm in my less than first year of entrepreneurship, specifically in the dental industry, and that's what I want to talk about a little bit today my experience, the things that I've learned and maybe some things that I could have done differently. But you never can go back. It's all a learning experience. Some learning experiences are a little bit more expensive than other ones. So I'm the type of person I like to be in a room with other people who are bright, intelligent, and I don't like to be the smartest person in the room, because you know what they say if you're the smartest person in the room, you are absolutely in the wrong room. Okay, you don't want to be around a bunch of know-it-alls and you know you want people to actually pour into you, give you that generational knowledge so that you can share it and grow your wealth and grow your happiness and just, you know, not feel so defeated week after week.

Dr. Shon: 3:29

So entrepreneurship, according to Wikipedia, is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk assumed by a traditional business and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. So that's what entrepreneurship is. It's just like taking that journey and taking those risks that create economic value, which is something that lacks when you are faced with poverty. You don't have much economic value because you don't understand. You know that money is fake, that you're supposed to use it to invest and build wealth and buy land, and you know these different tools that you can use money for. This is the difference between someone who is in the hood and someone who is hooded. Or hooded generally just means like someone who has made it okay, because everybody who is hooded doesn't necessarily have a lot of wealth. Okay, it's just a metaphor.

Dr. Shon: 4:33

So what exactly would we describe as an entrepreneur? Do you see yourself as an entrepreneur? Do you know any entrepreneurs in your family, in your environment? Well, you guys. Entrepreneurs are all around us. All the businesses you see in your city, all the you know the things that you see going on in your town, your city. They are ran by entrepreneurs the pizza huts, the mcdonald's, the kfc's, the hospitals, the barber shops, the beauty salons, the, the nail salons, you know, the clothing stores, the grocery stores all these had to start with someone who is, just like you, interested in making a difference in the economy and in their economic value.

Dr. Shon: 5:18

An entrepreneur is an individual who creates or and or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risk and enjoying most of the rewards. The process of setting up a business is known as entrepreneurship, which is what we are talking about today, your journey in entrepreneurship and, well, my journey in entrepreneurship as well. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services and business or procedures. So does that sound like somebody? Does that sound like you? Are you an innovator? Are you somebody who is always trying to think of something new to help other people out or just to make a difference in the world? Do you have a lot of new ideas that you want to bring to life, that you want to write on paper and actually see come to life? Do you want to sell goods or services? Do you develop businesses or procedures for businesses? Do you see yourself as someone who creates new ideas, who wants to sell a good or service. So, for instance, services would be something like dentistry when the patients come in the door, we provide a service and, in turn, that creates economic value, and that value is determined on how you value yourself. So that's why I say you should always know your worth. You should always know what you're doing in life and always have a purpose.

Dr. Shon: 6:47

Entrepreneurship is really, really difficult, but the people who take that risk, who know that sometimes the reward might not come instantly. A lot of times, 99.9% of the times, the reward in entrepreneurship does not appear in your life instantly. You have to put your head down, stay focused, keep grinding, get up every day, make a difference and just keep pushing forward. In relationship to the dental office, the first year was really scary. You know I'm coming from not only just being a new dentist not technically a new dentist but I haven't been a dentist for over 10 years.

Dr. Shon: 7:30

I graduated 2016 from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, tennessee, which was one of the most difficult things I ever done in my life. Losing my mom was one of the most difficult mental battles I ever faced. But the second has to be going to dental school. Like dental school. It like it, just you have to be a sponge. It will change your whole entire life and make you realize that you don't know anything like what you thought you knew. You don't know how far that your brain can absorb this information at such a fast pace. So just coming from that environment and feeling like that was super, duper difficult. I kid you not so anybody out there who wants to be a dentist. You have to buckle down and stay focused. I feel like we will discuss like pre-dental tips and tricks in another podcast.

Dr. Shon: 8:25

But, that all that experience is going to be very vital to your journey as an entrepreneur, should you decide to take that route. Ok, so once I got out of dental school, moved to New York City, started a dental practice residency at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. I knew that it was just. This field is just very, very difficult, especially coming from the hood. So the big difference is coming from the hood, you don't really have that support system. People don't even know how to support you, so you really lack. So I could just remember being in New York City attending this residency program, which was a general practice residency, feeling, like, you know, a little stressed because part of the year I was homeless, sleeping in the car let's talk about that um, the beginning of the year, begging for money online from family and friends to try to help me overcome this hump, and I could just remember a family member. I asked the family member I don't want to put the name out there, but I was just so shocked like, homeless, just getting out of dental school, homeless in Nashville, really, really sick. I was taking this drug called Lupron it's a chemo drug and it really made me really, really sick my last semester of dental school. So I really thought my whole life was over. I thought that God was calling me home. I was in so much pain and I just thought that my whole career was over. But the moment that I realized I was about to lose everything that I've worked for for all these years you know, 12 years of school something clicked. I said you know, I cannot give up, not right now. God won't bring us so far, just to leave us going through all of that, dealing with that experience, moving to New York with nothing, having to give everything away because I could not afford to bring it here. You know, moving to New York City you have to kind of downgrade. You can't take a house full of stuff. So just shedding all of that past, and shedding all of the past to move and get to this point was a sacrifice.

Dr. Shon: 10:34

And that went on to, you know, me working six years as a general dentist and realizing that if I don't take that risk like they describe in you know the definition of entrepreneur someone who sets up businesses is an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods or services If I don't take most of the risk, I will never see the reward that I wanted, because I wanted autonomy. I want to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love to do, without pressure, without force, without rushing, and that's what the big problem was for me being an associate dentist was it's always like a rush environment. There's always some discrepancies with your pain, there's always like somebody over your head it's just not your idea. So you kind of have to conform to what other people want, and this goes for any job. I'm just using my career as a dentist as an example. Now, it doesn't matter what level you are, you still have.

Dr. Shon: 11:40

If you're an entrepreneur at heart, you will know, because nothing else will ever work for you. Nothing else will ever feel as good as being your own boss. This isn't for everybody and a lot of times, even now, I find myself like, wow, what did I get myself into? This is a lot. There's a lot of responsibility, there's a lot on my head Like there's so many ideas and you know, keeping your cash flow and there's just so much that goes into being an entrepreneur. Okay, but if you want it, you will absolutely take that risk and nothing and no one is going to stop you coming back to one year ago, getting that urge, feeling the burning desire to make a difference, to be an innovator.

Dr. Shon: 12:29

I took that leap of faith and when you are in the beginning stages of entrepreneurship, one tip that I will tell you is you want to kind of ease your way out, especially if you're funding it yourself. A lot of times you can get business funding which is a topic for another conversation but if you're funding it yourself, like me, that's probably something I wouldn't have done in the past. But god told me to go. You know, like melody, god told me to go first. Couple months last year I did part-time in other offices and I did part-time in other offices and I did part-time here in our office Motivational Dentistry until I felt a strong urge to just say you know what? I'm going to go full-time, I'm going to quit my job and just really believe in this.

Dr. Shon: 13:18

Now you have to know you're going to get met with a lot of backlash, a lot of doubt from people who have never been entrepreneurs, because they cannot see your vision. So that's number two. Number one is make sure you kind of ease into it. Keep your job and ease into it. Do it as a side hustle at first. Number two you want to be surrounded by like-minded individuals.

Dr. Shon: 13:40

There is nothing worse than having this huge dream to start this company, to be an innovator, knowing now we already know that there's a high risk, because that's the thing about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs there's a high risk. It's not a low risk. There's a high risk that you could fail. But I think that's the most intimidating part of this process is knowing in the back of your mind that this could fail but should not stop you. It should not stop you from like for me, I know that there was a one percent chance that I would become a dentist and I could not let that one percent chance that was staring me in the face prevent me from accomplishing my goal or, even worse, just even attempting to accomplish my goal. So you, at least, must make an attempt to reach those requirements and those goals that you have set in your life. You set those goals. So I feel like you need to meet those goals Now. If you don't have, then you're probably on the wrong podcast. If you're just willy-nilly going through life, then you're probably on the wrong podcast. But I feel like everyone should feel confident and really be the boss of your own life.

Dr. Shon: 14:55

Okay, so last year, journeying through entrepreneurship, it just really opened my eyes to a lot, because I went from just being that employee mindset clock in, do my dentistry go home. Clock in, do my dentistry go home but I felt like I was in some type of box. I always met a ceiling. I always met some type of adversity in the dental office, whether it come from racism, being the only Black person even you know the doctor, the patients nobody looks like me. The staff doesn't look like me. I'm in an environment where I'm the only Black person in the building and I hardly ever see anybody who looks like me. So and then you get a lot of like flack from doctors. The staff trying to start issues it's just like can become very, very racist in the office, and I've had that experience not in a lot of offices, but in one particular. So that experience really, really set me off.

Dr. Shon: 15:57

And then I found out that I will only be getting 25% of the work that I was doing. So this is a bad deal for me, like if you're only, you know just scraping by doing most of the work. It's time for you to be an entrepreneur and do it for yourself. Another thing about the first year is that when it became time to go full on. I did seven days a week, seven to seven every day for like the first month or two and I realized quickly this was a bad idea. Like you have to have a work-life balance even as an entrepreneur, those first months, maybe even first years, will be some sleepless nights.

Dr. Shon: 16:40

It gives me the nostalgia of dental school, like the hustle, the grind, having so much responsibility and it's a lot. Because one thing that they don't teach in dental school I mean they kind of brush over it but I don't think it's taken as serious is entrepreneurship business, and you already know that this isn't taught really in high school. It's really not taught in college, unless you specifically seek out that type of information. So for me, I know that my undergrad years at Florida State University, even my high school years at James S Rickards High School, being in the International Baccalaureate program, really kind of helped me solidify a lot of things that I didn't learn in the hood. A lot of things that I didn't learn in the hood, a lot of things that I probably would have never learned. Just being on a straight and narrow path, being in those specific programs, really shaped me as a young adult, in IB and then going to Florida State. It really helped me catch on to the pace that college really has.

Dr. Shon: 17:45

So every level is going to get harder and harder and harder. When you're in middle school you have that feeling like dang, I'm scared to go to high school. I know it's another level. You have that anxiety. I was the same way. When you get to high school you realize it's not too bad, but it is another, it's going to require more of you, okay. So when I got to high school in ap classes, I was forced to get into ib classes. See, god does everything in his timing. I did not want to do the program, I was forced. God moved people to put me in the program in 11th grade. Right, dealing with that.

Dr. Shon: 18:23

Going to college, going to florida state, realizing, hey, I love learning about science but my other brain kind of wants to know some business. I want to know the numbers, I want to know how the business moves. But you know, being a science major, taking organic chemistry, taking biochemistry, physics, one and two organic, one and two anatomy, all these different classes, you really have to stay focused because this is where they weed you out. But they also help build your confidence and your skills to prepare you for what's about to hit you when you go into dental school. Okay, in college I found time to take accounting, um, some personal finance classes, some business, but it just wasn't enough to really call myself business minded or entrepreneurship. It was just like scraping the surface. But nevertheless it was a valuable experience Accounting I will never forget.

Dr. Shon: 19:19

At Florida State University, accounting was one, accounting one and two, because I wanted a business minor. So you have to take certain classes and I was like, oh my god, I never thought that math, money, math could be so confusing. It was just so confusing to me back then. But now I realize how important it is and it really kind of helps me out. Now I just have to learn more. One funny thing that I'll point out is Warren Buffett. He said what is the one topic that most people should learn? You know, if they're doing business and they want to be an entrepreneur, and that topic is accounting. It's accounting, it's math, it's money. Everything revolves around it. So that experience in college really kind of helped me out to this day. So just being in this first year having to deal with accounting, not really having that experience in dental school because dental school has me focused pretty much 95% on learning the body, learning the mouth, learning the teeth, learning the procedures, learning the protocols, just learning so much other than that. And they try to squeeze it in, like with investing, but not really entrepreneurship overhead supplies, anr accounts, receivable topic, the kpis so all this stuff opens up into a whole new world.

Dr. Shon: 20:41

In the first year of your business, you want to keep track of your KPIs, all right, your key performance indicators. We're kind of talking about a bunch of different things in this episode, but the whole moral of the story is being an entrepreneur is a big risk. It's a big risk and everybody's not going to take it, but I want you guys to be motivated, to be an innovator, to be positive along your journey and don't become negative when things don't work out. So this first year has been truly a year of development. I think when you're going through your first year of entrepreneurship, this is the time for you to give yourself some grace, go extra hard and just always be developing Every single day. Think about how you can develop more systems for your business, more marketing for your business, more advertisements for your business, more products, better services. And number one one I would say is customer service like that is so huge.

Dr. Shon: 21:51

When you are an entrepreneur, don't go too fast and just take your time every day. So during the first six months of being an entrepreneur, the things that really hit me like a ton of bricks, especially in the dental field, is overhead. You know, this is how much you have to subtract from what you produce or what you sell, the goods that you sell, to pay the bills basically. So that's one thing that you want to eliminate or reduce is your overhead. So if you made $10 off of this sale and the supplies and the staff, that percentage is like $6. That means you're only making $4 on it. So dealing with that, trying to align vendors and speaking to patients and just being the person who is 100% like, and just being the person who is 100% like, the license falls on. It's a lot of pressure, it's a lot of stress. There's so many legal requirements that come with it, from OSHA to HIPAA, to the state requirements to the radiology. It's just so much to deal with. But the one thing that I can say that it's worth it and that you can do it and that you just have to stay focused. Okay, entrepreneurs really must have a totally different level of confidence to do something that is scary and that could possibly not really work out. A lot of the days here now I feel like this could possibly fail. This business could fail, but I won't quit. That's the big difference. Something could fail, but the overall goal is to not quit. It's kind of like when I'm watching the WNBA game. Sometimes I'm like dang. I know those teams feel bad, they're losing, but you still have to play to the very end. You still have to complete the game, take in that loss, go back, develop new concepts, develop new economic systems and develop yourself so that you can get better and win the next round. I would say, um, honestly, many days being an entrepreneur, it feels stressful, and that's one thing that we don't want to have every day is, you know, taking on that stress, you really need to have your faith really high, know why you're doing what you're doing and really pay attention to the numbers. The numbers and entrepreneurship is attention to the numbers. The numbers and entrepreneurship is going to change your life. The numbers meaning the taxes how much are you charging for your services and goods? Like you don't want to lowball, um, you want to make sure you are matching the supply and demand. So this has to deal with economics when you talk about your supply and your demand. So if your supply is really high, maybe your prices are too high. Maybe you have to come down a little bit and then, when the demand goes up, you can increase your prices because you have more people wanting the supply. So it's just like knowing your worth is everything. That's the biggest takeaway that you can have being an entrepreneur and an innovator. You must know your work, because some people might know your work better than you do and then they rip you off and then listen. It's a bad deal. So you want to know your worth and constantly develop your constantly develop that relationship with yourself where you're not lowballing yourself, getting cheated and feeling like it's not worth it, because that's the worst thing you can do.

Dr. Shon: 25:34

I can recall, you know, in the beginning of opening this dental practice I did not want to participate with dental insurance. I was so skeptical about it. I heard bad things about it. I mean, everybody who was talking to told me it was a bad idea. Only take a couple. And I said you know, I didn't want to do it.

Dr. Shon: 25:53

When you're first starting, you have that fear. Like what if I don't have a patient? What if nobody walks in the door? Like I remember our first day, we had one patient, one patient. It was an emergency from the office that I was working at part time. They sent me a patient and but we always had a patient every day. Show up and you know, keep this thing and keep this dream rolling. Um. So that's the fear when you start am I going to have a customer? Am I going to have a patient? But realize, everybody started from nothing. Everybody started from zero.

Dr. Shon: 26:26

When it comes to entrepreneurship, most people start from zero.

Dr. Shon: 26:30

Besides the people who have legacy, have parents.

Dr. Shon: 26:33

I'm not talking about those people. I'm talking about people who come from poverty, who look like me. Take that leap of faith. Use that extra money that you have to invest in yourself and invest in your business. You're going to have to go without the lashes. You're going. You have to invest in yourself and invest in your business. You're going to have to go without the lashes. You're going to have to go without the weave. You're going to have to go without the fancy car. You're going to have to go without the fancy vacation, the expensive clothes and shoes for a little while so that you can invest and take that risk and accomplish something greater, because nobody's going to do it for us. No one is gonna wake up tomorrow and just have it all together.

Dr. Shon: 27:09

You have to at least put in that effort and try. Stay away from negativity, stay away from negative people who aren't, who are in the room just to soak up gossip and different things. You have to stay focused, just stay, stay focused. That's the biggest thing about this is staying focused. What can you innovate today? What ideas can you bring to life today? How can you increase your branding, your presence in the market? How can you increase your demand for your supply and know your worth? That's the biggest thing ever that going and taking all those insurances, I kind of lost the value of my worth.

Dr. Shon: 27:51

I was back into the hustle and bustle of going really fast, trying to make, trying to get the dollar because everything's so cheap, dealing with the insurance, like I just got to keep working faster and I was just back into a spot where I felt like I was still in somebody else's office. This was not the idea that I had in my mind. I did learn this fastness, this pace, from working in other places, but this is not the idea that I want for Motivational Dentistry, our company. I don't want that for us. I want us to be more relaxed, fivestar service, customer service, luxury, exquisite and treating people right, without feeling like I have to do what the insurance company says do? I don't want that. That's not autonomy, that's more like, you know, being a slave to a system. Okay, so when you know your work, you'll say you know what. I don't want to go and lay down with the insurance companies. I want to be straight up. I know my word. This this is what is worth. The cost is the cost. I can't suffer trying to do it the way other people did it.

Dr. Shon: 28:58

What is our value? What are our goals? What is the mission that we're trying to accomplish here? How do I want this to look? What do we want to do? How can we create economic value? That's the thing you want to create economic value so that you can continue growing, so that you can have a better lifestyle and really change the trajectory of your life. It's not going to happen overnight, guys. It's just not going to happen overnight. It's not gonna happen overnight, guys. It's just not gonna happen overnight.

Dr. Shon: 29:31

Worship journey for me to now. I'm still going. I'm still in the mud. I'll be honest, I'm still in the mud. I'm still trying to figure it out, but one thing I refuse to do is quit. So the moral of the story do not quit if you are entrepreneur out there. Take it a day at a time. Learn your key performance indicators, learn the numbers, learn some accounting, Do the math and just continue to develop your ideas. Continue to come up with systems and strategies and new ways to make everything that you're doing pop. One thing we have to get out is the, the expectations that it's going to be perfect, expectations that you're going to make a million dollars in the first week first year. These things are very, very rare. You have to just keep going, keep your head down and stay focused.

Dr. Shon: 30:24

This has been like a little glimpse into my journey as an entrepreneur, like an official entrepreneur in my career. Of course, I've sold stuff done here, um, in the past I did a lot of different things in the past to make money, but it really wasn't career focused. It was more like to make money so I can get to my career. Now I'm in this career trying to see the light on the other side of it being an entrepreneur, knowing all the risks, knowing that I could fail every day. Guys, I could actually literally fail with this business. This is like a moment of transparency. Every day I'm just like wow, I don't know if this is gonna fail. I don't know. And I had a conversation with a family member and they told me well, if it fell, you could just go work for somebody else. And I I'm like God, please don't make this fail, because that ain't the type of energy I want. I don't want to hear, oh, if it fell, then you could just go back and no, no, no, no, no. That's why everybody is different. I don't want it to fail.

Dr. Shon: 31:38

I'm praying and praying every day and doing the hard work, of course, and just trying to figure everything out um, because there's so many levels to this, like um, overhead, marketing, team building, hiring, hr. Like osha, hipa, state compliance, workers comp, safety, um, keeping the lights on the water, the equipment, the supplies dealing with patients, prescriptions, pharmacies, referrals. It just goes like so, so, so, so deep. And I know that God prepared me for this moment. God prepared you for this moment. God prepared you to receive this energy, to receive this positive vibes, to use this as a sign to just keep going or if you haven't started, you need to start. You need to start. You can't fail, you need to start. Create that economic value in your life.

Dr. Shon: 32:36

Break those generational curses because they are. They have like a big, they have you in the death grip. You can't, you feel like you can't get out. It's all a lie. Today is the day you break that generational curse mentally. It all starts mentally, not physically. Don't worry about the things that you can't have or the things that you don't have, the things that you can't see. The things that you want are the things that you need that you don't have.

Dr. Shon: 33:01

Break that generational curse first, mentally. That's the biggest battle is just believing in yourself. Once you believe in yourself and once you know that, regardless of what the outside people say, regardless of what the haters say, regardless of what the naysayers say, I'm gonna believe in myself and give it my all and be the best that I can be. Listen, nothing can stop you. I mean, tell me who can stop you. Tell me who can stop somebody who is on a mission to accomplish their goals, start their business. Take it a day at a time. Go hard every day and not give up when things don't go according to your plan, okay. So we're going to break those generational curses, we're going to create that generational wealth and that economic value and we are building generational knowledge, all right. So, you guys, until the next podcast, it's been great chatting with you all about entrepreneurship.

Dr. Shon: 34:04

I hope that you stay motivated. I hope that you stay focused. I hope that you just rise above all the obstacles and all the BS that life dish when you were born. I hope that you overcome all of that. Get rid of anything in your life that has been holding you back. All right, all aboard the Hood to Hooded Express. Baby, we are going somewhere we like flying All right. We flying where we like flying all right, we flying.

Dr. Shon: 34:44

Let me be your. Let me be like the example for you that you can overcome anything. You can overcome anything. You can overcome anything. What's your problem? Tell me what it is, write it down on paper. You can overcome that. I don't care what it is. You can overcome it. But you got to be mentally there. You got to be mentally prepared. You got to be mentally ready. You can't wake up with the excuses, so I blame other people. Get your together. Okay, get it together. It's time to get it together. It's time to live your best life. It's time to be happy. It's time. It's time to stand on business. It's time to stand on business, y'all. Don't play with it. Don't play with it, especially the way this economy is going. Don't play with it, don't play with it. But that's enough for this podcast. I will see y'all in the next podcast.

Dr. Shon: 35:41

This is Dr Shon, the Motivational Dentist baby, and I'm living unapologetically, dreaming unapologetically and just doing what I want to do every day to continue to pursue my purpose. And I see you guys, positive vibes, wherever you are. If you made it to the end of this podcast, I thank you. Please, please, go ahead and rate our podcast five stars. Give me five stars wherever. That's the free thing that you can do. And if you really really love it, want to see me put out more content faster well, not faster, but with quality, go ahead and be a subscriber. It's only three dollars per month. And if you can't do that, just share the love, just share the podcast. Leave some comments. Let me know what you want to hear in that in the next podcast that can help us grow from hood to hooded. Alright, it's been a pleasure. I'm going to get off of here and I will see y'all in the next episode. Peace and you. You got this, you got this!