Hood2Hooded Podcast
The Hood2Hooded Podcast delves into the challenging journey of overcoming poverty and breaking the cycle of generational limitations. Through insightful discussions and practical strategies, we aim to empower listeners with the knowledge and tools necessary to rise above adversity. From exploring entrepreneurship and business savvy to unlocking the mental barriers that perpetuate defeat, our goal is to guide you on a transformative journey towards achieving generational wealth. Join us as we navigate the path from hood to hooded, embracing hustle, passion, and growth along the way. It's time to break free from the shackles of poverty and embrace a future filled with success and prosperity.
Hood2Hooded Podcast
Unlocking Creativity: From Financial Struggles to Multiple Income Streams
From Hood to Hooded, embark on a creative journey with me, Dr. Shon, to unlock your potential and establish multiple income streams as we approach the new year. Imagine breaking free from the chains of financial struggle, just like I did after overcoming poverty. In this episode, I offer a roadmap to leveraging your innate creativity, whether you're an aspiring baker or a passionate cook, to navigate economic challenges and lead a fulfilling, multifaceted life. We'll explore the significance of embracing creativity and combatting self-doubt, ensuring you're ready to thrive no matter the economic climate.
Join me as I delve into the transformative power of creating your future, despite the burdens of adulthood and daily routines that often make us feel trapped. Drawing inspiration from Coca-Cola's humble beginnings and the delayed triumph of "Akeelah and the Bee," I emphasize that success is a journey, not a destination. Learn how to overcome perfectionism, embrace imperfections, and pursue your passions to positively impact others, just as I've done in balancing my roles as a podcast host and dentist. Buckle up for the Hood to Hooded Express, where together we'll shatter excuses, step into our creator bag, and march towards a successful, fulfilling year ahead.
Thanks for listening, I pray this episode inspires you to kick start your journey towards the ultimate level of success.
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What's going on? Kings and queens? This is Dr Sen, back with another Hood to Hooded odcast. In today's podcast we're going to talk about get into your creator bag. Okay, this is a season to get into your creator bag. Let me see if I have too much light. There we go, welcome welcome, welcome, welcome back.
Speaker 1:I know it's been a minute, but hopefully you guys are doing well. You know it's the week of the fat bags. The big bag is big bag week, so I could not let ovember get out of here without giving you guys another podcast. But today I just want to talk about getting into your creator bag and why this is so important, especially going into the new year. We want to just dive deep into the bag, get all the way in your bag. Are you in your bag today? Because I need for us to stay in our bag. Get in our bag, create the bag, be the bag, sell the bag. Is the bag okay?
Speaker 1:So for the people who come from the hood because you know this is the hood to hooded journey part of going from hood to hooded is learning how to get in your bag. Now, so many people struggle in the paycheck to paycheck, payday loans, title loans, all of these different things. I came from that environment. Believe it or not, in college I was the payday loan queen, because there was nobody to loan money around in the hood. So the story for how I got to where I am today it took a lot of prayer, it took a lot of just trying to find money, and that's the big thing that makes this world go round is this money? It's all about the Benjamins. Like, when did it become like this? But it is so. I want to give you some tools and tricks as you go into 2025 so that you could just get into your monetization bag. All right. So with this new president, donald Trump, coming into office, and with all the changes that he's anticipating on making and all the things going on with the economy, including inflation rent prices are higher, car prices are higher, car insurance is higher. Everything that you need money for is pretty much higher. Dentistry is definitely skyrocketing. But that's the story. That's the video for another day.
Speaker 1:Today, I just want to strictly encourage us to get into our creator bag. Stop sitting on the bag Now. What does this all mean? So when I say get into your creative bag, this means like inside of you there is a natural born person who was born to create, to produce and just to make things come to life.
Speaker 1:In this new age and I'm really more talking to my Niji people, people who come from the hood, who come from the struggle In this new day and age, you have to have multiple streams of income, multiple bags. So what we need to do before the new year starts is try to figure out what's in your bag. What is your creator bag, what does it consist of? And don't start thinking, oh my God, I'm not a creator, I can't create nothing. Listen, it's the lies that you tell yourself. That's the step number one is to get out of your head. Stop telling yourself negative things that you can't do or what you won't do or that you don't want to do. When you get into your creator bag, you learn how to create something from nothing. That's the part of going from hood to hood. You see how we did that. You see how you turn the hood, the H-O-O-D, into hooded. You created something from the hood. Like. For me, I created something from being from the hood. Like I have a testimony to tell, I have a story to tell that can help other people get on track. Getting into your creator bag is something that is going to be vital to success, especially in the new year, just because I mean we're all capable of being creators. I mean you were born, like I said, a creator. You were meant to create something.
Speaker 1:So let's start by let's mention some things that you can be creative and do in the new year. You can be a baker and be creative and do in the new year. You can be a baker, bake cookies, cakes, pies. You can cook different food. There's so many creators who are in that space where they create food, they share online and they just go viral because they're excellent cooks. They end up quitting their jobs and just doing that full time. So cooking, that's like the easiest, one number one thing to create. You'll see on my YouTube channel, I do a lot of smoothie bowls at home, naturally, so I just use these videos of me making these smoothie bowls to connect with more people who want to eat healthier and just to grow my audience, because, yes, I'm a dentist and, yes, I have a niche which is giving dentistry. That's not the only thing that Dr Shon is about, and this is how you get into your creator bag. You don't limit yourself just because somebody said, oh, you should only talk about this or you should only do this niche. No, do all the things that make you who you are.
Speaker 1:Even just from a young woman, or even in my teenage years, or even my college years, I always had this inkling desire to just do multiple things. I was in school. I wanted to be a photographer. I wanted to go to dental school. I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I wanted to do so many things. But at some part in your life, for instance, when I was in my 20s and I had all these ideas, I had to focus only on dentistry, because that required so much of my creator mindset. It required so much. So sometimes you have to get into a niche and focus on that, but that doesn't mean that that is all that you are. That's not all that you are. You can still do so much more, but some periods of time will require you to sit there in that space.
Speaker 1:But in this new year, if you're not in that journey of your life where you have to strictly focus on one thing, get into your creator bag, find some, sell some products. What product are you going to be selling? Is it going to be digital? Is it going to be physical, you know, are you providing a service? Like dentistry is a service business, because people come in, I do their, I work on their teeth, give them their goals, and that's a service. Digital digital is like ebooks, for instance, my positive vibes only syndrome book. You can't really see it there, but this is a physical product, but this also is available as a digital product so you can get into products like that. You can create a brand to sell, you can make candles, you can make bracelets. You can do so much, guys.
Speaker 1:So before we go on with this list, just think to yourself what is in my creator bag? What am I creating? What am I producing? How am I increasing my streams of income and having more product to sell? I think it was a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1:I was listening, maybe, to a YouTube video or reading something on Google and I saw that oh, I think it was on Netflix. There's this show called Buy, buy, buy. Or there's like a new documentary about how Amazon gets people to just buy so much of their merch right and how all of these different stores have so much merch and they just don't care. They don't have one product. So just think about it. You're struggling to sell one product, but Amazon and Alibaba and Shein and all of these different things pretty little things. They have thousands of products to sell to you, thousands of options every day that people can go on and pick from, depending on who the person is. They didn't just say, oh, I have one product, let me stop there. No, they have thousands of products.
Speaker 1:So when you think about just the magnitude of that fact, think about what could you sell right now that could get you so many. Don't think about just the magnitude of that fact. Think about what could you sell right now that could get you so many. Don't think about how you're going to get customers, how you're going to market it. Don't think about that part yet. What could you sell or give back to other people that could help them in their life, but also, as a reward to you, help you get into your bag.
Speaker 1:Like, when you're creating things. Number one, it has to have a purpose. Number two, it has to help someone. And number three, it has to be worth it. Like, don't just go creating things just because you know. I mean you can like it, but make sure that it has a purpose and that you have kind of like a plan for your journey into being a creator and getting into your creator bag, because that's what we talk about in this podcast Getting into your creator bag.
Speaker 1:So, for me, I've been dipping and dabbling into my creator bag, but not fully. I'm being monetized on different social media platforms Facebook, instagram, not YouTube yet, but these are different, slower streams of income. In order to really get into your creator bag, you really need to own the platform, own the product, own the audience. A lot of these social media sites they don't really give you the opportunity to own the audience. So you have to make an email list, have your website together, have things in place where your audience can literally find you. Okay, so that's what it means to get into your creator bag. Being a YouTuber is a fun way to be a creator, but a lot of people are shy, they don't want to talk in front of others or they are worried about who's going to judge them. All these different things come into your head. So when you're a creator, there is a such thing as creator's block. So just recognize this and know what it is. So creator's block is kind of like writer's block.
Speaker 1:Some people lost their creativity in elementary school, middle school, high school. They lost it a long, long time ago. They lost it because the hood took them out. The hood gave them nothing but negative images, put them in jail, told them that they couldn't be successful, stripped the money away from the hood, from the community. They don't even have any resources to start with.
Speaker 1:And people who are like that, they just give up on their creator gene, even though it's still there, it's lying dormant. They just fall for the nine to five. They go to work, paycheck to paycheck, pay to pay. All of these things that are set up to be a trap. You're never going to get out of the hole just doing that setup. Okay, I need my hoods, hood and mentees to understand that you will never get out of that trap just doing the setup where you just go to work. It's not going to work. Going to work just ain't going to work. Some people it might work because that's the life that they want. They don't wanna be no creator. They don't want to. They're comfortable. Now, if you comfortable where you at, I am not talking to you. I'm talking about the people who wanna go from hood to hooded, from poor and poverty, paycheck to paycheck to wealthy. Okay, this is our journey and we're on this journey together because, god knows, I am not wealthy yet, but this is what it means to be a creator. You just keep creating content, you keep creating products, you keep creating on your journey and one day, all it takes is one day for your whole entire life to change. When you're on your creator journey, watch how God works a miracle in your life.
Speaker 1:For me, like this podcast, is another thing that I'm starting, and this year I have been so imperfect with it. Even last year, I started this podcast. It didn't go far. This year, I started it again and we made it to November, guys. So we got to pat ourselves on the back when we create something that is in its infancy and it's still growing and it needs a lot more work. Guess what? You don't quit, you do not give up, because, guess what? Somebody need to hear this message.
Speaker 1:Somebody is sitting in the hood right now, paycheck to paycheck, stressing about bills. I know I stress about bills every day. It's like where these motherfuckers come from, where do they be coming from? It's like you just paid yesterday, it's due again today. I totally get it. I totally get it guys.
Speaker 1:So that's why, as we enter this next season, I want us to start thinking about what type of creator are you? What are you going to create and getting your feminine energy or your masculine energy and give back to the world? We need you. Are you going to create music? Are you going to create books? Are you going to create motivational speeches, poems? What are you going to do? Are you going to create a daycare? Are you going to create some type of new device and patent it? Going to create some type of new device and patent it? The options are literally endless once you turn on that creator gene. So this video is really to get you to turn on your creator gene, realize that it's still there, even if you lost it back in grade school, it is still there. It's still there. But what puts your creator gene to sleep is going to work every day, eight to five, nine to five.
Speaker 1:You know being a parent and having to put your kids first, and you know putting yourself last and just going every week with this mundane life, never going on vacation, never having anything to do anything extra and just feeling all of that like a burden on you. It feels like a big burden. You can't travel, you can't really do anything extra and just feeling all of that like a burden on you. It feels like a big burden. You can't travel, you can't really do anything, you cannot live your best life if you don't start creating. You have to start creating, even if it doesn't go well.
Speaker 1:I see so many people make these videos about why YouTube is important, even if you get no viewers. This is the same thing with your bag. If you want to get into your creator bag, make money from what you create. The best thing that you could do, guys and I'm not going to even make this podcast long, but the best thing that you could do is to start. You have to start. That's why you're going to create something out of nothing. You have to start. You must start. It is required for you to start this journey so that you can tell your story about how difficult it was and how you started from nothing.
Speaker 1:Find other inspirational people who have done it, who started in their garages, who started with just six cans like Coca-Cola. Think about it. Coca-cola is so big nowadays I just say that word. Everybody knows what it is, but guess what? They started, I think, in their garage and they sold six cans of Coke their first year. Just six cans. A lot of us, if we sell 10 cans, 20 cans, 100 cans, we still going to quit. They had six cans, sold six cans and they did not quit. So just think about some of those success stories about people who created something.
Speaker 1:In the beginning it did not go the way that it was supposed to go. I just heard an interview on Club Shay Shay with KeKe Palmer and she talked about how when they recorded Akilah and the Bee this is a movie about the spelling bee and when they recorded it and they put it out and it was at the movies and tanked like it did not do good, it bombed, it didn't do well at all. But, like she said, a couple of years later, once DVDs came out, the movie kind of just took off and blew back up. And this is how you create something. You don't create it for what's happening right now. You're creating it for other people to one day find, later use and later you get the rewards for you, get the accolades for it. So when you're creating something, just put your love into it, put your heart into it, but don't sit two, three years trying to create one thing, like I just said. I said all these things for a reason those companies like Amazon and Shein and you know pretty little things these people have thousands and thousands of products. Like Amazon, I don't have over a hundred thousand products, probably more than that, a million products, who knows? With Amazon, Shein, 120,000. Go check out that documentary on Netflix and how they just want you to keep buying and buying and buying. That's not the goal, but the purpose is for you to think bigger, to think outside of the box, and this is also for me.
Speaker 1:You guys know that in these Hood to Hooded podcasts, I'm also talking to myself because I am not perfect. I have not been on this earth that long. Every day, I admit that I am learning. I'm also talking to myself because I am not perfect. I have not been on this earth that long. Every day I admit that I am learning. I'm learning how to be more of myself. I'm learning about who I am. On my genealogy journey, which I will get to in another video, I'm learning about what things that I create or that I can create that feel good to me or that align with my purpose. That's why I keep coming back to this podcast because I like doing this podcast. I like showing up on the camera giving positive information, finding those questions that people have, and showing up on here. It just gets hard because I'm also a dentist, so some days I'm a little burnt out.
Speaker 1:But you cannot make excuses See how I just made that excuse Like those are the excuses that will keep you out of your creator bag. Those are the excuses that will keep you stuck in poverty and stuck living a life that you do not enjoy, and we want to get away from that. All 2025 guys, I need you to be thinking away from that. All 2025 guys, I need you to be thinking how can I get into my creator bag? How can I manifest a better life for myself? How can I show up more and be present and really put out my creation and not feel embarrassed you know, embarrassed or feel like a little hesitant, because a lot of times people create things they don't put it out because they're scared about what the world is going to think. Well, listen, baby, remember the first step is creation is you have to love what you do. Number two, you have to do it and make sure that it aligns with your purpose. So that way, regardless of who approves or doesn't approve, you approve. That's the only approval you really need. But number three, it has to be for other people. So learn how to turn your purpose and what you love to do into something that can help other people.
Speaker 1:And I have this Positive Vibes book here because this is a book that I created. I just had the idea because I wanted a product right. So I said you know, I'm gonna make this positive vibes only syndrome book and even though it's not like a bestseller or still under the radar, one day this book could be, it could. I could sell millions of copies because I own the copyrights and it's a product right. So don't feel bad. And I and I go through this book and I'm a product right, so don't feel bad. And I go through this book and I'm like dang, I could have did this or I should have did this, or you know, but the fact is that you created something All right. So I'm not going to talk your heads off in this one.
Speaker 1:I just wanted us to touch a little bit on the creativity that God gave us and I wanted us to really realize how important it is to never let that go, and even if you lost your creator bag, even if you kind of don't know what to create, just start with the things you love doing. Every day. I started posting smoothie bowl videos and they're so easy for me to make because this is what I'm eating now and if I can get a couple dollars off of just sharing that, then why not? You know, it's about having those multiple streams of income and just sticking to your purpose and staying true to who you are kings and queens. So I hope this message helps someone out there who is just stuck on the island like I don't know what to create, doc, I don't know, I don't know. Get out of your head, please get out of your head. If anything, just get on YouTube and share your testimony about how God has brought you from a mighty long way. If anything, get on YouTube and share your journey about your love of cooking. Start you a cooking channel. If you like to do makeup, start a makeup channel and just do one video. Don't worry about the camera, don't worry about the mic, don't worry about any of that stuff. Just start. Just start creating and get out of the mindset you know what'm gonna be a worker forever. That ain't gonna. That ain't gonna cut it next year. It's just not gonna cut it.
Speaker 1:I'm here to warn y'all, I'm here to tell y'all. We have to do more hood to hooded mentees. We gotta be ahead of the game, all right? All right, we gotta be ahead of the game, okay. So I'm out of here. I will see you guys in the next podcast. I just wanted to get on here before it turns from one week, from two weeks to three weeks, and I had to get on here and give y'all a message. I want these gaps between my podcast to shorten.
Speaker 1:But, just like this topic is talking about, I have to get out of my own head and just create the content and not worry about am I going to say the right thing? Am I going to help people? Am I saying things that's going to help people? You can't even worry about all of that. Is this video going to have flaws? Yes, it's going to have flaws. Do I care Sometimes? But I'm not gonna let that stop me, all right. So don't let anything stop you in this day, guys. Um, have a wonderful remainder of the year and let's get into our creative, all right. So this is Dr Shon with the motivational not motivational dentistry. This is Dr Sean, the motivational dentist here. Here with another Hood to Hooded podcast and all aboard the Hood to Hooded Express, we are headed to success. Bye guys.
