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
Breaking Generational Curses: From Homeless Doctor to Practice Owner (PART 2)
From homelessness in New York while treating patients at Brooklyn hospital to owning a dental practice, my journey demonstrates that with persistence and self-belief, you can overcome seemingly impossible obstacles and break generational curses.
• Experienced homelessness twice, including while working as a doctor in New York
• Struggled with serious health issues from endometriosis treatment during final year of dental school
• Received no congratulations or support when opening dental practice
• Discovered indigenous heritage which transformed self-perception and provided strength
• Committed to consistency and showing up daily despite challenges
• Breaking generational curses requires refusing to quit even when everyone else counts you out
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you guys, I had my mic off this whole entire time that I was just live on my last broadcast. So after I did my review video for being homeless in New York and telling you guys how I was homeless in New York the YouTube video of me being homeless in New York sleeping in the car and I talked about how I was also homeless before I moved to New York and how it's difficult to get people to help you. After you cross that stage to become a doctor, everybody think you are already some type of wealthy person. But not only did I experience homelessness, I experienced sickness, I experienced being broken. I experienced being broken. I experienced just being depressed and feeling like a failure in some sense. And then having to move to New York City, a place where they say, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, and also ending up homeless, sleeping in the car. Okay, homeless, sleeping in the car, not the entire time, but sleeping in the car, getting up in, but sleeping in the car. Getting up in the morning, going to the brooklyn hospital, seeing patients, being amongst my other colleagues, them not knowing my situation, and just having to hold my head up high and be strong. This is what I experienced. So the hoods and hooded project is all about just showing you that you can survive anything, even such as this damn mic being off. I'm baffled, but this is a learning experience. To double check, triple check, it's just a learning experience for me, but, like I said, you can survive anything, even when you feel broken, even when you make a mistake, even when they don't give you a seat at the table, even when you don't have the right door to go through. You can overcome anything, anything that you want to put your mind to. It is possible. I survived homelessness, I survived not having my parents, I survived poverty to make it to a place where most people would have counted me out a long time ago, and people going to count you out they're going to count you out, counted me out a long time ago, and people going to count you out they're going to count you out Tell you that you can't do it Because they couldn't do it. But you got diamonds inside of your skin. You have diamonds inside of your brain. You have diamonds inside of your heart, your melanin, your copper tone skin, my Niji is amazing. They have lied to us so bad with the history About us being from Africa, the people over here who are actually indigenous to America, the married Indians, and it's just mind boggling. But today I'm here to tell you that you can overcome anything.
DR. SHON:When I was homeless, sleeping in that car, going into the hospital to treat patients, I had one thing on my mind to break generational curses. To break generational curses, I could have easily stayed in Nashville, I could have easily went back home. But I said I have to do this. I have something to prove. I cannot give up on myself. I will break generational curses. So when I was showing up feeling defeated, sick, I said I can't let this break me down. I can't.
DR. SHON:Even when I was in Nashville, I was sleeping in a homeless shelter A couple nights. I said I can't be here. I got to get up. I would get up in the morning and just watch the people and just feel like dang, I'm taking up a spot from somebody who might need it more than me. Yes, I need this right now. And they were so helpful. I think it's called a Nashville mission. I so helpful, I think it's called a nashville mission. I don't remember but I was. That's a crazy story, how I ended up there. That's just a crazy story. I went into a rage, got out of the car and just ran away. It was just crazy. The lupron was a chemo drug that I took. It had me going crazy. It had me so sick.
DR. SHON:This is my d4 year of dental school. Imagine you're almost done with dental school, right, and you go to the doctor and they say you need an emergency surgery. And I'm like, no, I ain't taking no damn, I'm not having no surgery. I'm about to graduate. We got the party. I got parties. I got a graduation party. We got the care belly ball. We got no, that's not happening. I didn't study all these years just to get to the end and be like you need a surgery, you're gonna be out for six weeks and now you're gonna make up your stuff. It was just a nightmare learning that I needed a surgery regardless. They told me it was emergency surgery. I had to do the surgery. So I had to quit not quit school, stop school for a couple weeks, six weeks to be exact have, stay on bed rest and then I had to go back and try to catch up.
DR. SHON:In the middle of that, they told me my endometriosis was terrible. So they put me on this drug called a Lupron shot. The Lupron is a chemo shot that they use for prostate cancer, but they also use it for endometriosis and I didn't want to do that either. I rebelled, rebelled, rebelled. But they said it's gonna make me feel better. The bad thing is it puts you in clinical menopause. So it put me in clinical menopause. I was walking around the dental clinic with a fan. I was having hot flashes. It was just crazy. The second time they gave me the shot I was in the er. Every other day respiratory problems, heart problems. This strong, it was so strong.
DR. SHON:I was in the bed for two to three weeks and it wasn't until somebody said hey, if you don't get up out this bed, you're going to lose your degree and you might not make it. I was on the verge of dying. I fought through that, got out of that bed. I said, yeah, I'm not about to take my degree. I got to get up out this bed. I can't sit here. I fought through and I pretended like I wasn't sick. But I was sick as hell. But I had to fight through. I could not quit on myself. I couldn't quit Even though there was every reason, every motive right there for me to quit on myself. I couldn't quit, I had to keep going. I couldn't let it go. I had to show up. I had to show up for myself, regardless. So tonight, guys, just show up for yourself. You're going to make some mistakes, like me sitting here recording the whole 45 minutes of me motivating, motivational speaking, and it not being recorded.
DR. SHON:It was interesting watching myself back then homeless in this city, new York City, and now here running a demo practice. So you can go from hood to hooded. You can go from hood to homeless to hooded, you can go from hooded to homeless. But whatever you don't quit, you can tenfold, ten times, nine times, a hundred times, but whatever you do, you gotta get back up. You gotta get back up, rise back up, be the best that you can be every single day.
DR. SHON:We are here to break those generational curses, the generational curses of poverty, feeling like nothing is working. And sometimes that's how it is, even in this dental practice, people look at me like I got a dental practice, so I'm a millionaire and I'm just. I'm trying to figure it out. Every day is on the brink of not figuring it out, but I try to figure it out and that's the most important thing. You have to keep trying and trying and people don't understand coming from nothing and, like I said, said when I started this practice I didn't even get a card to say congrats, doc, I'm proud of you for having this practice. Or I didn't get one card from family nor friends to say congratulations on opening your dental practice, we're proud of you.
DR. SHON:So for a while last year, when it was really rough here, I got so depressed and defeated and I just wanted to walk away from it all because everybody was looking at me like I already had it and I'm already made and I was here really on my last thread. I was on my last thread, mentally, physically, burnt out in the bed for two to three weeks, just feeling like it's all, like I had this dry spot where it was just too much for me and I felt like I couldn't do it. I couldn't come here and treat patients and go home and feel broken, confused and short-staffed and dealing all of these issues. I feel like I couldn't do it until I got to a sweet spot and I realized my heritage. I did my genealogy, I I did my genealogy, learned about my great grandmothers and grandfathers and learned that we were indigenous. It changed my perspective and it made me feel like, oh, this copper skin is worth something.
DR. SHON:Melanin is a defense mechanism against the sun and uv rays. Melanin is amazing, it protects us. I have been taught that to hate my skin, to hate how I look, that chocolate wasn't beautiful, even though my mama told me. My mother told me melanin is beautiful the darker the melon, the deeper the roots. But here in america, when it's colonized and they have, they worship people like christopher columbus, who was such a narcissist and a loser. They promote him like he did something great. And I read his journal and I'm like who is this crazy, psychotic, delusional man that they gave a holiday? And I knew then that the history that I had been learning was a fluke. It was a fluke. It was a source of oppression for my people and their mindset, a source to reclassify us for somebody who had never touched foot on turtle island my kneeji. So it was just a source of depression.
DR. SHON:So once I learned about all of that, fighting through the lack of support which has become a theme for me is I don't know, I don't know what it is, just don't know what it is, but I'm going to keep going. One thing I ain't going to do is not be a gold digger baby, because guess what? Life don't stop Life going to keep going. Regardless, I'm going to show up. Believe, please believe, and trust that I'm gonna show up. And that's what I want to motivate you to do is to show up. You've been counted out, doors been slammed in your face. You done tripped and fell a couple times, feeling broken, feeling defeated. But you need to show up. Show up for yourself. Don't take life too serious. Don't take life, take it serious, but also just relax and chill out. Just like me, I just talked for a whole 45 minutes y'all and forgot to turn my mic back on, and I don't have an audience to say hey, doc, your mic ain't on, I'm just gonna laugh about it. That's all I could do is laugh about it. This is how it is. Some things are lessons. Some things are just here to show you to double check, triple check. It's just a lesson. Life goes on, guys. It really does go on, and I'm here as a living proof that it goes on, that you can still get out of any situation.
DR. SHON:I remember when I was in Nashville, homeless, had to sell all my stuff to move to New York, coming to New York, showering at the gym, using the bathroom at Walgreens at night Because you know the bathroom situation is limited, and then going to the hospital to do my work for eight hours and nobody even knowing that I was sleeping in the car. Sleeping in my car and I called a family member said hey, I was short one day. I said I need a hundred dollars. I said you don't have a hundred dollars. They said it's so condescending, as if I wasn't a doctor and I wasn't in this general practice residency program trying to make some out of myself. They said you ain't got a hundred dollars. I didn't have a hundred dollars either way. They didn't give it to me. Homeless doctor can't even get a hundred dollar loan from a family member.
DR. SHON:Hood to hood it. That should let you know how hood the shit is. But guess what? I didn't even know I had three hundred dollars sitting in my account. I went back after that phone call. I'm just checking. I said dang, I got my own $300. That's how it feels when you show up for yourself. I forgot that I even had that money.
DR. SHON:I'm thinking I need somebody else. All I needed was to rely on myself and stay focused. The people who will help will show up. That's why I believe my tribe is coming. They just don't know that I'm here yet. But they coming, baby, believe me. Baby, I know y'all out there, baby, they coming and we're gonna have a good old time chopping it up and learning and growing and debating and chilling and breaking generational curses, financially, spirituallyancially, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, on every single level, because we lit like that. We are amazing people, wonderfully made, and we can overcome any obstacles, whether you sleeping in the car, whether you fighting for your degree, whether you like me, trying to run a business, a dental practice or any type of business.
DR. SHON:And you stress out sometimes me, I stress out a lot about this business, but anything worth having won't be easy. So I said I want to diversify and do other things and become this streamer and I have all of these different dreams and goals. But guess what? My dreams come true because I don't quit on them. So somebody might be like girl, she crazy talking about going live 365 day. Girl, you crazy. I ain't doing that crazy, I'm delulu like that. Y'all already know how delulu I am. Like that. I don't even play with my dreams like that.
DR. SHON:Like I said, I was depressed last year, a little broken, but I bounced back. You gotta bounce back. I feel like my depression stems from losing my mother. Ever since I was eight years old, just not having her has been like a forever ache in my heart. It never goes away. Mother's day doesn't go away. Her birthday doesn't go away. I just got better and not crying all the time or being so emotional, because before I was an emotional person. I'm gonna going to follow my dreams. But I'm also going to cry because I'm emotional, I'm sensitive, I'm a Pisces, so I'm emotional. But losing her I will always, forever feel like a tear in my heart. My heart will never heal from hearing that your mother isn't here. It will never heal from that.
DR. SHON:And just having parents and alcohol planning life in your alcohol and substance abuse issues and incarceration all these things that you see and witness as a child. Like it goes with you watching women get beat on Like it go. You watch this stuff and people don't think you remember seeing this. But I remember seeing all of these things and thinking, damn, I got to get out of the hood. This is just. I got to get out of the hood. To get out of the hood To study every day, To show up for myself, to get into a doctoral program and then to have to take care of five people while in that program three children, four children and a grown man. That could have took me out too.
DR. SHON:The burnout is real. The generational curses are real, baby, that's why you have to fight for yourself. I had to say, hey, you guys, I can't keep taking care of people and braiding hair all night and being in the doctoral program. What am I doing? I'm gonna kill myself. So life will move you around, it'll push you around, it'll make you wake up and it'll break you and it'll shake you. That's just how life is. It's gonna take you up and through there.
DR. SHON:I had my patient today, elderly over 90, tell me hey, I'm not easy on myself. She's still hey, I'm not easy on myself. I said, hey, I gotta stop being so easy on myself. So I'm showing up. I can't be easy on myself. We can't survive being easy on ourselves like that. Don't be hard on yourself, but don't be too easy.
DR. SHON:You know, when you just start to be lazy and procrastinating and don't show up and quitting every time and complaining, because complaining ain't gonna do a thing, complaining won't do a thing. We can sit here and complain until you blue, black, red, purple, green in the face and it won't do a thing. You know what will do something writing your goals down, starting to take action on your goals, making a list and doing it, completing it every single day. Waking up and feeling like you know that you're gonna win today and, even if you have those obstacles, thinking like let me slow down and handle this whatever I lose. This ain't for me, it's not for me. Waking up to break those generational curses, to escape poverty and this colonized mindset in the matrix. Waking up and knowing who you are. This is important, guys. It is important.
DR. SHON:If you are listening to this on the hood to the podcast or on the youtube live, then I definitely appreciate you. Make sure you are subscribed to the channel. You can visit any of the links to support this live or this video. You can buy a coffee. You can go to my wish list. You can do whatever. You can support the merch. So many ways for you to support the hood to hood podcast and also the twitch stream.
DR. SHON:365 days of showing up either way, I'm still gonna show up for you guys, just to connect. I'll be here whenever you arrive, just make sure when you hear this message you go ahead and hit that follow button. I'm excited to see who's gonna be my fifth follower on twitch. I have four. I've been standing at four for a while, but I know we headed to five. Baby, we headed to five and I don't know who that's going to be. But I thank you in advance and I'm going to get off of here. I will see you guys tomorrow For day 10.
DR. SHON:But we made it through day 9. Turn up. Dr Shawn is all the way live. Dr Shawn is all the way live. Dr Sean is all the way live. Dr Sean is all the way live. Dr Sean is all the way live.
DR. SHON:And I'm strong and I'm wonderful and I'm amazing. You gotta tell yourself that. Speak that self. Love. Baby. Say I'm strong, I'm amazing. Something wonderful is gonna happen to me today. I know I got my dreams in a bag.
DR. SHON:Baby, you can't stop this glow up. We got consistency, discipline minus procrastination. We headed for a glow up, baby CDP. Get winning or get lost. You already know that we're going from hood to hooded. We're going from generational curses to hooded. We're going from stereotypes and feeling broken and defeated to hooded. We're elevating in every single way. We're not procrastinating, we're not delaying our success. We're showing up. Today, even when you make a mistake, you still show up. You got to turn that car, car around, put it in reverse, back it up and back it up. Yeah, we gotta turn it around, skirt and back it up. Don't let those mistakes stop you guys don't sit here and dwell on it. So just watching myself tonight, watching reflecting on the video of me homeless in new york, it was an eye opener. It let you know how far you can come, how far I came, and how there is no quitting. No quitting allowed, nope, nope. We staying consistent. Baby, I'm showing up, we staying consistent.
DR. SHON:Day nine was crazy. What do I want to remember about day nine, number one, day nine. What do I want to remember about day nine? Day nine how am I feeling on day nine? I feel the momentum. I feel like I got a little momentum to keep with this 365 days.
DR. SHON:I feel like it's a little bit difficult, but I can't stop in the middle. I can't stop right here, because nobody going to know that I quit, but me. But I ain't going to stop in the middle. So I feel like I can't quit. I'm so far away from my goal, but I'm also too deep in to turn back now or just be like you know what bump all this. I'm too invested. I'm too invested and I'm feeling like dang.
DR. SHON:I can't really believe that I did nine days in a row. I can't even believe it. I believe in myself. I can't believe it. I believe in myself, but I can't believe it. I believe in myself, but I can't believe it. This is not a studio mic, dr sean. This is not the studio and you are not making the song right now, so chill the freak out. But yeah, I feel like I'm believing in myself more and more every day.
DR. SHON:It's getting easier for me to hit the live button without feeling so much anxiety and getting used to talking to myself in this room on twitch, because I know everybody had to start here and just knowing that I'm different and that my journey is different and I'm on later. So I just have to keep showing up till my replay viewers. Just show up, that's it. But I just feel like day nine. I'm always gonna be a little exhausted after practicing dentistry all day, but I just look at it like dental school. Dental school you. You go to school, monday through Friday, eight to five. Sometimes you did earlier and all the time you did later and you study all night and you just got to push through. You got gotta find that oomph. You gotta find that extra oomph every day for four years. You gotta just I'm tired. But I gotta push to another level.
DR. SHON:When they talk about we only use 10 of our brain and there's another level that we can use, I feel like when you go through the dental school experience, it, the dental school experience it pushes you to use a whole another one percent. I ain't gonna go too far. So you're using three, four, five percent, but I feel you're using a whole another, maybe one to three percent of your brain, because it really be like damn, I ain't know I can learn all this. That's how I felt in dental school. I might just be the only one, but I'm sure I'm not. It's like I ain't know I could learn all of this stuff.
DR. SHON:Yeah, it's like that, it is, it's really like that. So it's coming from that and doing this consistency project. Similar, it's similar, but the only thing with this isn't like a. This isn't dental school, isn't a forest, but this isn't like a forest. This is something I'm just doing in my free time, which I don't really have free time, but I'm you make time for the things that you really want to do, so I'm just doing it just to see the outcome and getting over my twitch fear. I think I'm getting over my twitch fear. I am. I literally am. Yeah, guys, day 10 is on the way. Before we go, you already know, brush and floss your teeth tonight. Goodbye, chat. I will see you guys tomorrow for another live. I will see you guys tomorrow for another live. I will see you guys tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. I love you Tomorrow. Only five minutes, wait, yeah, peace.
