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.
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Your Money Should Work While You Sleep
Money isn't real—but if you don't master its rules, you'll forever remain trapped in the matrix of financial struggle. This powerful truth forms the foundation of a transformative journey through financial literacy, cultural identity, and breaking generational curses.
The stark reality hits hard: only 24% of millennials demonstrate basic financial literacy, while communities of color face predatory lending at three times the rate of others. With the average Black household net worth sitting at just $17,150 compared to $171,000 for white households, the need for financial education has never been more urgent. But this isn't just about numbers—it's about reclaiming power.
We explore ten practical strategies to develop financial literacy, from free apps that track spending to shadowing successful business owners. The path to wealth building becomes accessible through learning about credit, investing, and creating passive income streams that work while you sleep. The message resonates clearly: you don't have to work your whole life for minimum wage when you can learn to leverage money as a tool for freedom.
Beyond finances, we dive into the profound connection between genealogy, identity, and breaking free from mental constraints. Discovering your true ancestral heritage—especially for those who identify as American Indigenous Indian (Niiji)—can radically transform your self-perception and confidence. This knowledge serves as the ultimate foundation for building wealth with purpose and pride in who you truly are.
The CDP formula—Consistency plus Discipline minus Procrastination—emerges as the framework for sustainable growth in any area of life. Whether through content creation, developing marketable skills, or pursuing education, breaking generational curses requires deliberate action starting today.
Ready to transform your relationship with money and reclaim your power? This episode provides the blueprint for your journey from survival mode to prosperity through knowledge, identity, and purposeful action. The world needs what you have to offer—don't wait another day to begin.
Thanks for listening and growing with me on this journey towards the ultimate level of success. #Hood2hooded #drshon #drshonconsistencyproject #consistencyproject
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This is day 11 of Dr Shon's 365 Consistency Challenge. Welcome back to another episode of the Hood to Hooded Broadcast. This is a place where we turn pain into power, poverty into prosperity and dreams into a reality. I'm , Dr. Shon host, and I am a dentist by day, dream builder by night, and this is day 11 of the 365 day consistency challenge. Tonight, this is what we're covering. We're covering financial literacy for the culture and why it matters and how you can get started, my Niiji. We're also covering genealogy, identity and escaping the matrix, because the matrix is real. And number three, oral health, equals real wealth. The latest facts about oral cancer as this is April is oral cancer. April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month and, as a dentist, every podcast has to include some type of oral health tip reminder to brush and floss your teeth or something related to the oral cavity. And finally, tonight, guys, we'll wrap it up with the CDP mindset and 10 ways to break generational curses. Today, let's go to segment one, which is financial literaries literacy for the culture.
Dr. Shon:When I was a student in high school, middle school, all of these grades we really didn't have financial literacy. In high school, I did take up a program called about face which kind of taught me about business. They paid us like a weekly stipend of $60. I was that kid from the hood that was most certainly trying to figure out a way to escape poverty. I joined the About Face program and we would go after school and learn about profits. Losses, won a couple awards for running the best little kiddie business. I had my friend gracie in the program and we just it was a way for me to make money.
Dr. Shon:I was always eager to learn about financial literacy. Even though I didn't have that type of dialogue going on in the home, I was eager to find out about it. I took it upon myself. Sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to grow your mind, to make you some change, because I'm like I gotta get me some better school clothes, look cute. I was a teenager. I wanted my nails done. I was just trying to get some money. I was also intelligent.
Dr. Shon:These programs that you can find in your community. Sometimes they can expose you to financial literacy. But you must seek these programs out Now, even if you don't have it. Nowadays you can go to YouTube University to learn so much about money, how to grow it, how to invest, to help us break those generational curses. If you don't learn how money works, money will work against you, and that is the reality. Money is a tool that everyone must learn and it's such a shame that they don't teach financial literacy and even high school they don't teach it. In high school you start making money.
Dr. Shon:I got my first job on my 16th birthday because I was underserved and I needed money. I did hair. I was a little hustler as a teenager doing hair, pulling up, catching the bus, going to other people's houses, braiding hair until I got until my 16th birthday where I started working for McDonald's. But the reason why I was working was to buy nails and I wanted to buy a car and stuff like that. But we didn't learn about financial literacy in a sense of investing. It was just get a job, buy some clothes, move out pay bills. It wasn't really taught to invest and make your money work for you.
Dr. Shon:Even at Florida State University and shout out to the Seminoles. It's a tragedy happened yesterday. So we definitely want to be sensitive to that fact. But even at florida state I took a business minor. So I took classes in economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, personal financing, accounting 101 and 102. I took that minor because I was interested in business and money and financing, even though my major was mostly science-based, so there was always a passion to learn. So you want to keep that financial literacy urge while you're young to make your money grow.
Dr. Shon:They say money doesn't grow on trees, but money is made from cotton, which is a plant and technically a tree is a plant, but it's not technically a tree. But money does grow on plants and the thing about it is money is the major topic right now, with the tariffs and the government trying to control things. But we as people must know that money is not backed by gold. I can I repeat this because that's why all these things are happening with the economy because it's not backed by gold. Other countries are pulling out and the money is losing its value. So we need to make more money to do the things you did yesterday and that required less money.
Dr. Shon:We want to make sure we are on top of the curve and absorbing this information in high school, in college, as business owners, as content creators, as just entrepreneurs. I want to discuss 10 ways for you to start learning financial literacy. The first way is to use free apps like Credit, karma or Mint to track your spending, the faster you learn how to budget and where your money is going. It will make your life so much easier so that you're not blowing your money on unnecessary things that don't contribute to your future. You want to make sure you are learning about credit and how it can improve your life, and there are so many other free apps out there Robin Hood, lots of free apps that you can start to learn to use to help them stay on track with money, so that it doesn't float through your hands like water. We don't want it to just flow through our hands and evaporate, so that way you have to work so hard and have a job and live paycheck to paycheck or go to payday loan places.
Dr. Shon:I've been there. I've been that student even in college going to those payday loan places. I've been there. I've been that student even in college going to those payday loan places because I was broke and I couldn't ask people for money. You got to get it how you can and I had to really wean myself off of that by just getting another job or making more money some kind of way, and back then I didn't know anything about investing and they didn't have these apps. It was different when I grew up, and then, if you are from an underserved background, it's even more difficult and unlikely that you will even know about investing and spending your money on things that pay you in your sleep. That's the trick get paid in your sleep. Find you something that can pay you while you sleep.
Dr. Shon:Number two watch youtube channels like earn your leisure or the budget nista or listen to the podcast, but these are other sources earn your leisure in the budget nista. They have a wealth of information that you can go and learn for free. You don't have to pay a tuition, you can learn for free. I went to grab these two books and this one is actually Budgetnista the Tiffany Aliche. Get good with money. Get good with money. Get good with money. Another book that I think is good for young people who are interested in financial literacy is it's About Damn Time how to turn being underestimated into your greatest advantage, and these are going to be on our reading list. Right now we are reading Eat that Frog and we'll get back into that book tomorrow.
Dr. Shon:Number three start a mock portfolio on apps like Public or Robinhood or TradeStation. You can actually create mock portfolios or you can go on TradeStation and have. You can do trading, but in a paper account where it's not a real trading, so you can learn how to do it versus starting. There are so many resources that you can use to just practice playing with money and using money as a tool before you actually get the money. Because when you get the money, you don't want to go and just spend it on crazy stuff like buying hair every month or buying Jordans every week. You want to try to invest into something that's going to make you the price of those Jordans every week. Maybe invest in the stock If you like finish line and you there all the time. Maybe invest in the stock If you like finish line and you're there all the time. Go invest in the stock so that way you can get paid from the people who buy the Jordans. You got to think on the other side of money.
Dr. Shon:Number four get a free copy of your credit report and study it while you're young. Understand credit, understand the numbers about credit. With credit, if you have excellent credit, you can get a lot of privileges that people who don't have excellent credit can't get approval for. You can get approval for houses, cars, business loans, all type of things, but if you come from underserved background, like me, from the hood, it's a high chance that you don't know about credit. And then when you get the credit, you abuse the credit because you don't know and it puts you into debt and this creates a terrible cycle where you never learn how to leverage your credit. So learn about it. Get a free copy of your credit report, evaluate it and start to understand what your number is and grow it. Don't stress about it, but just grow it and pay attention to it while you're young.
Dr. Shon:Number five shadow a business owner or accountant. Now this is something that I've talked about on this podcast shadowing If you are pre-dental or if you are pre-med or interested in any of those doctoral programs. Nine times out of 10, shadowing is a requirement. But if you are trying to get a doctoral program and you're trying to start a business, you can still shadow someone who is in that industry and start to network. We'll take baking, for example. If you want to start a bakery, you want to go and find people who already own a bakery. Ask them can you work part time? Can you work part time? Learn the ins and outs, not just, not just about what your position is, but ask some questions about ownership or tell me your ideas. Hey, I want to be in this industry as well. Some people are going to say, hey, you are competition and some people will help you because they understand that you have a passion. You just want to find good mentors who can help you in whatever type of business or industry that you are in.
Dr. Shon:For me, I shadowed a lot of dentists before I became a dentist. Number one to make sure I wanted to do it, and number two because you're going to see exactly what your future kind of looks like from outside, looking in. You don't want to commit to something and go through all those years of school and then realize this is something I really don't like doing. Yes, I complain about dentistry and being burnt out and don't know if it's for me, but at the heart and soul of my body, mind and spirit, dentistry is in my heart. There's no way you can go through that much schooling and not have a passion for it.
Dr. Shon:Yes, those days get tough and you feel some days I feel like I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I just feel like I have so much more to learn. But that's why it's the practice of dentistry so you want to just shout out business owners and learn from them. Be a sponge. Never stop learning. Even now I'm still a learner. There's so much I don't know. That's why I read books, I try to watch informative podcasts and I try to teach what I learned so that way it sticks. When you learn something and you go and teach it, you learn even more. In dental school we have so much information to absorb. A lot of the times we would teach each other just to make sure we really knew the information. That means that we have a big test coming up tomorrow. I should be able to get up to the whiteboard with my study buddies and friends and practice and teach them, and if I get something wrong, that means I really don't know it.
Dr. Shon:Another thing is learn about royalties and passive income. Can you write a book such as this book here that I am in the process of producing, the Hood to Hooded story? Can you create music, such as the song that I have out now called STFU it's my Birthday. Hey, turn up. Called STFU, it's my birthday. Hey, turn up, shout out if it's your birthday. Create digital products, ebooks, guys, start an email list. There's so many things you can do to create passive income and royalties. So royalties, what you hear a lot in the music industry when you get signed to a label, they steal your royalties. What you hear a lot in the music industry when you get signed to a label, they steal your royalties. That means the music that you're making they're going to get paid for and you get a little check, but in return they do a lot of the marketing. But what happens is people become very famous, their music becomes very famous, but they give up their rights. We want to create royalties and keep our royalties. We don't want to give it up. You see it so many times in the movies, with New Edition, with Chaka Khan, with Michael Jackson, with a lot of people, angie Stone but they all are upset about royalties or they were upset.
Dr. Shon:Number seven use cash stuffing or envelope budgeting. Cash stuffing or envelope budgeting. This is a way for you to put money aside just to save, so that you're not visually seeing your money in the account or on your car. So that way you can put it away and budget. Or if you have fifty dollars for the week, you want to separate it. That's not a lot nowadays, I'm just we're gonna say if, say, you have $200 for the week, because $50 is unrealistic. You want a budget. So you got $250 and you got to plan out the week. Number eight play free stock market stimulator games. That's like TradeStation you can stimulate buying stocks on the market, playing in Wall Street. All of that good stuff Practice, practice. Practice makes perfect. So that way we are not just spending money, we will be investing money.
Dr. Shon:Number 10, read beginner friendly books. Like Rich Dad, poor Dad that's one of my favorite books is well-known book about the rich dad versus the poor dad. The rich dad he was an investor, he had property. He was getting money in his sleep. The poor dad thought work hard, make the fake money. The money isn't even real. So we don't want to be like that, this money and state. Guys, don't work your whole life for a job for $8 an hour, struggling paycheck to paycheck, when you can go and create something, invent something, start a YouTube channel, Monetize your life, create some digital products, sell something, invest in the stock market, become a day trader. There's so many options, but you must learn about them. Here's a hard truth, guys Money isn't even real. I'll repeat Money isn't even real. I'll repeat money isn't even real. It's not backed by gold anymore. But if you don't master the rules, you will always be a pawn to the matrix.
Dr. Shon:Financial literacy is a cheat code to escape survival mode, something I didn't learn as a young adult, but it was a cheat code. If I had learned it, my life right now would be stronger. But we can't go backwards. We can only start here. So that's why hood to hood is important. It's a transition period. You go from one state of mind to an elevated state of mind. If you don't know it today, you can always learn and add a new skill to your life.
Dr. Shon:Now these stats really hit home. For me, guys, it really hit home. Only 24% of millennials show basic financial literacy. If you're a young adult, it's a high chance that only one out of four young adults have some sense of financial literacy. This automatically excludes children growing up in the projects in underserved environments or without parents. I didn't have my mom, my dad, in the house. I automatically had a double whammy against me. I was already had a double whammy. If it had not been for my mindset to go and find those little programs to get a little change and get a job, I wouldn't have any knowledge about money. I had to teach myself about money, which you don't really teach yourself financial literacy. You have to go out and find the information, guys, and don't just quit and just start spending money and be paycheck to paycheck for the rest of your life. Pause, take a break, chill for a second and let's learn some things.
Dr. Shon:Another stat that hits home is less than 20% of US high schools require personal finance. I took personal finance in college. I actually took a college class called actually personal finance. Take that in high school because it wasn't an option to learn about money, to learn about melanated history, indigenous history, the things that we, as Niiji, need to know, as indigenous Ameri-Indians need to know. And if you don't know, they reclassify African-Americans as well from they reclassified the American Indians, the melanin original, copper, tone people to black, negro, african-american. So when I say Niiji, I'm talking about the Indians, but if you African-American, maybe you don't know that you are from Turtle Island and that's a little deep, but we got to keep getting this through our heads, ok, guys.
Dr. Shon:Community this is another stat that hits home. Communities of color are three times more likely to experience predatory lending. This means that when you do go to buy a home. They're going to give you the highest interest rate. They're going to try to prey on you and make give you, put you in a situation that doesn't make sense. So you have to really be careful, no doubt about it. Be very careful now. The average black household net worth is only seventeen thousand five one hundred and fifty dollars, versus the white household $171,000. Now, let that sink in, guys. Now, if that ain't something that is disturbing, which gives us like a cry out for financial literacy, a cry out for just understanding money and reinvesting in ourselves.
Dr. Shon:Of course there has been incidents like black wall street and all those bombings that happened, where they destroyed black wealth and then made those people rely on the government. This has been going on since the colonizers arrived here on Turtle island. They destroyed the homes, they burnt things, they destroy everything, rewrote history, told a bunch of lies, just like Christopher Columbus. He was a one of the biggest liars ever and they made him a hero when he stole things, renamed people. Walter plecker reclassified everything. You can see how, over time, with so much war going on and the creation of poverty to the American Indians, was created, aka the black people. That's why there's such a wealth gap.
Dr. Shon:There's an urgency to close this wealth gap and go from hood to hood and break those generational curses where we don't have the mindset to want more or do more or be more or strive for more, or just be creative and dreamers and gold diggers. We gotta get out of that mindset and be the best that we can do and, every day, grow, learn, stand on business about your mind, your knowledge and the things that you allow inside of your head, because you are not a slave. Your ancestors if you are Niiji, a lot of us are from America. Our ancestors were here. They were inhabitants. That's why on the census borough we are listed as inhabitants, not immigrants, not any of that shit. And I was just so stunned I in tears, I was disturbed last year when I found this out, all the secrets about who we truly are. And I'm so happy that the veil is coming off and that we, as Niiji, are spreading the word, regardless of all the backlash that we may face.
Dr. Shon:This segment is called genealogy, identity and escaping the matrix. It's the perfect time to be a butterfly and spread your wings and get out of the matrix. It's the perfect time. We can't stay stuck, we just can't genealogy. Y'all ready to get into it? Let's get into it. Genealogy.
Dr. Shon:I don't celebrate easter and here's why I've learned too much about our true history to keep pretending I identify as American indigenous indian, Niiji Amerindian a Aboriginal to Turtle Island, coppertone okay, not the label that the government prescribed for us to take away our heritage, our confidence and to make us feel less than I don't identify as that anymore. No, because when I identify as this slave and didn't know who my ancestors were, it made me feel low, it made me feel lost and it made me feel like a kind of always sad and feeling less than once. I discovered that I was American Indian after doing my genealogy on ancestry. com and I realized, wow, I'm tracing all of my great uncles and all of my great aunts and great grandparents, names I never knew before. I started this journey of self-discovery. Let's give a truth about Easter.
Dr. Shon:Easter originated from Austria, a pagan fertility goddess. The colonizers blended the indigenous traditions with their own to convert and troll carpeton melanated indigenous indian, the ameri indian, not the native americans. We are not talking about native americans, we are talking about the true american indians. The Niiji Holidays were used to control us, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter. All the holidays are a form of control and it's crazy because I came from a family where the holidays ruled. The holidays were special. The holidays were family time, and it's sad because every day should be family time. We shouldn't need an Easter bunny or a fat, colonized Santa Claus to help us feel closer to family, to give, to feel love.
Dr. Shon:Holidays like Easter were used to disconnect us from our roots and land cycles. Now that's deep, to disconnect a group of people, indigenous, sacred people from their land. It's mind-boggling, it's crazy, but it's true. So the chocolate eggs and the Easter bunny are symbolic fertility marketing, not spirituality. It goes a little deeper than that, but I just wanted to touch on genealogy, identity and how the matrix works. They create these holidays that basically rob us blind. Christmas comes, people spend a lot of money on gifts and making companies rich to meet their quota at the end of the year, when it's not even a positive holiday. When I did the research on Christmas and you can find this on my YouTube channel the things that I found out about Sinterklaas and Black Pete and how people were protesting in the Netherlands about the history and how it was attached to controlling melanated people, it's crazy.
Dr. Shon:When the colonizers came over here. They brought those holidays and forced those holidays and those holidays. If you look at the origins they're pretty new. But the thing that ties this all together is your genealogy. When I trace my genealogy back and continue to find my ancestors here decade after decade doing great things and farmers and land owners, and never found a slave, it just really threw me for a loop and all the information coming out about the knee gene.
Dr. Shon:I know that so many of my family is in the matrix. They celebrate these things and it was difficult. Last year I cried, I was like I can't believe I've been lied to and I didn't even know. I was so sleep, I was so blind to a lot. But every day I wake up and I learned how to stand in my truth period, unapologologetically. I don't even get bogged down by the propaganda, by the money. I just continue to be needy. Feathers up, crowns on chief, this status, baby, proud of who I am, melanin, glowing in the sun. No longer do I feel down or less than or like I don't belong. I know who my ancestors are. I'm actually their wildest dreams, like a butterfly, like you see that butterfly spreading my wings, ready to fly Just like a butterfly Fly, like a butterfly sting, like a bee baby. That's what's in my DNA. Once I learned the truth, it made me that much more stronger and confident and proud to be who I am and not feeling like I'm from this continent I don't even know not one person there.
Dr. Shon:To do your genealogy is empowering guys. It is so empowering and I encourage all of my Niiji, if you are melanated and you are here on Turtle Island, aka America, aka America, to do your genealogy. To discover that my ancestors were Muscogee and Chahta, seminole, Abalachi Creek, all down there, the Mississippians is mind-boggling. It's truly mind-boggling. The mound builders and I'm from Tallahassee and just to hear the tragic stories about how the colonizers burnt villages and kidnapped people and just did so many things that are horrendous that you couldn't believe. When I read all these things and see how they use people and just did so many things that are horrendous that you couldn't believe. When I read all these things and see how they use Christianity and the cross, all these religions, to control us, it's mind-boggling.
Dr. Shon:So many people are asleep, so many people attached to my bloodline are asleep. They don't even know that they're indian, they don't even know that they're native to turtle island, which is why I have to be bold, stand alone sometimes, be strong, really strong, and get the word out. Each one. Teach one and hopefully I have more people understanding the matrix and understanding that it's a money pit. It has nothing to do with spirituality. You gotta do your research, though Don't take my word for it. Just do a little. Challenge you guys to do just a tiny bit. Don't take my word for it. Just do a little. Challenge you guys to do just a tiny bit of research.
Dr. Shon:This is a genealogy tip. Start by asking your elders questions, then search public records, the US Census and even Freedmen's Bureau archives to find your ancestors. Knowing who you are helps you reclaim your power. It helps you reclaim your confidence, it helps reclaim your royalty and you will feel so much better. You will feel so elite and proud to be copper tone, melanated, indigenous, making your ancestors so proud about the magic that exists in your mind, body and soul.
Dr. Shon:And your spirit. Your spirit is creative. Your spirit is a leader. Your spirit is entrepreneur. Your spirit is agriculturalist. Your spirit is connected to the sun. This melanin is connected to the sun. It's so connected that it's still a mystery today. It's still a mystery to scientists. They can't crack it, they can't denature it. They've been trying. They don't understand how it works, they can't copy it, so it's a secret, sacred piece of us, my Niiji. Okay, so this is a generational curse, reminder. You don't have to celebrate what colonized your people. Celebrate your life, your healing, your own ancestral calendar. You are the legacy. You are the legacy. Own that shit. Stand on it Period. You are the legacy.
Dr. Shon:Our oral hygiene spotlights. Oral cancer awareness month is April, okay, and it's deeper than just brushing your teeth. It's life and death in some cases. I want to give you guys some more facts about oral cancer so that we can keep this in our mind and understand how to spot it and know just in case we have family members, because the earlier you find it, the better.
Dr. Shon:Over 54, 000 Americans are diagnosed each year with oral cancer. That's number one. Number two men are twice as likely to develop it as women. Number three women. Number three it often starts as a sore or a patch in the mouth that won't go away. If you have a sore that isn't self-eliminating, it's not healing on its own, then you want to have it checked out. If it doesn't go away, the earlier you have it checked out, the better.
Dr. Shon:As dentists, we perform oral cancer screenings every time you come into the dental office. It's good to have those six-month checkups and be well in with the provider so that you can keep a spot a light on these things. Number four is a strong link to human papillomavirus, smoking and alcohol. You drink a lot of alcohol or you smoke cigarettes, a lot of nicotine, tobacco, or if you have human papillomavirus, this is going to increase your chances of having oral cancer. If you do get a spot in your mouth, if you're vaping any of that stuff, go get it checked out, don't wait.
Dr. Shon:The final thing early detection is key. If you define something early and the dentist or the oral surgeon is able to biopsy it, determine that it's oral cancer and get rid of it, cut it out before it spreads, you have an 80 to 90% survival rate. In the news recently with oral cancer, researchers are developing a saliva-based test that can detect oral cancer early. It's non-invasive and it's fast. So the future of dental health is precision-based. So hopefully they come out with this so that way if you have concerns about oral cancer say you were a smoker, you get a lesion you don't know we can do a test to see if you have oral cancer. That's something that they're working on, that they don't have yet, and here's the pro tip if you feel pain, burning or swelling that lingers, go see your dentist.
Dr. Shon:I just want to wrap it up and remind you guys about the cdp , not the cdp challenge, the consistency challenge. This is day 11 and I'm so proud of myself for growing and showing up and growing and showing up and growing, showing up, growing and showing up. So, with the cdp formula, it's consistency, discipline minus the lack of procrastination, and that's what we on right now. If you do consistency plus discipline minus procrastination, it will be a glow up. We're going to glow up right. We're going to break generational curses regardless. We're going to go from hood to hood, regardless of all the difficult things that we may face.
Dr. Shon:I just want to give you guys 10 ways to break generational curses. Number one become a content creator and monetize your voice. Number two learn a new skill like editing, graphic designing, copywriting, making music, recording music, making beats, doing nails, doing hair, doing lashes any skill. Number three start a YouTube or a TikTok channel and monetize those. You can become a partner through the Google AdSense or a TikTok partner and make money every month, versus going on a job and feeling like I don't really want to do this. I don't really want to be here Feeling controlled and not like your own boss and having no autonomy. You can write an e-book or sell digital products. We talked about this earlier. E-books selling digital products will help you break generational curses. Launch your own website or blog. That's number five.
Dr. Shon:Number six start a podcast. Speak your truth. So this is my podcast, the Hood to Hooded podcast, and we speak nothing but the truth on here. It's a hard truth. Everybody might not know. Podcast, and we speak nothing but the truth on here. It's a hard truth. Everybody might not know. But if we spread it, nothing but the truth, even if it hurts, because knowledge is power, not pseudo knowledge. But true knowledge is the power, my Niiji. True knowledge is the power, not that fake that is teaching in high school to make kids feel like they were slaves and less than like nothing, where they don't even know their great-grandparents or their great-great-grandparents, and it's right here in our face. But we speak nothing but knowledge. Start you a podcast and talk your.
Dr. Shon:Number seven sell custom merch, such as teas, mugs or affirmations, just to. If you get a brand, make some t-shirts, make some pencils, do some and sell you some merch so that you can monetize and escape the paycheck to paycheck and poverty. Number eight shadow a career you're curious about. Number nine invest in real estate, crypto or micro businesses. And number 10 go to school and take a class that empowers you.
Dr. Shon:My route, as you can see, from hood to hood it graduation, baby graduation. That's the hard route. There's so many routes that you could take, depending on your personality and who you are and the things that you love. All right, do something. That way, you don't ever have to feel like you're working a day in your life. That's what you want to do. Well, you don't have to work a day in your life.
Dr. Shon:Some final closing words is even if you're broke today, you can still be rich in resilience. I'm not here to impress you. I am here to impact you. And if I become a doctor after being homeless, grieving my mother, not really being raised with my father, who was battling different type of substance abuse and incarceration and all types of things then and I felt lost as well, then you can do anything. Don't wait. The world needs you now. Accomplish that goal, starting now. Take action now.
Dr. Shon:We're reading the Eat that Frog book and one of the main things that we have been learning so far is taking action, writing your goals down. Remember, only 3% of adults have written clear goals Only 3%. Even as a streamer, you have to have written clear goals about what you want to accomplish. You can't just show up and just lollygag and waste time. We can't do that. You can do anything you want to do, but you can't waste time. If you want to do it, make sure you are following the Hood to the Podcast on all platforms. Make sure you are subscribed to Dr Shon Live YouTube channel for the replays, and all those links are in my about and in my bio. And also I want to remind you guys to help me reach 100 followers on Twitch and one subscriber on Twitch, and thank you guys for tipping, donating, commenting and being here during my growth era. I really appreciate it.
Dr. Shon:I'm getting over my fear of going live, even though I like going live. There's still some type of anxiety, but preparation is key. Remember the six Ps Proper preparation prevents poor performance. And I added a seventh one in there proper preparation prevents piss poor performance. We don't want to fail to prepare. We want to show up prepared shoulders, high head, high crown on, feathers on because we lit like that. We can do anything. We can come from anywhere. We can go from hood to hood if I can make it from Tallahassee, Florida, to new york city, survive being homeless, go through dental school and survive being broken, lost in a terrible relationship, and you can do anything that you want to do with no doubt, unapologetically. Stop sleeping on yourself today, my Niiji. Stop doubting yourself. Stand on business about yourself and always level up in every way possible. You want to level up.
