How did your bad business practices force you into homelessness? I’m not one of those people that spend too much time on the ‘woe is me,’ because that insinuates that someone else did it to you. I’m real good at self-assessing and identifying where I f***ed up. So when I was homeless, at first I was mad because it was a client who f***ed me. That’s the physical reason why I got homeless, that’s the reason why it happened. But what action did I take to cause my money to be gone that forced me into being homeless? I trusted a client, I fronted him the money, he f***ed me. Boom! But the real reason was my business practices were off. You’ll eventually become unsuccessful if you have unsuccessful business practices. You might get lucky every now and then and it’ll hit, but eventually you’ll be unsuccessful. I was playing Russian roulette with my business, and eventually it caught up to me. The first two months, I was not a happy person. I reached out to a bunch of friends to see if I could sleep on the couch, and nobody would let me stay on their couch. And it’s like, we was justkickin’ it! I hollered at friends that I knew had money just to see if they’ll let me borrow a little bit to stretch out for a couple weeks. No one would f**k with me. The client still hadn’t paid me, and he owed me like $15,000. I’m waiting on this dude to give me a check for $15,000, I put all my money in his order and I delivered it to him. And I’m still waiting on buddy to give me this $15,000 This is for you [I told myself]. You have to go through this. This is necessary for your growth. The only person that can get you out of this is you; and you need to know that. You’re never going to get that money from your client; you’re never going to get any money from your friends;you’re never going to get none of them to give you a couch to sleep on. That’s not how it’s supposed to go down. You got to get through this the hard way so you can climb out of it yourself, and know that you are a god. So, I just took the $20 I had and kept flipping it until I was able to hire people. Before I realized it, I had built a luxury brand while I was homeless with $20 in my pocket. (he ordered 6 suites). But I spent two months, chasing a ghost. I realized that’s what I was doing; I was chasing something that’s dead. It’s like why am I trying to resuscitate something that’s dead. I had to realize nobody could get me out of the situation. I saw this happening though, just like Will Smith’s character. He didn’t like it, but he had to go through it until he could craft a better reality. I was f***ed up. I mean I wasn’t on drugs or nothing; I was just broke! But while I was broke, I would just fantasize about all the money I was going to get, the Maserati I was going to get, the house I was going to buy, the clients I would work with. I could see it so vivid that I could feel it. You have to be exact with
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