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morning good evening good night good afternoon don't give me copyright flag though no no no you
can cut this out i sounded like a zombie just yeah in order to grow you gotta have like some
kind of goals what's up what's up what's up good morning good evening good night good afternoon
wherever you're listening in thank you shout out to my google listenership apple podcast spotify
youtube thanks for watching in we had a very special guest i know i say that every week but uh
this is this is going to be a fun one in terms of entertainment i have the amazing willie woe
of the willie woe show film producer comedian entrepreneur you know yeah yeah all over
encourager the the mindset pick your head up self-growth you know so we're gonna have a great
conversation to build willie's part of the gentlemen that come by shout out to the barbershop
chronicles uh those guys that uh we get together and kind of talk about building and just have the
conversation you know outside of social media see what's really going on so um i'd be interested to
hear about some different stuff you have going on right now the willie woe show is the biggest thing
promotion and you were we were on the phone about a month month and a half ago and we were talking
about everything that you had coming up we said this will line up perfectly in january and then
right before you hit the ground running you came off a vacation i was looking like a day or two
after we got off the phone and i'm like man this guy's all over the place so go ahead introduce
yourself and tell me about your travels we'll start there definitely man thank you very much
for having me on the show i i definitely um i'm a fan i watch and i love what you do um i love the
quality and i love the content um and i love the guys that that you introduced me that i met you
through um the barber pill lawrence evan all those guys are great guys man yeah yeah i love i actually
spoke to uh to lawrence earlier telling him like i miss him because i've been so busy um i had to
on vacation though that that's something i've learned um which i try to instill and and speak
to other up-and-coming artists about is knowing yourself knowing your character defects knowing
your uh defaults and knowing when it's time to rest and you have to detach i mean i'm sure you
can you can understand when you have a show like this constantly promoting constantly marketing
constantly doing interviews constantly networking you have to detach and i have a family so i also
have to make time for them as well um like i was sharing with you earlier though the funny part is
that's the part for for me and most people i know that's the part we enjoy you know um the running
and all the work that behind the scenes yeah it gives you a reason to do it yeah the family and
the time you know like like we both said we have something going on right after this yeah yeah
we're doing this to promote the bigger picture so it can all feed back into there yeah yeah going
back to what you said about self the the reset you have to detach and reset and what i did was
i took a few weeks with the family um but the workaholic in me also kind of incubated some
some some work in there because also i'm working on a documentary um so we went to florida where
i'm originally from had spoke with some family members did some interviews and and just kind of
laid on the beach and relaxed and and thought out what the plan was for 2025 you know because
sometimes when you when you're in this business you get a run um and when i say the business i
mean the entertainment business you get a run and in the beginning it's uphill but once it catches
it starts to take a momentum of its own and you know what i mean and then and then you find
yourself finding it difficult to keep up so what i try to do is pace myself and accelerate properly
when needed but also maintain a level a level amount of speed and focus so if that means going
on the beach or getting away even my family knows i'll take a quick three-day getaway just to be
alone so i can clear my thoughts and see things properly you know what i mean i need to see the
entire feel because if not i've been in the entertainment business in entertainment business
for over 20 years so i've made i've made my share of mistakes you know and a lot of it came from
rushing and not taking the time to to prepare and think think things out fully you know what i mean
yeah um and this year is going to be incredible so i'm i'm kind of pacing things on a monthly
basis i have a new a new strategy a different way of outlining projects and and uh working more with
other people you know i have a new company with alfonso todd the foundation where we help
mentor other artists that are interested in acting and um music um voiceovers anything
entertainment related it's like a consulting firm you know because i've always wanted that
coming into the industry starting in music production and going to college for it and
and we spoke about that my transition into um working with in the major studios with platinum
selling artists and then um transitioning into acting which led to stage which led to commercials
so you know there's so many opportunities that that are out there but we lack mentorship you
know for sure especially in the entertainment business yeah you know we just had uh just had
valerie bittner yes i saw did you see that episode yes i loved it man and i love the way you outlined
every segment you know what i mean like i really was impressed by that that was a new goal i started
doing for for putting things together but the showing people that it's not like she said on
the show two percent of people are your you know leonardo dicaprio julia roberts like there's a lot
of entertainment think about how many tv shows are on yeah hulu and stuff there's there's a lot
of actors there's a lot of work out there but you may not be to the point where everybody remembers
you from a specific role or something definitely definitely one thing i do is i go into a role
not looking to be famous not looking to be recognized i go into the role wanting to
please myself i want to be the best at that role and it sounds crazy and it took me a long time to
get to that point but it what it does for me is it takes away a lot of the pressure
you know what i mean what i've learned because like you just said with all the the tubies and
the hulus and all these streaming services that are offering crack all these different um i hope
we get a check for that but uh offering all these opportunities it's it's like it's getting
saturated so um another thing that i i reinforce to those coming into the industry is two things
one be true because when it's so overly saturated like that the only thing that can really make you
stand out that no one else has is the ability to be you you know and and what i do is like you
learn to take your craft seriously so when i'm watching a tv show for instance with with a friend
or my family or my lady um they're watching the show and the plot and all that stuff and they're
entertained i'm watching the actors i'm watching the little quirks that they added into that
character i'm studying you know what i mean oh yeah oh no i know exactly what you mean i'm watching
the editing yeah it's bad i'll say they're gonna throw like a lamp or something red on the left
yeah how do you know that because there's something cold and blue on the right that's
right that's right that's the way they're going to move this set and then she'll be like i can't
watch this with you yeah it almost takes the fun out of it it does it does but you have to stay up
it's interesting because and let me see what you think about this but we have this whole creative
thing that fuels i think a lot about like as a creator there's really nothing original i just
take inspiration from other things but there's this overarching trend of i don't want to say
where the money's at just where people's interest is at at the time so you have to watch the new
stuff that's coming out and i can't be just in my basement creating the the industry will move along
so it's the same with tv if you're not seeing okay what are the stories that they're picking
out what are they you know like there's only so many original stories just with different
characters and actors yeah so you're inspired by that acting yeah that part yeah i love acting
i love theater i love stage more than anything man um i i've been through some things in life
um unfortunately but fortunately because it taught me a lot it gave me the heart and the morals that
have so i i carry that into you know my world today with with helping others um but to that
point i totally agree and what i've learned too because at one point i was like that i didn't want
i was stuck in my ways i didn't want to see or transition into all of the new wave whatever it
is um namely ai um and then one day something clicked and i said you know what this is what
the generation before me said about cell phones or about you know microwaves or whatever um
at a certain point you don't have a choice you can either move with it or get out of the way
so um i still favor the classics i love watching a lot of the older actors and older shows because
when you go back to looking at like fred astaire and dean martin these guys would do dance routines
in one take there was no camera switching where they're doing multiple takes or angles i don't
even think of that bro it's serious it's serious like and i mean they were flawless like for three
minutes straight you know what i mean um but also too like you said you can't reinvent the wheel all
you can do is add your authenticity to it and that's what i decided to do with the willie woe
show you know and i have no qualms about telling people like a lot of it i took some ideas from
shows i enjoyed like the dave chappelle show in living color that's the vibe that it gave me yeah
that dude vibe and it gave me like i can attach to these characters yeah i um that was my initial
impression and then with the like laugh track and everything with the production yeah yeah it added
a lot to it because sometimes you watch a flat like people go straight to social and they do
skits even if they do multiple camera angles they don't have the soundtrack behind it right right
And then the scene, not to give anything away, but when you're driving and you're dancing and the person pulls up to the side of you, I'm sitting here thinking, that's not green screen.
He's really bugging out in real life.
So I was like, that's interesting to see the content put that together.
but you know i was surprised at the production level while still keeping that um the rawness
it speaks to today's time people don't want to see the overproduced you know if you if you open
with cinematic title people are like how long is this yeah yeah 47 seconds man you know they want
to see a still image but that's great man that you love the craft and yeah same thing i get to
do with the podcast you know how many podcasts are there yeah there's a lot now but there's a lot
anyone wants to listen based around the you know we could have done negativity even comedy yeah we
could do comedy right right the laughs would even just the reels will go crazy yeah but i want people
to be able to look back a year and a half and we have something to say that could inspire even if
somebody's not going to be in acting that's why i brought the parallel up between podcasting or
video editing and all the different parts of it but what really interests me like you said
finding self finding when to relax kind of knowing what you're capable of and now your
vision isn't fueled by having something to prove right it's more i know what i'm supposed to do
I know that God will fill the path for me to do that.
Ultimately, now I just need to brace for the ride.
And be consistent and be consistent.
And that sometimes is the hardest part, even for me, because you have days when you just don't feel like it.
But what I've learned to do, and I'm so blessed, man, because, you know, my father wasn't around.
And I have this, I won't say the same old story, but similar stories to a lot of people that have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations in their lives early.
So I've taken pieces from my grandmother, you know, really good friends.
I learned what good friends are.
And I had a good friend tell me one time, he said, be careful of what you allow in your eyes and in your ears.
So now what I do is when I'm scrolling through social media, first, I limit myself to social media because I don't want to be too overly influenced by what's already going on.
I want to stay authentic to myself and I want to stay as creative as I can and as raw as possible, because the best I can give you is me, you know, and hopefully you like it.
If you don't, then I have to accept it. And I still wish you the best.
But what I do now is I've toned down my scrolling follows to positive things and advice, Instagram posts and things that can motivate me.
And it really does affect you. You know what I mean?
And I get up even when I'm not feeling in the mood.
If I scroll and I see somebody else just reminding me that you're going to have days like this, get up and do it.
These are the times that you'll remember.
And as time progressed, I learned these are the times that I remember.
I remember when I didn't want to get up.
I remember even right now, the Willie Will Show is officially premiering February 1st.
And I was delaying it because there comes a point where you can be overly subjective or overly critical to your own work.
Oh, yeah.
And then it'll never come out.
So, you know, someone told me, a friend of mine, he's a film producer, and he said, you know, you should do this, this, and this.
Start here and do this.
And I took the advice to a certain degree, but I also said, you know what, if I keep waiting and trying to make it perfect, tomorrow's not promised.
It may never happen.
So I'm going to give you all of me and my imperfections.
So a lot of the skits are either situations that I've been in or have been told about or have seen firsthand.
So it's reality, you know, and hopefully people enjoy it, man.
I feel if nothing else in this world, bro, I really want people to just relax and laugh
sometimes because this life can get hard, but we're here to inspire each other.
Somebody's got to inspire, just like you do.
When I heard your show and then when I spoke to other people who spoke about you, it was
inspiring.
I reached out to you.
I haven't reached out to any other podcast and believe me, I have a lot of things that
I've turned down a couple, bro.
And I was like, no, I want to do this.
And then when we spoke on the phone, oh, yeah, I can't wait to do even more business with you, man.
And that's God's honest truth.
You can turn the mic off and I'll say it again.
That's good, man.
I definitely want to inspire you, man.
No, no, thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I put something out recently about how the people, just even what you just said, helped me realize, okay, there's a point.
even with the the podcast let alone there's real stuff that goes on in life when you don't want to
upload a podcast like sometimes your brain just shuts down and i'm like here i am posting about
complaining about waiting an hour and a half it's like you know all the the cameras it takes time
to put it together yeah and i wanted to there was something i thought i didn't want to interrupt you
but that's one thing that has changed with the industry uh at least the viewer back when you
know will smith was on top of the world he dropped every july 4th he waited a whole year for content
for two hours of content to come out and like clockwork it did yeah but there is no more like
game of thrones every sunday everybody's watching the same thing because it's a massive production
yeah if people don't have stuff in between yeah like even two weeks me dropping my show
is a long time without that a lot of the reels and stuff in between yeah like i don't even remember
what happened two weeks ago yeah yeah it's it's it's the world of i don't want to say instagram
but insta everything you know what i mean everybody wants insta no patience no um and and and for me i
i didn't like it when i realized it but like you said earlier it's a reality it is what it is we
gotta roll with it and it keeps you on your toes you know um i'm also working on a show
called raising daddies because i have kids and when i saw this transit well what made me realize
this transition that was really happening before my eyes was i started having to go to my kids
to you know my my 15 year old or my 17 year old to tell me how to upload something or how to put
this into a file and i'm like i know this stuff like i didn't have these problems before so what
i realized was instead of me raising them kind of because of this technological insta age they're
starting to have to raise me to a certain degree you know what i mean so um that's something i'm
pitching during the pilot season pilot season in la is january i think like april so all the
producers are looking for new content and stuff like that so if you're out there and you have
some pilots and then this is a jewel which i shouldn't be sharing but we're here so we're
going to share pilot season in la is happening right now so if you got something you want to
pitch reach out to some agents i'll be out in la in march going out to do some work out there so
i'm excited about that getting out there again yeah that's excellent man yeah it's always a
hustle it's always a something and that's that's the thing there was a great quote not to keep
plugging valerie's episode but she said you have to love it like you said it you love acting yeah
When the when the bag is not there, when it's not pilot season, when you're on the low end or even just something happens in life, you could be at that.
People don't realize you could be at that highest point of everything going right.
And then on the inside, be like, I'm really worried about this or this is going on or something real happens.
yeah and people are like well you know you should be happy it's this it's like you know
anything it's it gets rough man um i've had some tragedies in my life at some of the highest points
of my life um i've had opportunities that i've walked away from which i'm glad i did now that i
can look back and see why i did it even though i didn't understand then um and i get that question
a lot when people know me from movies i've done you know way back to working with tupac you know
as far back as like like i said 20 years ago or working in the studio with the fujis and things
of that nature they're like well why aren't you why didn't you keep going why did you take a break
why'd you why'd you back up and i did not like what i was seeing not not specifically with them
but the industry at that time and i just didn't it wasn't for me at that time i needed i needed
some clarity i needed to get off this train and let me let me grow a little you know um one of
the things i did learn was i didn't truly in my opinion become really good or consider myself a
professional actor until i stopped chasing the bag so i don't mind i love theater one of the
reasons i love doing stage is because when i'm on stage i feel free you know um television is
different because you know they stop cut you know you got the director yelling at you if he's had
a bad day i don't know his dog bit him or something but it when it's on stage man you got your lines
you got the audience it's one-on-one it's it's authentic it's genuine and there is no stop there
is no let me do that over so i just feel that i i feel me you know it's just it's an incredible
it's it's an incredible feeling you know yeah if it feels like home yeah yeah so it became it wasn't
about the bag and then i realized i had gotten better you know i had gotten better at the craft
And then I started taking the craft more seriously and I wanted to get more into it.
I wanted to learn more.
You know, I still take classes.
I still study and I have years of experience.
You know what I mean?
So I really, I definitely agree with that.
I definitely agree with that.
It's not about the bag.
It's about doing something you love and waking up every morning, not even waking up, going to sleep thinking about it.
Not because you want to, but because it's just always on your mind.
It's like singing in the shower.
If you get in the shower every day and you sing and you enjoy getting in the shower and singing, then you probably should be a singer.
because you love doing it you know what i'm saying like i'm gonna say quit your job at the hospital
but no you'll find that i saw i saw a post or something which i don't know how if i agree with
it a hundred percent but it said you know you'll you'll find a way i don't think that happens for
everyone yeah but i don't think you should not try right because there's too many of this or
that you know it's it's saturated and stuff i still think kids should be working with cap cut
and all this stuff because go back 20 years even if you had talent you weren't guaranteed to be
in movies or things like that you you named tupac you know not everybody's that special to
reach those heights or that i think it was like a dozen movies i mean he had you like you said he
had a run he was still on his run yeah yeah yeah no s&p so you never know what you you have to
embrace and you have to be grateful when those runs happen you have you can't just think okay
i made it i can relax now you know very good point at least not for me yeah there's always um
i think for me the first time i was teaching a class and working and running a business
and i said i'm going to do something i recorded to myself i said this is the end of the week
i did it i put my mind to it and then it's funny because that's the last time i remember having
like an evening free not not working like once i realized and got that taste like oh man i can
actually accomplish a lot with goals and with consistency and we're just doing a little bit
and progress over perfection you know yeah um you keep adding to the system and you'll find a way
if you love it hopefully things work out i like to think that if it's a if it's a just purpose
like you know not all my listeners are spiritual they know you know i say god gives me a purpose
to whether it's through the business whether it's through these interviews you know i'm giving people
like shout out to fredo when we put his brand together that's his livelihood drain surgeons is
what he does and to have two trucks with artwork that i did kind of validated at least in his mind
he'll tell you too he was like man once i saw like once i put that on the truck i was doing it
that's inspiration. That's, it's just another form of it, you know?
Yeah. Yeah. I know for me, man, one of the things, um, not,
not to get too deep in spirituality, but I, I,
I pride myself on being as honest and trans, um, transparent as possible.
Um, when people ask me, why didn't you keep going? I always reply,
the devil bought me a drink. And, and in that analogy,
it was me getting to a point where I I saw to to grow in the industry at that time I had to
make a decision a moral decision do I want to be a part of this or do I want to take the other road
and it's funny because that road or that decision pops up a lot throughout life that's just life
I've learned um but one of the things I I look back on is sometimes I say man I wish I had done
this because i would i'd be sitting in malibu right now on the top of them well not now
praises um prayers to everybody that's going through the fires out there but i'd be at the
top of the mountain right now um and then i'm one of the type of people i always look at the glass
half full so in retrospect i say ma'am but you know what look at the journey i've had i've sat
with multi multi multi millionaires you know in in private conversations in in private places and
just had a nice time i've i've been to the lowest you know with with substance and alcohol and and
been homeless um i've i've had a journey that i can look back on that many people would
would would give their right hand for so i've learned to love the journey because at the end
of the day that's all you have the money the bag that you get it's going it's going to dissipate
at some point you're going that bag gets lighter you know and other things come with that bag
some people don't want that problem you know to have 650 million dollars in your account
and now your cousin's looking for you because he wants to borrow 640 of it you know what i mean so
the journey is where the for me where the joy is you know i can look back and say yeah i've
had conversations with tupac i've sat with wesley snipes and patrick swayze i've i've driven
around having it you know personal conversations with lauren hill i still know this one they still
call me over here and and that's because of my faith in god which is strengthened and the
relationships that i've built and the respect that they still have for me because of the just
the decisions i made then you know what i mean like it's a rough game but it's also just it's
it's an analogy so to speak of life because either way you're gonna have those decisions you know
what i mean this is just us dealing with it in entertainment and it is a little rougher so that's
why we wanted to start the foundation to try to at least give an opportunity to to people to get
some some uh real advice some real advice if you need it you know what i mean we're not saying
we're perfect and we know everything but with our relationships we only deal we try to only deal
with people with integrity and respect and and that will take accountability for um the things
they do you know that's really big for me man because i didn't have that you know so i said
to god one day i said you know what instead of me crying about what i didn't have why don't i take
this opportunity to give it to other people you know what i mean yeah for sure even like uh just
passing it on to the children or saying that you know there's there's nothing wrong there's nothing
wrong with whether it's entertainment music rapping you know hip-hop has aged with all of us
If you're doing something where, I don't want to say it's not your purpose, but I think anything, not even just alcohol or drugs, but a hobby can be addicting, gaming can be addicting, and it's not doing anything to fuel your purpose or have you go to sleep at night, you know.
um but those down times like knowing that you almost realize like okay not just this too shall
pass but this is part of the journey and i'm gonna feel a joy that reciprocates this feeling
of negativity that's something that helps me get through it like i won't always feel like this and
i'll remember feeling like this when i am at the top so i remember to be grateful there's nothing
worse than being given everything and being like man these mics don't even match like yeah you know
you know what i mean yeah yeah his podcast looks better than mine oh i've been there and done that
yeah i've i tried to take the approach of realizing that it could always be worse
because there are times in my life where it has been and then i know people where
you know i lost a son not to not to bring that but just as a point i lost a son to suicide and
i used to really you know that that was difficult yeah but i also know parents who have lost two
or three in a year so that's when i have to get on my knees man and i'm i'm grateful you know i
pray for them but i'm also grateful for my trials and tribulations you know what i mean like i know
anything can happen. Tomorrow's not promised. So I'm going to live today as, as good as, as,
as best I can. And like I said, try to help somebody, man. And then I love what you said
earlier about setting goals. That's something else that no one showed me that I ended up
realizing was very important. So I have a sheet that lists I think it's like maybe 15 days out
sunday to saturday all the times of the day every in half an hour increments and i jot down what my
plans are now the moment that i don't do that for the week or for the two-week section segment
things get chaotic and then i get overwhelmed and then i go into depression or starting to feel
stressed and then you know people will remind me oh well what's on your schedule and i'm like okay
that's the problem but whenever i got it organized as best as possible because things are gonna
happen um and i know what my goals and my intentions are for this week or for next week
then things run a lot smoother you know you got a birthday coming up no i just had one man i just
had a capricorn then sagittarius sagittarius december 1st yeah yeah okay because you sound
just like me with having everything listed out you're a capricorn yeah my birthday's in two days
oh nice after this airs congratulations man that's what's up that's what's up but i always
remind myself and it's funny because i have a list of you have to have the list not only does
it increase your chance of getting it done but everybody that i the guests that i'm attracting
when we had fredo on here he talked about how when you go to bed you you know you like you know
if you did what you were supposed to do yeah yeah like that fulfilling feeling is what you
should be chasing you know and it's good it it fulfills your night you know if i didn't do what
i was supposed to do today or if i didn't if i deviated from the plan um i don't rest well
and i've like i said i've learned to just be honest with myself when i don't rest well i don't
make great decisions or i allow myself to get overwhelmed and i'm not well yeah so there are
times when i will shut it down i don't care what's going on around me because i'm no benefit to
anybody else if i'm if i can't you know make sure my glass is full you know that just recently came
to me even though i knew for a long time in one of my meditations it would just i gotta feed myself
like i know um shout out to my keisha guider i'm gonna get and she's actually gonna interview me
coming up but she put out a book called uh self-love is the best love yeah and it was her
story about just finding how to love herself outside of things but she put it in a format
and into a book where you can apply it to yourself what you need to do to feed your inner child what
you need to do to you know get out of that downward spiral and i'm not saying everybody
could just will themselves out of depression you know it doesn't work like that right but
most people that go through it go through it more than once and to preach the the mental health to
know how to deal with it is so huge and if i can help you out with that that's a cause
my for my birthday it was asking me what cause i was looking for a local that that deals with
something so if you have something with like mental health or suicide prevention we'll talk
after the show and i'll link my donations for definitely for stuff like that yeah that's that's
really important too man and recognizing it i mean not just the mental health portion but like i go
back to knowing yourself and being honest with yourself because like you said you know things
of that nature any feeling even joy it doesn't it doesn't stick around 24 7 you're going to have
spurts of joy spurts of sadness spurts of confusion what you have to do is just take the
time to recognize it acknowledge it and then try something different to address it and that that
remedy might be temporary but it'll get you through at this time and it may not work the next time so
you look for i love growing and learning man you know what i mean like you said you still take
classes yeah that's what life is about life isn't about for me it's not about just sitting in this
chair doing the same old thing every day on my front porch i'm going to walk around the block
today you know i want to meet somebody new today i'm going to try a different role today when it
comes to acting you know um i'm i'm looking at doing ebooks whatever i don't want to close any
door to not just opportunity but to learning and living you know i love i like to go to different
beaches i love the beach i'm from i'm originally from florida um i grew up in new jersey um lived
in new york for a long time and now i'm in pa but i enjoy traveling and going to see different
beaches it's all the same sand and water maybe some palm trees but it's it's different i want
to see what the vibe is there so i i take that into every aspect of my life you know and um
And taking that time to be honest with yourself and know that I need to eat better.
All these things play a major part, not only in your self-esteem, but in your mental thinking.
Because if you're talking acting, man, you've got to be able to hit these lines.
You've got to be able to remember you're blocking.
You've got to be, you know, and I've been there where I didn't do it.
Yeah, yeah.
And missed some major opportunities because I wasn't prepared.
You know, I took it as a joke.
or too many people told me that i'm a natural so i don't need to study i got this yeah yeah right
until you get in front of a robert de niro or somebody who does have it then you you it's a
little rough you know what it is for me uh in cap cut when you go to do a reel they have a ai now
that can remove filler words wow and everybody thinks they're a great speaker until you start
adding the likes and the ums and we were like why why do you talk so slow on the podcast because
listen when you you don't realize till you're playing it back yeah that oh wow now it doesn't
even sound they once you take all the pauses and the ums and the ahs and play it back and the guy's
skipping in the video and stuff so i'm like man for ai to point it out we used to do uh you ever
here at toastmasters no great for speaking i'm not going to spend too long on it but it's
essentially a group of people that listen to each other speak one person brings a timer every time
you use a filler word another person has uh uh something going so you know how far you are it's
like the light switches from red so kind of like i'm looking at a timer not to give all the secrets
away but we have stuff going on so part of moving the conversation is realizing what time we are
where we could go so that it's all cohesive but that's just something that comes that's loving
the craft like you said the the little nuances of having backlighting on even having a video
in itself we don't need to have that this could reach people just there are people just listening
that have no idea what we even look like yeah they're just enthralled in the story you know
how does that so i'm curious you know i look good so just let them know that so you're gonna stop
listening right now go to about 35 44 on the youtube to pick up now um how do you get up like
you're on the beginning of a run so i mean you said at 2025 you just have to be prepared for it
you're more prepared than previous runs and things that you have and i'm sure we could go on for two
hours about the mindset and stuff that it takes that but how do you climb how do you climb up
how do you get to being right before your i don't want to call it your big break but you you're
you don't want to talk about your your next achievement that takes you to that next level
where you meet the new devil what i do is the first thing i do is i pray that that's major for
me um i pray before i came on this podcast that i say what needs to be said to inspire or encourage
or help somebody or just say don't make a fool of myself you know what i mean yeah um the second
thing i do is i take time in the morning to breathe and um and then i prepare like for me
My year is written out on a month to month basis. I know what needs to come out this month, what needs to come out. It's just a general outline. And then I start filling in inserts in between as to how I'm going to get to this next goal.
So I know that the Willy Wonka show is dropping February 1st.
So over the next two to three weeks, I'm going to go heavy with promotion, street promotion.
I need to reach out to some people for assistance because, you know, a part of growing is also working partnerships.
And there are people that like publicists, my publicists, my agents and everybody needs to be on this on one accord.
The other thing I do is I'm always open to other opportunities.
You know, I strongly believe in God, so whatever presents itself.
But then I take the time to decide whether it's right for me and whether I can fully commit.
I've had to turn things down that I really wanted to do because I know I couldn't do them wholeheartedly.
And then I was at a point where I took every opportunity I could, and I almost drove myself crazy.
You can't do that.
No, you know, because—
I did drive myself crazy a couple times.
I didn't even learn the first time.
I come with paperwork, though, Tony.
I got paperwork to my craziness.
I'm bipolar.
I've had a radio station and a show and all kinds of stuff where I was the bipolar brother.
We should do something on that if you're still into it, man.
Well, we can talk about it.
See, that's an opportunity.
I'm ready to go with you.
For sure.
Yeah, we can definitely talk about it, man.
I know some people that have some opportunities now.
And that's another reason why the foundation helps.
Because I get offered opportunities for many things in entertainment that I can't do.
or i'm not available to do or someone actually i know can do it better and would would have more
respect for the opportunity you know what i'm saying so why not why not share it that was all
that was all this week for me i literally told somebody um she knows who she is i don't know
if she's listening but i said you know i have an idea of what you're asking me to do i have an idea
the time commitment let me get back to you and figure out if i can do that you know that's
something that i can't drop the ball on on you know checking this specific email or whatever it
is so right even um today two things came through i had uh two new orders and one
phone call and i told them all i'm not available till monday it's my birthday weekend i if i'm
letting you know i'm not available so if you need it by sunday you can't have it i'm just not your
guy and um you know it's it's great because you want to help but the path has been so like as long
as you're praying and you're putting yourself in rooms and places that you need to be i still do
stuff um at least close to pro bono where it's more like you know at cost because nothing's free
nothing sustainable like time none of it right right so i pray that okay by me doing this or
putting my name on this or being a part of this does it help grow the overall picture does it
you know does it speak to who it needs to speak to i've said before the negative stuff
is how you go viral right the the somebody tuning in somebody's going to reach out to me
or reach out to you somebody that lost a son you know somebody that's bipolar i've been open about
that on my podcast as well too and i've said you know there's times where i almost feel my job is
to show that you can manage this and you can be a good person because the stigma that we have of
bipolar not to digress too far but people don't even know what it is yeah i've done whole monologues
and i don't promote them but the right people find them they got a couple hundred views on
youtube and i get a couple messages of saying you know what maybe if you're saying therapy
has something to do with it i'll give it a try or you know i feel the same way is that what it is
it's a lot of people don't even know they're bipolar yeah just being aware of it is half the
battle so yeah and it's rough it gets rough um one thing i love you said that um the negative
stuff is what makes you go viral but what what i've learned is the positive stuff gives you
longevity for sure because you have you you get the respect of a lot of people that trust what
you say and and and to further go into the whole bipolar thing what what i did was i took my
i won't say character defects but my bipolarism or whatever however you say it
And I put it into my acting. So I was able to write scripts. I was able to write plays. I was able to recognize the bipolar aspect of business partners just today.
ironically i had a situation over the last two weeks where we we were presented with about six
different events major events and they were rushing us to get certain things done and something didn't
sit right with me but i ran with it to support my team but i kept saying this is something's not
right this isn't right i'm not really feeling this now i only bring that up because we spoke
about goals and schedules and setting things you know so that you can maintain that heart from
rolling down the hill too fast. You want to maintain your speed because of someone else's
desire to push, you know, these, these corporations, they want, they want it now,
they want it now. It kind of caused me to delay, um, other projects that I was working on or am
working on only to get to the point today where it's like, you know what, this isn't going to
work. So, you mean I just wasted two weeks, even though I kept telling my team, this isn't going
to work this isn't going to work but you also have i had to allow them to see this on their own
yeah you know what i mean and i was prepared for it that's why i told them today i said okay just
like you just said i said the next two weeks is the willie woe show i have some things that need
to get finalized you know what i mean like before before it hits the air with the marketing and
other decisions but you have to you have to set your mark sometimes and put your foot down and
say no this is what i need to do and this is what has to be done yeah no matter what presents itself
what opportunity because you could you could drop the whole what is it a bird in the hand beats two
in the bush you can drop the whole bowl of fruit loops you know trying to grab some sugar smacks
or some some oreos you want one cookie but you just drop the whole bowl of fruit loops you know
so yeah i'm learning man and i love it i love learning i just like to share it with other
people so i definitely thank you for giving me an opportunity to be here man and do that
yeah definitely get to talk about the artist foundation mentorship give people kind of an
idea of your mind state and what goes on because when they check out the willie will show that you
guys understand this is acting right you guys yeah please do on the show yeah well they're
gonna see many different versions of me so just know that the whole the characters yeah the
bipolar you haven't seen none yet oh it's gonna get crazy yeah um but it'll be on youtube for a
while maybe for about i think the run is 10 to 13 weeks maybe a season and then we're we plan on
We're actually talking to some people out in L.A., which is why I'm going out there.
So it may it may do some reruns for a while.
But first, you can catch it on YouTube at The Willie Woe Show, W-I-L-L-I-E-W-O Show.
But it's all one word, which which kind of sucks, because when I created the name, which was given to me, Willie Woe, when you when you enter it into the search bar or whatever, all this Willie Wonka stuff come up.
Yeah, yeah. And I was going to I was going to talk to you about that.
I might be able to help you with that.
Yeah. Thank you. Because I wasn't sure. I was like, you know what? I don't know if that's good or bad, but I trust in God. But the foundation came about with a friend of mine, Alfonso Todd. He's an event curator.
Yeah. Shout out to Alfonso. He's been doing events out here for, I remember, 17 years ago. And he might have been doing it five or seven years then.
So, yeah, yeah. He he was one of the first few people that put some of the artists on some events that I when I moved out here from Jersey and we both decided that the industry and some of the things that we've gone through in the last few years dealing with people that weren't respectful or they had some some just a character wasn't wasn't all in for the good of the people or the artists.
um so what we did what we we decided to to work together and create a um a consultation company
so if you're an artist you want to be an actor you want to be a singer a rapper um you want to
work behind the scenes as a director you want to be a writer anything in that aspect of entertainment
we will give you consultation we will open our rolodex of networks and clientele and people
that we've worked with over the years to help guide you we will advise you you know um yeah
that's pretty much it you know we give back to the to the community we have some events coming up
we have an event in lake george new york i believe it is may 2nd 3rd and 4th and if you go to the
artistfoundation.rocks um that's our website and you can see a list of the events you can
rocks rocks r-o-c-k-s okay yeah you can go there and you can see um a little bit about me a little
bit about alfonso um and the services we provide um and i'll tell you you know who played a major
part in that um lawrence the barber phil lawrence yeah i'm friends with a famous rapper um out of
new jersey uh do it all salute to do it all from laws and underground um the whole the whole low
family. And what he does is he's also now the councilman in Newark. But once a month,
he pulls men together from the community and they sit down and men talk to men about issues
they're having. They get advice from other men. And when I joined the group and went on a couple
of occasions, I was blown away. I was really blown away. And I was so inspired and encouraged. I came
back up here and I ran into Lawrence at the gas station. I was like, hey, man, what's going on?
And we caught up and I say, hey, this is what I want to do. And he said, oh, come by the barbershop.
on friday and lo and behold i get there and he's already doing it and from then on i was just
amazed man and and it was really good because we don't see enough of that we don't see enough of
the positive energy of the positive people out here like isaiah like evan you know um that that
don't mind giving you the truth about your thinking whether you're right or you're wrong
And the thing that I love, last plug for the barbershop prodigals, everybody has different opinions.
We've had conversation with cops.
You know, we've had conversation with newsmen.
Yeah.
All in the same room.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, Trump, Kamala, whatever it is.
Girlfriend, wife, whatever it is.
Wives, absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
but yeah there's uh there's a couple big things this'll i have uh well you're fresh off of travel
you're fresh off relaxing ready to go back our listeners could hear about how you do have to rest
and and water your roots for me what i realize is that everything that springs out of me
needs me to be nourished otherwise i can't feed 100 100 and that's my that's literally my new
year's resolution for 2025 is water my roots so we'll kind of end on that big things to come this
i feel like this conversation can go a lot of places it's uh it's a shame we're limited and
camera batteries end out but we could have done this live and it would have been fire man oh yeah
oh yeah that'll come that'll come yeah tomorrow's tomorrow's always a new day man yeah we got it we
got a lot of big things to come i'm looking forward to working with you um and and just
go to the artist foundation.rocks and you can see all the events that's coming up hopefully we can
get tony on a couple of our panels as a guest speaker um and also too you can find me on
instagram and social media the willie woe show or just willie woe sounds good man sounds good
Don't click on the Willy Wonka first.
Yeah, don't click on the Willy Wonka.
See what's going to happen is somebody's going to be listening on audio.
A porno might pop up.
Don't click on the Willy Wonka.
They're going to be listening.
They have no idea what we look like if we're tall, skinny, short, white, black.
I have been called chocolate, but.
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