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What's up everybody. This is the people Shark.

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Here a Damon John with another motivation

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moment for you. Courtesy of that

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Moment with Damon John, a production of

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the Black Effect Podcast Network and

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Fiveheart Radio, we are coming up

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on Good Friday, the day that

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changed my life. Fast forward many years

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after that. It was the day that would define my life.

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Nineteen eighty nine Good Friday, three fifteen

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in the afternoon, I would stand outside

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on a corner of the Coliseum Mole on one

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hundred and sixty fifth Street in Jamaica Queen's

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and I would sell a bunch of hats that I

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made by hand the night before, and one

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hour I sold eight hundred dollars

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work of hats. I was on to

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something. Now. I would think that I would

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never work again. But between that time,

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I worked at Red Lofser and I worked at Red Lofser

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and I started a company called Foobu. Well

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was the name on those hats that I sold a

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from nineteen eighty nine. It took

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me eight nine years

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to get to be the person that was

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the CEO of a large company, and

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that all started on nineteen eighty nine Good Friday.

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However, two thousand and seventeen

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Good Friday, three fifteen

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In an afternoon, I would go into the hospital

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to get a small nondule removed off of

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my thyroid, and the

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one hour surgery became five

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and a half hours of removing a golf

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ball size of stage two cancer.

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And when I came too

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and the doctors tonally that they removed

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the golf ball size of stage two cancer,

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I realized one thing that entrepreneurs,

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entrepreneurs and hardworking

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people also have in common. We

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are so busy working for others and

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serving others well, our customers, our boss,

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that we don't take care of ourselves. And

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I have to urge you that Good Friday

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meant so much to me and so much

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to so many because of the sacrifice

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of maybe the religion that

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you practiced, but also I

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think it's a good day to remember

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that you are supposed to take carry yourself. Now

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you may say, damon, that is not for everybody,

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but take care of yourself within your means.

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And how do you do that? Well, just

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like any business, you don't wait

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until something happens to respond.

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You create a business, you check inventory,

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you do what you can do at

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the time you can do it. With the amount of

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money or time or effort you have in

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hand. So whether you're working at a fast

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food restaurant and you get one annual

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checkup allowed to you to check your blood,

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check your blood. If you can't

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take these expensive cold plunges

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in you have enough money to take a

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cold shower in the morning, do

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what's within your means so you can

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get to the place where you

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are very happy and you don't need

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any of those other things besides your

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health. That's all that you can depend

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