The Wall Street Trapper
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Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Getting kidnapped, putting a person in a trunk and burning them, that's a thing in New Orleans.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Yeah. That's a thing. So many girls that I knew and so many dudes was getting, meeting that fate. And I was like, yo, like, this is how we get out the game, dog. But the thing about us is you can't teach us something if it ain't working for you.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Right? And so... In the beginning, nobody was listening to me. But once they saw it changed my life.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
They was like, okay.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Yeah, because it's hard to tell me that something worked if you still struggling.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Which is why a lot of times it's hard to get a dude from the street to go get a job because everybody that he know with a job in his area, he's still struggling. He watched his mama work two jobs and struggle. He watched his auntie work jobs and struggle. He watched his daddy, if he was around, work a couple jobs and still struggle.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So he watched everybody struggle that worked the job, so that's why he don't believe in the job. That's why he don't believe in it. And so once they saw it started working for me,
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I used the same mentality that we had in the streets. It was give it away for free.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Give it away for free. And if it's good for free, they'll pay for it.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Same with the streets. Like you can't, if you're going to hustle in somebody's neighborhood, if you got a new product you got, you put testers out there. Come off the same brick. You just heal.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Yeah, you see how they react to it. And if it's good, you know you got something.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so I remember... I quit the job and I was sleeping on my auntie's sofa, my Aunt Glo. And one of the things I used to do was I had this thing called the Kilo Pack. So this is 2020. I would let people call me on a phone call for $97. And you could book a Zoom call with me for one hour.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
You would get that. And I wasn't tech savvy. So a friend of mine named Danielle, she was real tech savvy. She helped me write my first e-book. So she would listen to me and say, what did you want to put in? I'll write the e-book, write it, write it, write it. And then she said, you got to build an email list. I said, OK, let's give them the e-book then. Yeah.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
don't even know why i need an email list but i'm listening to her you gotta build an email list i was like all right cool well let's just give them the ebook then yeah and so the key little pack was being able to talk to me on a zoom call and get the ebook and when i quit the job i was doing like nine or ten of those a day oh wow but my brain used to just hurt oh my gosh i can imagine it would hurt yeah but i was
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Being an entrepreneur, so I didn't care. Yeah, I'm getting this money. I'm getting this money, like 10 of them a day shoot. That's more than I'm making. And so I met a friend of mine, his name's Paki from other states, and he told me something. He said, I want you to take everything that you see on those calls, because I still will record the Zooms. And he said, put it in the package.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And instead of doing the phone calls, give them that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And then what you can do is, if you go and do the phone call, you can do the phone call and the course for $1,000. And so I was like, and I'm not doing the phone calls no more. That would hurt my brain. So I came up with this other product called Meet the Plug. Everything was surrounded around street talk.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so Meet the Plug was where I for $3,000, I would fly to you. I would book a hotel room and we would lock in for a whole day. And so I would let them see my account though. And that was the transparency. It wasn't that I was just teaching. I was doing exactly what I said I was doing.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I think that's where a lot of people fall short at today is you're not doing exactly what you're telling people to do. You're teaching, but not executing. And so that has always been my motto is to give away as much as I can, teach as much as I can for free. And as a byproduct of that, you'll buy whatever product and service I have. And then the product and service, I had to realize that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
the people who are gonna buy this are probably gonna be at the lowest level. And so what I would do is I would create something and I felt like it was, and I don't wanna say like dumb it down, but I was like, it's still too jargon-ish.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I'm staring down a 10 year bid. And I wound up having this fight with this guy, my two guys. So it was me and two guys. And then the CO came and, you know, we go to the hole, we go to solitary confinement. They put me in a cell with this white dude. And I'm so frustrated because I thought they was my homies. But I realized quick that in prison, like that don't work like that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so everything that I taught, I will always challenge myself to break it down because I didn't want the language barrier To continuously be the reason why we're not doing the thing.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I don't get it. What is it is? And so all of my teaching is energetic. It's laughter. In one of my videos, I actually teach with a Louis Vuitton bag. You got this Louis bag. You understand our culture. And so we started doing that. And then when we created the show, I told my guy Jose, I said, we're going to show the account every week.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Because I realized on Wall Street, nobody was showing their account. I realized that none of the people in my space were showing their account. And I said, Jose, we gonna show the account, dog. Win or lose or draw. We gonna show the account in the options market. We gonna show the account in the buy and hold market.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so they watched me grow the account from 400,000 in 2022 to 4.5 million in 2020 to this year.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
um they watched me do it wins and losses they saw me make a million dollars in one play they saw me lose 500 000 in a day but none of that mattered to me yeah because it was the authenticity and we did it at a high level because what i said to people was there are people making five thousand dollars three thousand dollars two thousand dollars i said jose we're gonna let him see somebody make a million so i want to increase their capacity yeah
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And you don't have to start with what I had, but if you see me make $500,000, if you see me make $200,000, if you see me make a million, what that tells you is somebody that look like you is doing it, it's possible for you too.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so that was just, that's the authenticity around the brand.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Even to now, what we just did was we took a property, we took a million dollars out of the stock market.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
went bought a building with the profits the building is 5.5 million we took a million out the market for the down payment we bought the building with the stock market profits and now the building will now offset my taxes for 2024. that's the ultimate way to play the game it is yes but if nobody ever shows us that yeah
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
we won't know then we'll put a cap on what the possibilities are yeah wow yeah and when it comes to money there is no cap it's not we got men and women we're hundreds of billions of dollars yeah and for me the stock market is the equalizer that makes the game attainable for us yes my daughter eight years old right now she got seven figures in the market wow I've been investing for us since she was one
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So I bought her freedom early.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
If you have a kid, you need to go to... Charles Schwab or E-Trade, I recommend those two are Fidelity, and open up what's called a custodial account. And what that is, because what we'll do is, we'll say, well, I opened up my child a bank account, and we think we have done the most phenomenal thing for them. Right? Well, what happens is, if you open up a bank account,
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
that money ain't gonna do nothing for them yep but if you open up a custodial account you allow any money to work for them yeah and you become the person who controls it and so i tell everybody the first way to create that generation because i am not generational wealth right my daughter is yes oh Right. Like I'm the one who is going to establish what freedom looks like. But I'm not generational.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Yeah, it don't work like that. And the guy looked at me with like pure frustration.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
She is. And how it gets even further is now I have to install tools, information in her that makes it generational. Yes. And so you open that custodial account. But if you don't know how to start, I'm not the person to say, like, buy what you use because that'll make you lose money.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Put it in there. Don't buy what you lose.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
That's what people tell you. The first thing I would say is if you just getting started, just buy the entire stock market just to start off. Like a mutual fund. No, don't mutual funds. No mutual funds. No mutual funds. Stay away from mutual funds. And here's why.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
the fees you're going to pay with mutual funds most mutual funds underperform the stock market which means they don't give you the same return as the stock market does but yet the people are still you are still paying the fees for underperformance right yeah you're still paying the fees for underperformance yeah so if you're going to do that why not just buy the entire s p 500 which is vo or spy that's just keeping it not complicated yeah let's just start there okay
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And he was like, man, y'all playing the wrong game. Now, mind you, we in prison. So, like, you in here with me, so you must be playing the same game I'm playing. Yeah, what game you talking about? What you talking about? So he was like, no. He was like, how much time you got? I had just got my 10 years. He was like, what you doing 10 years from like a 10 murder on a robbery?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And then let's say, however much you get paid, let's make this automated. So every week or every time you get paid, let's just start with 10%. Or whatever you're getting paid, this is my freedom account. This is my freedom fund.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Right? Now it has meaning to it. Right. So you say, okay, every time I get paid, I'm putting 10% when I get paid into this S&P 500. So now I'm not paying a broker. I'm not paying a fund manager. I'm not paying a financial advisor. I'm paying myself. Yeah. That's a good tip. I'm paying myself. I love that. We start there. We don't got to go far.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
What happens is you'll see somebody like me and be like, I won't get what I'm trapped at. This has been a journey, family. Right, I didn't just start here. You're watching me as a polished product. But through the losses, and I always say there's information in the losses. There's so much information I learned in the losses. to make me better and I was all in on it.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I knew that this would change my life. I knew that this would change my family. For the last three Christmases, I've rented a mansion in Orlando and took my whole family there. They there for five to seven days and I take one day to teach them financial literacy. Every time I make the post it go viral.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
It's about eight or nine of them in there. Because you got to realize, we all come from the slums. Yeah. So we in a house that got 17 rooms. They ain't never seen that. No.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
They in a room where they got their own bed.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Most of them coming from beds where we in the bed, you on this side, I'm on this side. They got their own bathroom. They got their own shower. Yeah. They ain't never seen nothing like this. Exposure is so important. They got a big old pool the size of six flags in the backyard. So what happens is that environment made it easy for them to learn.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Because when they're looking at it, they're like, how you got this? I'm glad you asked that. Let's talk about some money. Let's talk about it, yeah. So it was the exposure. And I'm not saying everybody can't start there, but that was easier than saying, let's get on a Zoom call. Well, what happens is if...
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
if you're in that beginning stage let's start with the zoom call yeah let's start when we get with each other around christmas and and and new year's and and thanksgiving yeah i tell everybody in my community that's the perfect time to have that conversation but everybody ain't gonna listen but you know you got that one cousin that you jam with yes it's like no y'all we need to let's pay attention yeah and so um
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
That's the way you start into it. You start with that, and then you can say, okay, let's look at the products that are, here's the easy way. If you go look at the top 10 richest people in the world, They all are rich, wealthy, because they have ownership of stock in the companies that they own. So think about Elon Musk, right? So he has Tesla, but Tesla alone didn't make him a billionaire.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
It's because he owns so many shares of Tesla. so if you want to know where to start at go look at the top 10 richest people in the world and find out what the companies that they own and then buy stock in their companies okay um That's something they ain't never heard before. That's something they ain't never heard before.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
He was like, how much money you got from it? And I was like, it wasn't about the money. He was doing 18 months for embezzlement, $2.8 million. He paid 800,000 restitution. He was able to keep $2 million. And he said, if I go home, I can do this again. and it will only give me five years next time, you'll still be doing the 10 years. And I said, so she'll know how to play that game.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
You feel me? Wow. So if you go look at the top 10 richest people in the world, you're going to see Jeff Bezos, that's Amazon. You're going to see Elon Musk, that's Tesla. You're going to see Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway. You're going to see Mark Zuckerberg, that's Meta. You're going to see Larry Ellison, that's Oracle. So you can go look at the top 10 richest, Larry Page, that's Google.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
You can go look at the top 10 richest people in the world, they ain't up there for no reason. Yeah. And go say, okay, which one of these have companies on the stock market? Guess what? I want to buy this company, this company.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
We're going to work on a movie. About your life. Okay.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So first, it's growing spiritually.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Because every time I see a new realm that I'm getting into, I know I need more guidance.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So for me, it's growing spiritually first and then taking this building. So we're going to call the building a Freedom Center.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And the goal behind that is to revolutionize the way that people experience financial literacy.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
That's important. And then what we want to do, my goal behind that is to turn that into putting one of those in every hood. So from Atlanta, the next one I want to do is in New Orleans and then Houston and then Dallas. So my goal is to have a freedom center in every hood in America. That's beautiful. To make financial literacy accessible.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I have this saying, if you allow them to feed you, you give them permission to starve you. And we cannot afford to give people the ability to starve us. That's real.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
We have a presidential election up, and I always say, like, no matter who your political view is, that's your opinion.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
But nobody cares more about your money than you.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Nobody cares more about your family's financial stability than you. Yeah. And so you have this obligatory nunction to make sure your family good.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So we won't do that. And then the next thing is the goal is to create a book. Yeah. You know, we want to write a book. And then I want to be a husband.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So I think for me right now, I am I'm not dating, but I'm pursuing a woman.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I'm not dating, but I am pursuing. Okay. And I'm figuring out how that looks. That's beautiful. I love it. I'm figuring out how that looks from patience, from understanding, from communication, from Because what happens is you can be the successful man and you can say, yep, I'm at the top of the food chain. The world is my oyster.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Right. Or you can say, let me work on myself. Let me get myself right. And then let me find a woman and let me pursue her, court her, date her. Come on. You know what I'm saying? And then see where that goes. And so right now I am in a situation where this woman, before she made me feel safe and I had never felt that before.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I went through a phase where I told her, I can't love you, I don't have it in me. So I went to therapy for a year and I worked on myself and I went to getting the spiritual fulfillment from men that are married. That's key. Right. And I've been just a student to men who are honoring their wives because I come from an environment where I never saw that. Right.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so I'm asking all the questions. And so I made a decision after I went to Italy.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I said, all right, Trap, we do not. need to be traveling across this country.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so I was like, you know what? I had a situation where I think it was amazing. And I said, I really love that woman. But I didn't know how to express it. But now you do. I said, so now let me try to go back and right my wrong. Because it wasn't that I messed with women or nothing on her. Emotionally, I wasn't available. I was on some get this money. And there are seasons for that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
He was like, nah, it's not about that. He was like the game of life. And it's something about when you hear intelligence it'll put you at a stand, it paralyzed me. And the only thing about prison is anybody can tell you anything until they show you the paperwork. So he showed it to me in black and white, and I had never saw seven figures on a piece of paper like that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And there are seasons for it. But she just made me better as a man. She made me better. She's a woman that has standards. She was like, yo, like I don't feel safe emotionally here. So you gotta like do something about that. Let's talk about it. And so now that I'm better, so I try, I've been pursuing and we have been building and she hasn't made it easy.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
As she shouldn't. And I guess her thing was, I need you to show me that you are who you say you are.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Like you have the success. Cool. I get it. You are you're a great talker. Right. But you've been that way for so long.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I need to know. And so that has been so hard for me. Because I'm so used to getting what I want. When you want it. When I want it. And so that's what I leaned in on God a little more. And I say, God, this isn't just a lesson about her. This is a life lesson for me. Because if I'm truly going to follow you, you won't give me everything I want in the moment.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Yeah. And so it's like, okay. And so we've been talking. We've been dating. We've been, you know, and I told myself that I didn't want to, if I was going to pursue her, I didn't need to engage in trying to date other women. Because I would lose focus.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I know what you want. And so that's where I've been at. That's where I've been at. That's where I've been at. And I have been... I'm still a great communicator, so I like healthy relationships with people that I communicate with. That's important. But that's what I've just been pursuing.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Likewise. Yeah. Likewise. And whatever I can do to, you know, serve you and your audience. Thank you. Let me know. Like my mama is a huge fan. You know what I'm saying? So whatever we can do, whatever I can do. I like good people.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Thank you. I like good people. I like people like I see your journey. You know, I see your journey. And it's amazing to see, again, a woman that is. Like, okay, this, because you can easily be like, I'm this. Right? And not, like, when you saw me, he was like, hey, Trav. You saw my daughter, he was like, hey. And so that isn't something, that energy cannot be fake.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So God is doing something amazing for you. And so that's the people that I want to be connected to. I want to be people who understand that they are just a resource for the bigger source.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I'm a vessel, and I see that in you. I see you as a vessel through your character, through who you are in real life. I see that vessel, so... man, whatever I can do, this was an honor. So whatever I can do, let me know I'm here.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So he said, listen, he said, wealthy people stop trading time for money, they learn how to make their money work for them, and they learn how to give value to people because people will always be the asset. So that didn't make sense to me, because I never had heard it before. Like, man, I'm from the street, nigga. That's what you're talking about, man. The value of the people.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I'd use the same mentality that we had in the streets. It was give it away for free.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
They buying some dope or what, dog? And then, what we doing? Like, what you doing, bro? Like, what you talking about? And then he said, the three things that wealthy people do is... They invest in stocks because it's the easiest way to build wealth. They create a business because a business allows you to put a product in the marketplace.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And they buy real estate because real estate allows you to beat taxes. He said, if you learn those three things, you'll make more money than you ever made in your life and you'll be free. And I was like, okay. And he was showing me pictures, and I remember this is 1999, so there's no Instagram. These are Polaroid pictures of him in places like Iceland. And I remember this blew my mind.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I'm a little skinny dude from the hood. And him and his family were in this pond with steam coming from it and mountains behind it. And I was like, bro, that's real? Yeah, right. Like, that didn't match to me. How could they have mountains, and y'all sitting in this water, and you're not freezing to death? He was like, no, there's a place called the Blue Lagoon, and it's in Iceland.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Give it away for free. And if it's good for free, they'll pay for it.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I was like, Iceland? That's a real place? Straight out of the hood. I ain't been out of New Orleans too much, right? And so he was like, this is where money gets you. And so the rest of my time, I learned about the stock market. I was reading. I remember my first book was Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad. And it was a financial literacy. It was like a mindset about money.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And that kind of just changed my mind on, you know, there's people that's really moving. Because in my mind, if you was rich in America, you were selling dope by doing something crooked. Yeah. But it is. And I was like, there's a whole nother game out here. And so when I started looking at the stock market, I started realizing that, you know, these people are making tons of money.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Of us being consumers. So we really junkies. And that's how the market started making sense to me. I started putting in a street term. And so once I realized that, oh, the real gangsters ain't us on the street. The real gangsters is the dudes in the boardrooms, the dudes that's building these businesses, the dudes that's building businesses to make laws that benefit their businesses. I said, ah.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Checkmate. I ain't never been a dumb nigga. I might have made a mistake here and there. I might have made something, but I ain't never been dumb. Right? So I'm like, I bet. And so I just spent the rest of my time just reading everything I could about it. I done got in a whole bunch of fights in prison about trying to watch the stock market while they trying to watch the young and the restless.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I'm like, bro, you're not tired of watching Victor Newman, bruh? Like, come on, bruh. The Chancellor ain't died yet, dawg. Like, what we doing here? Yo, them people. Been there. Yes. So I was like, bro, we've been watching Jabou and Abbott cosmetics forever, bro. Like, I'm tired. And so I was just getting fights, but it was worth it. And so when I came home, I still ain't get it right.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I got a bag in the streets because it's a thing to have an idea. But to come home into the real world and execute that idea. It's a whole new ballgame. And so when people would be like, why this dude going back to the streets? He ain't tired of going to jail. And ain't that a person that ain't tired of going to jail? That's all he knows. That's the thing that make them feel like somebody.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Right, yeah. It's what makes them feel like they have control of their destiny, even though it ain't right. Right, yeah. And so I'm back in the streets and I wound up getting, the police wound up kicking in my door. They got 10 pounds of weed, a 40 with extended clip and a beam, a 223, 100 X pills, and a pint of lean. And I was like, yep. Yep, this is it. I'm going out like this.
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Here's the crazy part. When they kicked my door in, I wasn't in the house. They brought me to the house. The stock market was on. And I'll never forget this man telling me. You got to be a stupid nigga to be watching the stock market and still selling dope. Something ain't clicking right for you. You belong in jail. Wow. I said, Dad. And in my mind, I said, God, he's not right.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I don't belong there. I don't belong there. I was only home two years. God was with me. They kicked him through with no search warrant. It took me about 50 grand to fight those charges. I got fined. I guilty under what's called fruit of a poisonous tree, which means if you find something illegally, everything is no good. And I said, I hate God. That's it. I'm going to go legit.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So I had a little bread left, and I still ain't get it, though.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Nah, because I didn't have enough money.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
So me and my partner started robbing. We started robbing dope boys. Because, you know, there's certain rules I learned in the game, and it was... Like nine to five people are off limits. They ain't signed up for that. But if you in the street, you signed up for it. A shark don't care if you eat a tuna fish, a guppy, it don't matter. A lion will kill a gazelle and it'll kill a gazelle puppy.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
It's part of the game. And I was willing to face whatever came with that. I've been shot. I've been stabbed. I almost got put in a trunk before. I almost got kidnapped. I done been in it all. There's nothing you can tell me about the streets that I haven't done. Are you going to do a movie? That's why I got you.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
That's why I got you. Listen, God making connections here. Yes. Right?
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Let's go. And so me and my partner started, we started robbing dope boys. We started jacking them. We started traveling and doing it because I was a thinker. So I knew how to put it together. Wow. I knew how to put it together. And then we hit this one lick and we missed a couple steps. And the dude had a 12 gauge to the back of my head. Oof. And I was like, damn, I'm about to go out like this.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I remember just saying, God, forgive me. If I got to go like this, I got to go like this.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And that wasn't the first time.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
You know that come with the game.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
It's kind of like a person working a job and you know they're going to get fired.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Like, all right, let me just get another job.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
The only time you think about getting out of the streets is when you're in a situation where there's life or death. But after you get past that situation, you're like, bro, this is all I know. And my partner came, and my partner, God bless his soul, he passed away maybe a couple years later from sickle cell.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I remember him telling a dude, it only took about seven to eight seconds, he said, listen, if you shoot my home, there's going to be three dead people right here. You gonna die, your homie gonna die, and my homie gonna be dead. And I'ma still get all the bread. So the best thing for you to do is let my homie go, and we'll let the money go. We'll call it even.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And I just remember the dude putting the gun down. And I remember leaving, And the money we did, I gave it to my dog. I said, bro, I'm done. I said, man, I can't do this no more, dog. And my dog was like, man, you tripping, man. Man, man, you know this part of the game. You done saved my life. I done saved your life. I'm like, yeah, dog, but I done did 10. I done been in multiple shootouts.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I done got shot. I done found out guilty. And now this, bro. Like, bro, I can't keep beating the game.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
I can't keep beating the game. And I said, bro, I ain't ready to die, dog. I said, bro, you can have it. And that was the last time I was like, I'm good. And so I started working as an iron worker. I started taking that serious. I learned how to weld. I learned how to, like, I built the Falcon Stadium out here. Really? Yeah.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Built the Falcon Stadium, built a stadium in Minnesota, built some of Texas A&M. I was building all the plants and power plants outside of New Orleans. And I was still making hustle money. I was making like $2,500 to $3,000 a week. And so I said, all right. This remind me of dope money. I said, I'm gonna take the stock market serious.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
Okay. Okay. So I really was telling my homies about it heavy. And I remember telling them like, bro, like, you know, we wine is Louis Vuitton. Bro, that's on the stock market. LVMH. Like, oh, we buying these iPhones. It's on the stock market. We buying Nike. We buying Dickies and Timberlands. That's on the stock market. We buying alcohol. It's on the stock market. And I remember
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One day, my homies, we went to the club and they bought this Hennessy and I had the Fendi on. And I said, y'all know the same company own this. And they was like, all right. And so you gotta make it make sense.
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And I'm telling them, y'all making me money. You bought another bottle, you made me some money. And so I remember telling my homie one day, I said, bro, we gonna get killed. We don't even got life insurance. Let's at least have our money in the stock market so that when we die, we at least give our kids something.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And the one thing that really made it make sense to me was when the police kicked my door in, they took my truck, they took my money that was in my bank account, they took the money that was on my dresser and all that, but they didn't touch my money that was in the stock market. I said, ah, I ain't never been a stupid nigga.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
so that from there we just i really started taking it serious um 2019 i quit the job they wanted me to cut my beard and i was like man i ain't cut my beard man the welders the world yeah because i was working in a plant okay and they wanted us to go in this segment of the plant where you had to wear this mask and i was like man get somebody else to do that i'm not doing that and um it was like nah we need you to go because you can well overhead i was like i'm not doing it and so
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I said, man, look, just pack my stuff. I'm good. And I was like, I'm all in on the market. And then a friend of mine, she had me the first million dollars with this hair care product. And so she wanted to put her money in the market and she didn't trust a financial advisor. So I was like, man, look, put your money right here. Put your money right here. Buy this stock.
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Get rid of all that they got you doing. So I said, go accent. And she came back and she was like, yo. You need to teach us that on Instagram because that makes sense. And I was like, man, I don't want to hear nothing about that. And so one of my partners who was at, as a man think, his name Greedy, he told me, he said, dog, you really just a nerd and a street nigga body.
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So my partner told me something that was dope. He said, there's so many people that want to invest in the market that they don't talk to.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
You the bridge, dog.
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The Money Mindset Part Two w/ The Wall Street Trapper
And so when I first started doing it, my goal was just to get dudes in the street, out the street. It was the girls who I know was dancing and stripping to get them out of the club because a lot of them was losing their life. There was, you know, New Orleans, like a thing in New Orleans is, I don't know how it is in other places, but
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What's good, family? You made it! It's so surreal just to hear that. It's so surreal just to hear that, to just... knowing how far I came, knowing how far the journey has been. And to hear that is so profound. I'm so grateful for that.
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Big things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm excited. Thank y'all for having me. Thank you for having me. I'm so proud of you. Thank you. Saw you at Woman Evolved and my heart was like, ah,
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Yes, getting that fulfillment is important for me. I guess we'll talk about it. I just did the same thing with the guys. As a leader, it is important for the people who rock with me to be on the same journey as me so we can all align. I got the saying right now, it's God and money. So we got to go God first and then we can get the money next.
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We can get the money because God didn't tell us to be broke.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
he did not say that he did not he did not that is so true they didn't tell us that so just uh this journey is so phenomenal i'm still in all every step of the way yeah it's so beautiful seeing your journey like even seeing you be more out loud and like visual with your relationship with christ i think it's beautiful it's because he's been out loud with me
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My transformation has taken place right in front of people's eyes. And I've always tried to put God first, but we was doing a tour in 2023. We did a tour and we was doing like six to 700 people, just me per city. And I went to my guy, Jose, and I said, Jose, The message not coming across like I want and I know why.
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I see because God is giving me the platform and I ain't giving him the glory out loud. Trap. I said that. That's real. And then from that second city on, the first slide on the tour was a scripture that I would break down.
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I would do one or two scriptures. First one was like the man with the talents. Right. And I learned that in that time, a talent was equivalent to 20 to 40 years worth of servitude. And I was like, yeah, God and money.
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God and money. And so that was my way of saying, God, I got you.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
And so since then, it's just been this the journey I'm on. And slowly but surely, God is just, he's opening up so many ways for me. And I keep telling people that the more you increase your capacity, the more God will increase your territory. And so for me, increasing my capacity is looking at the parts of me that I'm not sufficient in. Like I'm not patient. Right.
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Because I'm going to go get her.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
And so I don't wait. Like I had a problem with waiting for God to do it. All right. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to get it done. And what we realize is that when we do it, I always tell Jose this. Our best play is not in God's playbook.
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It's our play. It ain't his play. So it's going to take me longer. And so this year, 2024 has been about yielding. I love that. Yielding my heart, my spirit, my money, my business, and love.
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So I'm 42. Me too. Okay, shut up. Come on.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
So because I come from the streets, born and raised in New Orleans. Went to prison when I was 16 for attempted murder. Saw my mom get shot when I was nine. I emotionally was bankrupt throughout my whole life. The streets didn't allow me the freedom to have emotion because emotion will get you killed. And so I went through my life keeping women at a distance.
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Because I wound up getting robbed because a woman had set me up, but it was part of the game. So I didn't, but I kept the residue of that with me, right? And I went through my whole life just on some, I can't afford that. And then when I came home from prison, I witnessed so many men who would use women to get to other men. And I was a part of that at a point.
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Like, no, you pretty, go do this for me so we can, it's part of the game. And so that trauma sat on me. And so when I became successful, it became even harder
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You know what I'm saying? It became even harder for me to trust and it became harder for me to be vulnerable like that. And so I just stayed away from it. And then I met somebody who made it worth it in a way. But I wasn't capable.
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Wasn't. I didn't know how to express that. And so that forced me to do something I didn't think I would have to do. It was go to therapy.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Therapy has been so therapeutic. My therapist told me something one day. He said, listen, it's going to be hard. And I said, man, listen. I've been shot. I've been to prison. I need to talk about this stuff. But what also helped me was he's a therapist that leads with God. That's important, yeah. Right?
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
And so I started talking to him about how I felt about seeing my mama get shot. How I felt for me to shoot a man and never deal with that because I thought it was normal. how it felt to be shot, how it felt to go to court and get found not guilty and nobody be in the room with me, how it felt for me to do 10 years and not have people support me.
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Like going through the world as a loner and how I harbored that. And because I didn't have a pathway to express it, I let it callous me. And so therapy became this place where I started to cry. And it felt good.
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You've been a little girl.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Yeah. Emotionally imprisoned. Emotionally incarcerated. Feeling that the vulnerability is what makes you weak, when in reality, the vulnerability makes us strong. It's the ability to say, no, I feel this way about this situation, and I need to express it. Because when you hold it in, it starts to turn into resentment. And resentment can lead to you imploding.
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And as a man with a daughter, I never need to implode. I need to be able to show her how much I love her. She needs to know every day that, yo, my daddy loved me. Like in so many different ways. And the only way that I could do that was being so in touch with myself where, because I had moments where I would cry and I would be like, I can't let my daughter see this.
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And so that's that's been the journey for me. And so as I went to therapy and I was like, OK, this feels good and started building these spiritual relationships with with people, people in church. Yeah, that That was me saying, God, I see you. I see you. Cause I can't, I don't, this is, I'm an infant here. I can't just read the word and interpret it. I need somebody to guide me. Right.
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And so I had my therapist and then I had these spiritual big brothers come in my life. And this year has been the best year for me ever.
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You have to. Yeah. It's because when we are the visionary.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
The people will not necessarily follow you. They believe in the vision. And I have to be a conduit. And anybody that doesn't have the same currency with me throws me off. And I think about when Jesus was walking and the lady touched him.
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He was like, who touched me? And they're like, no, no, no, no. Like all these people. He was like, no, no, no. There was a certain type of touch.
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It's a certain type of touch. Right. And so for me, I need the people around me to have a certain type of touch.
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So when they following me or when they inspire by me, they're moving in this authentic. That's amazing. And you talked about the patient. So that this Galatians five and twenty two is one of my favorites because it talks about the fruit of the spirit.
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Right. And inside of that, there's two things that I love. It's depending on what book you read, it'll say forbearance or it'll say long suffering. And then it'll say self-control. And the reason why that's important, because to be patient.
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But it also tells us to wait patiently, we hope, and to rejoice during turmoil. So for me, I've been through so much turmoil, and instead of letting the turmoil get me mad, it's like, oh, God, at my weakest is when you work the most. It is. Oof. It is. Okay, Beth, I got you.
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I know you're working. You're trying to expose me to something. You're trying to let me see something. You're trying to navigate me to something. So when I get frustrated, I take control. And that's when I lose. Yep. Yes. Yeah. God will test you. The enemy will tempt you. I got to make sure that I pass the test and not fall for the temptation.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
And whatever the temptation may be in me, I need to get this done in the time that I needed to get done. I need this to move. This business is not moving. So when I yield it, I say, nah, God, you got it all. And just give me the instructions. And so I'm just walking now with this flow in my life. I just took them into as a man thinking.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
So mind you, my circle is 80% of convicted felons. Only 20% of the people that I know now is people who I've met as an entrepreneur. Right. And so my people from the street be hitting me. They're like, bro, that guy stuff real? This is a question. Yeah. And for the average person, they be like, how could you? No, no, no, because when you in the streets,
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
You asking for God to get you through criminal activity sometimes. God, let me hit this lick because you know I need this bread. Right. God, I'm about to do this. God, please don't let me get hit with a bullet, but let him get hit with it. Yeah. Right? And so now they see me and they looking at me and they like, nah, say trap like. Like, you really moving like that?
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That's God for real? Like, you serious or that just for Instagram?
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
I'm like, nah, bro, that's me. And so they come with me to, as a man, think it. And they all have these breakthroughs. They crying. These gangsters. I'm talking about three of my homies. One did 25 for attempted murder. He just come home. My other homie did 15 for manslaughter. He been home a few years. The other one did 20 years for murder and then me for attempted murder. They with me.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
As a man thinking, crying, having their own breakthroughs. Yes. But it's because I'm the conduit.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
God, it can't be just about money.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Because if we make it just about money, we can't go where we need to go at.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
No, you can't. So we got to put God first and say, God, like, yo, it says Proverbs 10 and 4, diligent hands build wealth.
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Poor hands make for lazy. So, okay, if he tells us to be diligent, let me just be diligent. God gives us the ability to produce wealth. So he's saying, like, bro, I don't want y'all to be poor, but you got to listen to me. And so that's where my obedience at. I love it.
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Because she needs to, again, everybody around me needs to be a believer. Yep. If you're around me, and what happens is not me pushing my belief on nobody. It's just saying that if I believe this, And there's conversations, and there are environments that I'll be in. And if we're building something and you can't come here with me, there's gonna cause a disconnect between us.
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It's nothing against you, but this is where I'm at. Right? This is where I'm at. And so, first it was the women. You know, because I have two family members that work in my business. And I was like, yo, I'm going to Woman Evolve. I want y'all to go. Because me, I want to. I'm the person that when I do something, I'm all in. Like, I'm throwing my whole everything into it.
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So I'm like, God, if I'm on this journey, I'm all in. I'm going to call my mama right now. Me and my mama usually be in a car. We listen to rap music. We've been listening to gospel music. She's like, what that is? Son, let me download that. I like that. Oh, wow. And so they went and they was like, yo, this is good. Right? And let me say something. To see 40,000 women praising God.
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That was an experience. It was.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Brenda like you look at all these people that like I'm not where they are but in my space I'm reaching people for God for sure and I had even got to a place yeah huh you're a big deal no no no we so I think sometimes we are and that's a great thing so I just I told Pastor Don this um um maybe like Saturday I was uh I was crying.
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So one thing about therapy is like, I've been crying now and I'd be okay with it. Yeah. I'm crying. I'm listening to the word. And he came up to me and I looked at him. I said, man, I'm not worthy of this. I'm not worthy of everything that he's given me. I said, I'm not worthy. And he looked at me and he said,
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
because you feel like you're not worthy is exactly why you are worthy listen yes you hear me yes he said you don't gotta downplay yourself but that humility yes is why god can keep trusting you yes literally no that's it yeah and woman evolve
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So me and my mom's relationship has been traumatic for a long time because she dealt with, I think she was 16, in that era where a 16 year old having a kid in the 80s, they down there like, nah, they off her. So she was bold enough to say, I'ma keep him. but then she fought her own demons, right?
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Which went to her being in the street, which her being, her shooting somebody, her robbing, her jacking, her being shot in the streets. She wound up doing five years in prison. And then I become the residue of that. And for the longest, I didn't realize that I had resentment for my mom. Because you left me, I became homeless. My family didn't take me in.
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My uncle took me in for a little bit, but I was so wild, he couldn't keep me. So I'm back in New Orleans, and I'm in survival mode. And I didn't realize for the longest that I resented my mom. And as much as I tried to love her, I loved her, but I could not be around her. If she asked me for five cents, I would be like, why are you asking me for money?
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And so therapy, my therapist told me, you'll never love a woman until you're able to love your mom.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
He's like, you love your daughter because that's your flesh. That's your blood.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
but you'll never love a woman. This is why you have these issues. You gotta get to root of that. So we start working on that. So we had a woman evolve and I had been working on myself enough and I'm like, mom wants you to come. Right? And she comes. And she was kind of like in her phone for a minute, and I said, mom.
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Pay attention.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Put the phone down. Pay attention. I need you here. Like this moment is, she don't know, but in my mind, this is pivotal for us.
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And I'll never forget the queen was on there. She was talking about her issue with alcohol. And I said, mom, pay attention. So my mom started paying attention. She was locked in, and then we went to lunch. And then after lunch, Pastor Donham said, Trap, come on the floor. I was like, no, man, I'm good. He was like, no, no, no, come on the floor.
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And I was like, all right, God, I'm not going to fight this. So we all get to the floor and worship and everything. And I looked at my mom in the back. She started crying.
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So the next day we come, we on the floor. I said, got her. So my friend said, go hug your mama. She needs you right now. So I hug my mama. She crying. And I just said, God, you working.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
And so we go to dinner that night and I called my friend and I was like, yo, this is so good. And she said, I want you to know something. She said, you think going to therapy was about your ability to love again and to be able to show me love. But really, it was the breakthrough for you and your mom. She said, because I watched how you nurtured her. And that's why I'm proud of you.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
You nurtured her. You pulled her close, something you wouldn't have done.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
And since Woman Evolved, we have been, what's up, babe? What you doing?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Just the relationship has evolved because when God, when you allow, when you identify what it is. So most people see the triggers and when they see the trigger, they keep running away from the trigger, which keep building the callus. So instead of me running away from it, you know, let me embrace it, but let me embrace it with God. Let me move the feeling.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Let me move the act of the flesh to the side. Let me move with the fruit of the spirit because first Corinthians 13, four and eight says, love is patient. Love is kind. Love is gentle. And if I can't be that with my mama.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
So I'm just there. And so we've been so good. We've been so good.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
We've been so good. And so that's what woman evolved there for me.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
It helped me and my mama just... You know? So good. Oh, I thank Pastor Sarah for that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Bishop told me this one day. He said, your authenticity is what's needed today. He said, you have charisma, you have transparency, and you have influence. when you let God do it, it'll blow your mind. And so that's kind of just why I've been there. And when I look at how God uses people, he always used misfits.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
They look like us. And so for me, that's what makes me step in it. more proudly because I'm like, yeah, it's the imperfections that make me relatable.
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The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
I don't gotta be, they know, yup, Trapp went to prison for this, Trapp did this. And now, look, and it's so many, for me, it's so many men that's coming to me. And as men, it is very hard for a man to come to another man and say, I'm following you. Because we don't know how to do that. No.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
I'm an old man. And so many men have been coming to me like, say, bro, like, I needed that. Keep doing that. I'm following you, bro. Now you're making me a better father. Yeah. And I'm getting money. Listen. You're bringing me close to God. Yeah. And I'm getting money. I love that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
It can't be just about money. No. Because if we make it just about money, we can't go where we need to go at. No, you can't. So we got to put God first and say, God, like, yo, it says Proverbs 10 and 4, diligent hands build wealth.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Money Mindset w/ Janell Stephens & The Wall Street Trapper
Poor hands make for lazy, so okay, if he tells us to be diligent, let me just be diligent.