Season 1 Episode 2: Stop Folding Like Play-Doh And Get In The Fire

Sensitivity gets treated like a liability, but I see it as a creative advantage. If you’ve ever thought “I’m an artist and I’m sensitive about my work,” you’re not alone and you’re not broken. We talk about why the best artists tend to feel more, notice more, and process the world more deeply, and how that awareness can become your edge instead of your exhaustion.

I also walk through a metaphor I can’t shake: you are clay. Life applies pressure, hands shape you, and the fire sets you. The goal isn’t to avoid the heat, it’s to decide what kind of art you’re becoming on the other side. From there we move into the question of the week: if you were your own best friend, what advice would you give yourself today? That one shift can change your self-talk, your confidence, and your next move.

Then we get into execution and money strategy. Ideas are currency, but only if you act on them, protect them, and put them in the right rooms. We talk about why there’s money in your difference, why AI makes originality and lived experience even more valuable, and how money mindset is driven by identity more than information. We also touch the music industry reality: ownership, publishing, contracts, and why creators have to learn the business if we want the freedom.

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Transcript

Opening Track And Welcome

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Your niggas that fuck with the one for the good niggas It's the bitches that stop it lick Dark skinned, light skinned, Asian and white women Five beats we know about you Don't buy shoes unless the populace My niggas pop and that match is fit that o'clock My niggas set that call match that shit with me fucking me My niggas don't pass that shit to me for my nickels and bitch to bat that money catch out Got a lot just to break them bad holes that I don't fuck with no snitches So don't tell me who spell No This one for them colleges Them bad holes that spell them fresh Instagram straight flag Talk the miler I'll sweat Talk the miler I'll sweat Mama always told me So I count your back trust So I count count in the fight I'm a touch I took light You know this let me get your ass a check why go wide to go tight go right it's not got IOD joint them I stop no time off I'm starting okay and this top for them fuck niggas to hang on this top fuck up sit behind your back butt what take shit in five Go all the my right gold of my wife Don't believe me dead white nigga nigga nigga don't believe me dead white whack Don't believe me dead white nigga nigga nigga don't believe me dead white don't believe me dead white my right goal all of my highly unique radio watch watch what's up what's up what's up y'all welcome to the gold room you're listening to Neo Gold on Highly Unique Radio Oh it's a beautiful beautiful day outside sun is shining and so are you me too oh my goodness I'm so excited um to be able to talk to you guys today the gold room is literally about people who've said yes to themselves and giving you permission to say yes to yourself too we specialize in talking to artists entrepreneurs those of the sort and today we're just gonna delve right into it the first thing that I think of when I think about an artist is I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my shit.

Why Great Artists Are Sensitive

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Eric Odu is not lying okay when she said that that line from Eddie Murphy also wasn't a joke either. He said that the best artists are the most sensitive and I'm like these two things go hand in hand. Why does the best artist make why is the best artist the most sensitive? And it's because they're the most in tune in tune with what's really going on they're really tapped and aware of what's going on. Science back says too about 15 to 20% of people are considered highly sensitive meaning their brains process emotions and environments more deeply. That's not a weakness that's them showing rage that's them being able to feel the different dynamics and shifts in a room not being too much or or too little but being just right for those for those environments. So I'm here to talk about that specifically our sensitivity. It's okay that you be crying girl I be crying too like life happens things happen. But what we have to do with the things that are happening is allow it to be able to um change us. Not try to stay the same version of ourselves that we were before the change occurred. We have to allow ourselves to shift with the movement, with the change and allow it to uh make something new completely. Make something new. There are so many times in this world where um things will try to mold you family will try to mold you social media will try to mold you trends uh survival mode um what they teach you in school will all try to mold who you are but it's up to you to figure out who the best version of yourself is and not the mass produced version of yourself. You have to truly embody what it means to be handcrafted and self-made. How do we get there? How do how do we get there? Right? How do we figure out how to flow into who we are while remaining sensitive while remaining who we were born as that kind of like version of ourselves that that that is able to be moved by things. Right?

SPEAKER_21 4:59

So we'll delve into that in the next segment I'm gonna play just one song for y'all just one song okay so here we go here we go it may not mean nothing to y'all understand nothing was done for me so I don't plan on stopping it all I want this shit for never mind never mind never mind shut the shit down in the mm still never she doesn't I want the shit for ever mind last name ever first name greatest like a sprint nickel point in the paper started off cocoa but thanks to all the haters I know G form polic on a first name basis niggas did it faded off the ground Nino G and stick you got more class Weino swimming in the money coming by mebo if I was at the club you know I'm bomb chemo dropped a bit that shit sounded like an album who the thought a country buy to be the outcome labels with my name but I act like Malcom Everybody gotta deal I did it without one yeah nigga I'ma find my business chillin' I'll be crapping you would swear I had a hit everyone who got it me is got to keep this if you ain't been a part of it elite you got to get this for money for mine for money in the building ain't no question about the key is that we're just got this like this hey I went off the fall like the bottom just about to make the way my story my dumb status Oh my button me make love you would think I'm in the world I must get those husband You would think these niggas know me when they put me does and like this with the only thing fucking buzzing go to the flag just to have my twenty pack and backy back chasing the scardy act on the way in Hollywood I can't act and put the camera down and got baby snaps I used to put this thing forever y'all got it back mean nothing um nothing never mind ever mind Hello it's the Marshall space and gardenship wake up and smell the pardon fresh up in the harvest step up to the target if I have one test then I guess I'm just new and I will left I come running from the top I dump in my top and full myself to the top I just like the fuck and roll the coast and it's what shall I spoon this is my blue heart I'm my thoughts pistol on my side you don't wanna hit it let the pink check the price of pinch little paint that's what they have a spin I'm like the baby in the middle of the box I'm testing in the pin I need the thing I think uh things I don't think uh it's different for me stick but mine split this both that's they go back and take the you make up the rope we can make no these one the rich split this bow no just one four they don't like ghost the way to be don't you know the bottom is ghost back into the game and then go back in the beat the same bolts that the plane you can put the down it's in the sick back the five you can find the mouth for me I want this shit forever money never mind never mind shit down in the mark and sun girl she was working for me and I need a plan in the car I want this shit forever mine ever mind ever mine ever mind ever I wear a m I want this shit forever too man come on now come on now they really went hard with that song man I I want this shit forever too and that's what that's what we as artists are building towards right a legacy what is the legacy that we're trying to build so right before the song break we started talking about how to how to mold ourselves how do we get to the certain the space that we're trying to be in and allow our sensitivity to guide us and to lead us to the next phase right so that that is something that's super deep super super deep and I just want to let y'all know again y'all listening to Neo Go and on highly unique radio and this is the goal room the place to be okay send it to your friend your friend friend and your mama them because everybody needs a little uh you know in a Saturday okay so come on um but yes let's get back to the topic so we're talking about how we can mold ourselves how we can get to the space that we really want to be in and allow our sensitivity to really guide

Clay, Pressure, And The Fire

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us.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

So the way that I like to think about it is like clay. You are and I am like clay and God in the universe or whomever you serve um is your co-creator. And the part that most people think is that clay in order for it to really become the art that it is it has to be to go into account. It has to be put through the fire right so when you think about when you've ever seen if you've ever seen pottery or anything like that, you see the artist holding the clay in their hands and they're able to move it literally with the palms of their hands they're able to shift it in the moment so the clay is sensitive. It's able to be moved just in one second in one moment to be to make to be made something new. Sometimes you even see them smash it like oh they it looked like they were about to make a m a a bowl and then they smash it and then they start over again. That's what happens in life right that's what happens with us. A lot of the time we will w we will think that we are about to become something else but then the universe is like nah actually this is what I wanted you to become this is what I really wanted for you to do. So in that time it's very intense because we don't think about if the clay has emotions. We don't think about if the clay is really feeling it's like or or anything like that. All we see is that art is being made and that's the same thing that's happening in your life. That's the same thing that happens in our lives um a lot of the time we'll see celebrities or people out in the world and we're like man this person is holding it down this person is doing such a great job wow this wow that but we don't see the back end of what they really have going on. We don't see how God or the universe is shaping them or forming them how their clay is being molded. We don't see any of that. All we see is the art on the outside but then just like that ball getting smashed we'll see some celebrities get smashed in public and it's like dang I can't believe that happened to them or all you know we all ha always have so much to say about what's happening in their lives but then you'll see them start to grow again and start to become anew again and that's the same thing just like you these celebrities these high highly influential people are just like you they share the same characteristics as you we are ninety nine point nine percent the same right but what makes you different what makes you highly unique standing in your difference is what's gonna help you help you figure out how do I really show up as myself right not hiding the thing. So when you allow yourself to be molded into this art know that what's next is you getting put through this hand, you're getting put through the pressure, being able to stand the test of time and being able to go through this fiery moment and you're like, oh my gosh it's hot in here there's so much happening there's there's pain happening. What do I do? And sometimes the best thing for you to do is sometimes you have to think and withstand the fire and then allow the the potter you, you know, in your um energetic sense to be able to move yourself move and move and allow your intuition to be able to guide you. So the real question is when the fire is done, what do you want to see? What kind of art are you going to allow yourself to become because to be real a lot of us be folding like Plato okay? We you fold and real like Plato and then we be like man how come I'm not in this phase or how come I'm not where I want to be and it's like you're not where you want to be because you refuse to go through the fire. You refuse to get put put through the fire and you don't even know what you want to see or what you want to become when you're done. Right? When life gets intense you can't just panic. You can't just be like man I'm just broken. No bruh you're being set the same way that you have to you know for the girls you gotta set your hair you gotta set them edges okay you gotta lay them down for a second and put the little uh y'all know the little cute thing that the wig that the wig girls are putting on to cover the edges or whatever it comes in teeter print sometimes. You know what I'm talking about. You gotta set it and allow allow it to be able to um stay in place for a while and then you can take that thing off and uh do a lot of things read me out the plays that got me active brand new for real like then that thing comes everything is a process though. You have to allow yourself to understand that every single thing is a process and what comes next, right? So before we get into our question of the week I'm gonna take y'all through another song break um and let y'all sit with that and let y'all really think about what do you want to see when the fire is done. When you have been molded when you have been crafted and you're going on to the next thing what it is what is it that you want to see because to me to me I'm like hey man I'm trying to see everything covered in gold you know Oh my goodness. Um I'm trying to see everything covered in gold I'm trying to see everything that I've seen in my life become something greater that uh and understand that my testimony had a purpose and had a reason. I had a reason to go through all the fire that I went through and to be able to really stand in that. So I'm gonna take y'all to this next song and I feel the same way like like my boy Kanye when he said y'all can't tell me nothing. Wait, wait till I get my money right okay then y'all really gonna see it for real. So see with that we'll be right back. You're listening to the Go Room on Highly Unique Radio and I am Neo Go.

SPEAKER_21 18:03

To Highly Unique Radio This is the world I have been through a listening to highly unique radio God Satan wanna put me in a bow tie pray that the holy water don't go dry yeah yeah I some look around me so many motherfuckers wanna tell me but the big gonna never tell me in front of my dirty double member they tell me and I love myself the world is a girl look I'm at you crazy What you gon' do flop your head and keep moving but let the parrot know you aren't short piece the fashion pull leaf so in my heart on my sleeve let the runway start you know the minus a boat do the company what do you want from me in my scars everybody lack comedy everybody lack confidant how many times my potential was anonymous how many times the city making me promises so I promised this wanna see some walk outside and a bomb in the street and a gun and a hood and a mob on my least and I rock on a corner and I'm full of being and a model full of lean and a model on a speed yeah these days of frustration keep your low duck in rotation I duck these co-faces post up these five four four faces dreams a reality piece blow steam in the face of the beast the sky can fall down the wind can fry down the strong can make I still smile down belly beat down beep on the world is the game do what it won't whenever they want to give a still beat a town I want the world last night put up a meta weapon what it call a medic I'm gonna do it till I get it right I want to work last night I'm gonna do it with the button never to add a left and duck and never yet I've got the knock and do I see the message second duck and do a week for my neck and we'll start in the body for my two button so bad I'll be back in a second man it's so hard that to act reckless the whole much is giving way tested get arrested guess until it get the message feel the pressure under more scrutiny and what I do act more stupidly walk more jewelry more Louis V My mama couldn't get through to me the drama for people suing me I'm on Keep me talking like it's this doing me. I'm gonna figure out the hill, man. I am one of the cards design for the hill, man. I guess the money's gonna taste. I guess I'm finna forget where I came from. When to like my money, I love me to tell me nothing right. Let up a suicide doors. This is my life, only you decide yours.

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I need to be free, of course.

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But I couldn't tell you who the side was, so I'm parallel double fucking motherfucker skyways. Oh folks talking about back in my day. But homie, this is my day. Class started two hours ago. Oh, am I late? No, I'm already graduated. And you can live through anything if magic made it. Oh, it's so empty. Stop the way you go into pollen team. Let me know what Mr. Pollin is. I mean palin' in uh Mr. Light Lay tell me dust I mean, I'll be done. Let the damn face fast, let that man get fast, let that man get fast. If we can move through the room, I think it's fine for a few cards. I move in a room full of holes. I stay faithful in a room full of holes. Must be the fellows in your tomb with a stone. So when he buried in a tomb full of gold, which no flesh, life is the uh dependin' how you dress up. So with the devil with a father, Adam Eve winning on the I'm in between with way more pressure, way less effort. It's when you try hard, it's when you die hard. Your homies looking like my god, when they win, it's over you, my god.

Be Your Own Best Friend

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What's up, what's up, y'all? Welcome back to the gold room. This is your host, Neo Gold on Highly Unique Radio. Oh, we tuned and tap in today. Uh, I hope y'all are feeling right outside or in the house, whatever your seas is today. I hope that you are enjoying yourself because it it looks too good outside, okay? It looks too good outside, feel too good inside. Alright, so we're gonna get into our question of the week again. This week, the question is the question of the week is if you were your own best friend, what advice would you give yourself today? If you were your own best friend, what advice would you give yourself today? Because a lot of the time we like to give our friends a tenth and crazy. Bro, you so crazy, bro. Why you do that? We we love everybody else in their own life. Yeah, when it comes to ourselves, we like to critique ourselves. We like to be overly critical. Um at least as me. I don't know if some people would just be like, hey bro, I did it. You know, if you were your best friend, what would you tell yourself? About your art, about your the project that you're working on this week, about what you told yourself um Italy today. What would you say? Because I know for myself this week was a very interesting week for me. I had I had to get a tooth surgery this week, I had uh a lot of stuff going on, but I realized that the voice that was talking to me in my head was very like, Hey man, we just gotta keep prevailing. And then I had this other thing, you know, on the shoulder. Y'all know the little the black thing on the shoulder, the white thing on the shoulder, whatever to be talking to you. For me, it was like you can't do it. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on? Why are you talking to me like that? Like you can't be here. You can't you can't be talking to me like you're crazy. Like, uh So I had to really nip it in the bud and and really get to get in the field with myself and talk to myself and be like, yo, Neo, like you got this. It doesn't matter what it is, you can embody it because you're called to do so, you know. And I realized that when I'm talking to my friends and I'm telling them, like, listen, friends, I know you got this going on, but look, like, you you deserve better. And you know, I talked to them for a whole hour about this is this is why you need to get this stuff together and you need to go to the spa or whatever the case may be. And I found that I used to not tell talk to myself like that. I used to just allow myself to feel however it is that I felt. But within the last I was in the last year, I've really been getting in the booth of myself and telling myself like, yo, bruh, you got this, you can handle this, and getting in the mirror and telling myself in the mirror, like, hey, bruh, I'm so happy and grateful now that I have this or that I'm able to do this, because what a blessing it is to be able to be able to communicate with other people, but be but also be able to pull whatever's out of you that isn't helping you. Right. Most of us are walking around giving incredible advice to everyone around us and farming ourselves. Like you deserve the same, right? Let me actually show that we solve problems more effectively than we think. As being like and belonging to someone else. So if you do the same thing for yourself psychological psychological Psychological Psychologists call it self- when you are able to give yourself the same kind of advice that you would have given a friend or a homie or your parent or something like that. But the advice is better just because you're thinking of yourself being separate from it. You become a better advisor to yourself when you step outside of your own fear for a moment. So today I would encourage you to be your own friend today. Like be your own friend, show up for yourself. And not just in the expectation of I just I want someone else to show up for me like this, and I want I want this and I want that. You show up for you like that, and people will respond to you the way that you are responding to yourself. That is the question of the week. If you were all your own best friend, what advice would you give yourself today? Take on that because I know you need some advice for that. I know you need some advice. That's why you're listening to me right now, because I got this on y'all I'm trying to give y'all trying to get y'all something that you can take it to the next week, that you can teleprate and telepromp. But I need you to also hear me and tell yourself, like, hey bruh, I need to get my own stuff together. How can I how can I check myself today? How can I love myself better today? How can I, right? So we're gonna go ahead and go into our next song, and then we're gonna get into a segment talking about ideas being being currency. I had the pleasure of um being able to see two chains this week at his book sign in, and he talked about ideas being currency. So I wanted to bring that to the table for y'all and allow y'all to get some of the gold nuggets that I got, right? So you're listening to the gold room on Highly Unique Radio. This is your host, Neo Gold. Stay tuned and tapped in with me. Here we go.

SPEAKER_27 31:09

You're listening to Highly Unique Radio.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Skin gold. Skin your side place. That's best singing the room. Never church for anybody else in the world. Skin girl. Skin your side firm. That's the best thing in the world. Never church for anybody else, singing.

SPEAKER_09 31:34

That's a really group boy like me. Don't believe nothing but the other mighty. Touch a little jeans and up your IT. She never do but ever be nobody wifey. Yeah, I mean that with the budget arches on me. Play it like a villainka, she got in a way. Tonight, yeah, yeah, I am walking away. Like a bite, my nana grind, yeah, yeah. Tonight, I might fall in love. Depending on how you owe me. I'm glad that I'm calming down. I let no one come control me. Keep dancing and call it up. She fights it by falling slowly. If ever you are in girl, remember what mama told me, brown skin girl. That skin just like perks. Don't fight against the world. I never tried it for anybody else. Brown skin girl. That skin just like girls. I never tried you for anybody else.

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Like a trophy when they home is walking. She need an ask her for the pretty dark skin. Pretty like Lupito when the camera's closing. Rip walk a living when my killer's rolling. I think tonight she might break her break. Fellin' into dark to throw her change. She into business and whattees. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 32:57

Tonight I might fall in up. Depending on how you owe me. I'm blah blah blah. I'm coming down. Can't let no one come control me. Keep dancing and callin' up. She's biting by falling slowly. If ever you want, remember what mama told me, Brown skin. That's gonna be still up. I never tried it for anybody else. That's getting just like birds. I like stinking like the work.

SPEAKER_34 33:36

I never trudged it for anybody else. You look in the mirror lady. Wish you could try it as with me because complexities in complexion. What your skin is hold like diamonds. See me like the earth you be giving. To everything alive, living know your words. I love everything about you from your nappy curves. To every single cover about the natural same skin that was broken before Same skin taken over. Things are the focus view, but when you are in the moon, they know it's true.

unknown 34:11

It's true.

SPEAKER_34 34:12

It's a beautiful beautiful story.

SPEAKER_12 34:56

To a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_27 34:58

Man, I thought I mean out.

SPEAKER_12 35:01

Like your pictures, not returning sexes. I guess it's fine, man. I get the message. You still start to ask the certain questions. You keep in contact with certain X's. Do you though? Trust me, nigga, it's cool though. Said that you was working, but you eye taste in cool. And boot ties, chillin' poo-side, living two lives. I could've did what you did to me, to you a few times. But if I did decide a slide, find a nigga, fuck him, suck his dick. You would have been pissed. But that's not my MO. I'm not that type of bitch. And calm up for you. It's gon' be who you end up with. I adore, I gave you everything was mine, it's yours. I want you to live your life, of course. But I hope you get what you dying for. Be careful in me.

unknown 35:50

Do you know what you doin'? Who feel is that you hurtin' and bruised? You won't get the whole world, but it's it, but the girl that you lose and be careful with me.

SPEAKER_12 36:03

Yeah, it's not a threat, it's a warning. Be careful with me. Yeah, my heart is like a package with a fragile on and be careful with me. Careful me, careful me. Oh, it says it should be there for me, there for me. Oh, you better treat me carefully, carefully. Uh I was here before all of this. Guess you acting now, now you got an audience. Drop a pen, what's the cordiness? You might have a fortune, but you lose me, you still gon' be misfortunate, nigga. Tell me, this blows got you just fucked up in the head. You want some random bitch up in your back. Still even know your middle name. Watch her, cause she might do your change. You don't want someone who loves you instead. I guess that's all it's blame, disrespect. You nothing like the nigga I met. So be crazy, and you quick to forget. You even got me tippin'. You got me looking in the mirror different. Thinking I'm flawed because you ain't consistent. Between them, rockin' a hard place, the mud and the dirt is gone. Hurt me to hate you, but loving is worse. It all stops so, broke. You started switching it up. Teach me to be like you, so I cannot give a fuck. Free to mess with someone else. So once these feelings come out. Cause you don't care about a thing except your motherfucking stuff. Amen, I adore. I gave through everything was mine, it's yours. I want you to live your life, of course. But I hope you get what you dying for. Be careful with me. Do you know what you doin'?

unknown 37:40

Who's feelings that you hurtin' and bruising? You won't gain the whole world, but is it? What's the girl that you lose and be careful with me?

SPEAKER_12 37:51

Yeah, it's not a threat, it's a warning. Be careful with me. Yeah. My heart is like a package with a fragile label on and be careful with me.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

What's up, what's up, what's up, y'all? It's your girl Neo Gold. We are in the Gold Room Live in Atlanta, Georgia. Today, you are listening to Highly Unique Radio. Oh, speaking of Atlanta, shout out to my Atlanta listeners, man. Y'all turned up today. I see y'all. I see y'all. Thank you so much for tuning in and tapping in. That's so beautiful that you guys are um investing in yourselves by listening to this show. Because, like I said, this is a show for people who are ready to say yes to themselves and for those who have said yes to themselves, giving your per giving yourself permission to be able to prevail and go forward in your artistry, in your entrepreneurship, and in your life.

Ideas Are Currency Execute Them

SPEAKER_00 38:42

So today we're gonna talk about ideas being currency. Like I said before the song, um I had the pleasure of being able to go to Two Chains, uh, book signing and fireside chat this week. It was it was a great experience just being able to hear from him and hear from um hear his words talking about his book. Um it's called the The Voice Inside My Head Is God. And that was a really it it was really touching for me because he said ideas are currency. And I've seen that, you know, be said before, especially in a lot of books um that are from people who aren't a part of the Afro Indigenous culture. They talk about ideas being currency. Even in um Think and Grow Rich, there's a portion where um they talk about this man had an idea and he began to pursue the idea. He gave the idea to someone else and showed him how to execute it, and he was able to make six point three million dollars just from his mind. Literally, just from his mind. He was able to come up with an idea, allow it to flow through him and bring it into reality because the physical realm is the last realm for things to be able to enter into. So he was be he was able to culminate this thing and bring it bring it into reality and create an actual currency with something that just popped in his brain one day. That is something that you can't buy. You can't go out and be like, Oh, I I can I get your brain? No. Like, you know, can I get your idea? Yeah. Like, can I can I put you in a stink tank for you to think of something for me? Absolutely. But you can't buy real identity, you can't buy um, you know, someone else's mindset, you can't buy someone out someone else's piece. You have to be able to figure out how to cultivate your own things, right? So your ideas being your currency, every business and movement and song that's ever changed your life started as a thought in somebody's head that they chose to actually act on. But the difference between the person who built the thing and the person who said I thought of it first really is execution. Did you go out and get in the field and do the thing that you said that you wanted to do? You can say that you want to do something all day, but if you ain't doing nothing to do it, they don't matter, right? I've had and I'll say myself, I've had plenty of ideas where I'm like, man, I had this dope idea. And then I look and I see that somebody else executed that idea a couple months later, and I'm like, man, if I would have actually acted upon my idea, where would I be right now? Right. And I had to get out of that mode. I had to get out of the mode of staying stationary and really acting on the ideas that I have in my head. Because these are million dollar, billion dollar ideas. You n you never know why the universe has chosen you for a thing. And I've said in in a talk that I um did a couple weeks ago, um, a keynote that I did, that basically I was saying that when when the universe or God is calling you to do a certain thing, understand that yes, you are called, but also understand that just because you was called up to the front, if you don't move, know that your alternate is standing right behind you. They are ready. They are ready to go. I did this exercise where I I told people to stand up, you know, if they had ever been, if art has ever really changed their lives. A lot of people stood up. I said, you know, uh, stand up if art has ever changed your life. A lot of people stood up. And I seen like maybe four or five people still sitting down. I let everyone sit after that. And the conversation that I was having was, look, man, there were some people that were called to stand up but didn't stand up. And for the people who didn't stand up, when they were being told to stand up, know that you are the same person that you were literally being appointed to a certain position. God is God in the universe is calling you to do a certain thing next. Your higher self is calling you to be in a certain place next, but you keep getting put in these situations to see like if I tell them to move in this space, is they gonna really move? And then you don't move. And then you're wondering why you're still in the same position that you was in last year or last month or why other people are superseding you. It's because you're not moving when you're being called to move. Right? Now, comparison is a thief of joy, right? So I won't delve too much into, you know, oh, this is what somebody else got going on, but it's really about you. You can only compare yourself to you, right? The only person that you can be in competition with is yourself because you're the only person that knows the type of success that you that you want, right? You're also the only person that's gonna be able to harbor the idea that you have for the moment that you have it. The moment that you have the idea, someone else is gonna be given the idea in the next moment if you're not acting on it, right? So take what's being given to you and and and pursue the thing, go after the thing. And um what they be saying? Write a vision, make it plain and run with it, right? Do the thing because that thing, you never know how that thing can. Shift and change your life. You never know what you executing today is gonna do for you. The difference between wanting riches and wealth is literally the thing. Literally doing the thing. Riches are a number, wealth is a state, a state of being. It's being able to have time, freedom, legacy, and options. Riches and all that money and everything can disappear, but can't nobody take your ideas from you? Can't nobody take your mind from you. Wealth is when it's really built right and it begins to compound. When you're sitting in a state of being that is long-lasting, right? So decide whether you really want to move toward the thing, or if you're just gonna sit and stay in place and keep complaining about the things that you don't have, right? So man, that is that is that segment. Ideas are your currency. Literally. Put yourself in the room and in the spaces to be able to generate more of the currency. We talked last week about um money and we talked about money and um excuse me. We talked about money having the same language as us, right? We talked about money and water having the same language, money and water sharing the same language, being able to deposit, being able to go to a bank, being able to do these things. I have a meditation on YouTube that talks about this as well. And basically saying, like, what are you depositing into your soul vibration that you can deposit also at a bank? That ties directly into this. Your ideas are your currency. That don't mean go sell everything that comes to your mind. That doesn't mean go give away everything that comes to your mind. That means be able to sit in a state of understanding yourself and feeling able to align with the things that are for you so that you can be like, as soon as this idea steps into your vortex, as soon as this idea steps into your channel, you're able to allow it to flow in the direction that it's supposed to, and know that it's going to be aligned in its divine time, that you're not being delayed or you're not sitting in the wrong spaces or anything like that. You are exactly where you're supposed to be when you are supposed to be there. So get your mom right, man. Them ideas can take you a long fucking way, okay? A long way. Allow it to grow and understand that every idea is a seed. Every conversation that you have is soil for the seed, and every thought that you entertain is something you're either planting or pulling up. So make sure that you're tending to your garden intentionally because not everything deserves to grow. But some things do. You're listening to your girl, Neil Gold, on Highly Unique Radio. We're gonna go ahead and do a music break, and then we're gonna talk about the fact that there is money in your difference, in your uniqueness. So stay tuned.

SPEAKER_27 46:50

Listening to Highly Unique Radio.

SPEAKER_29 47:03

Get some NL, let's go ad up, toast an icebook, you'll be heavy in my mind again. You'll get the heck up. Honey west now, baby bumble, you still baby, baby, baby. I've been on my empty mind. I took a kid. I don't even know. I mean, heavy on my anti on your big reading.

SPEAKER_07 51:07

I'm scared of you, I'm scared of my stuff.

SPEAKER_19 51:56

Gotta be better than good at it. So the goal is to be bigger than everyone before. Gotta show my son and daughter, but just because they're your idols. That don't mean they won't be rivals. I'm looking at it like I was in, and I'm just tryna show my something to pass it. I got dreams bigger than life, only I can imagine. Just what my expectations and what's meant to be the high at it. That's why I rather overdo everything in a half at it.

SPEAKER_21 52:25

And I put that in the middle.

SPEAKER_27 52:26

You're listening to Highly Unique Radio.

SPEAKER_21 52:29

Only hope I have a selling note. But some of my crackers top is harder than the cellar flow. My mama told me that.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

Welcome, welcome back,

There Is Money In Difference

SPEAKER_00 52:38

y'all. It's your girl Neo Go. You're listening to the Go Room on Highly Unique Radio. Oh my goodness, the songs that just played are so close to my heart, man. Be great by Kevin. He literally snapped on that song. He said, Do you want to be great? Yes or no? Like, yes or no? Do you want to be great or not? And the reality is we already great. It's just really, are you gonna continue uncovering what it is that makes you great? Are you gonna continue showing the world even when you don't feel like you're great? Even when you're sitting in imposter syndrome or you're letting the world try to tell you who you are, are you still gonna stand and showcase who it is that you are? Right? So this segment we're gonna talk about there is money in your difference, right? In the difference of who you are. We talked about earlier that you are 99.9% made the same as everybody else. But what makes you different? What is that 0.01% that makes you different? Yeah, it might be the way that you look, it might be the way that you dance, you know, you might you might two step a little different than everybody else, but that's not exactly what I mean. I'm talking about what makes the soul difference inside of you. What what about you just makes you quirky and unique and weird? You know, I got this tat on my arm that says too weird to live and too rare to die. I got it at a time when I was like, man, I'm such a weirdo. But I also felt like I was so rare. Shout out to Panic at the disco because that's the name of one of their songs or albums or something. And I didn't find that out until until after I got the tat. Somebody just walked up to and asked me, like, you listen to Panic at the Disco. I'm like, at the time, I'm like, who? No disrespect, no disrespect to them though. But I was like, who is that? But them putting out that album and saying those words somehow ended up somewhere on a Tumblr, somewhere on Twitter, somewhere, somewhere where I was able to see it, and I'm like, man, that so deeply resonates with me. And they are so different from most artists, from other people. And if you look at your favorite artist, right, most likely your favorite artist is different from someone else, too. Right. So I wanna I wanna talk about that. What is the difference that's really making them stand out? Um today I want to pull from Jill Scott and Tyler the Creator. They had, you know, a human-to-human um 20-minute video, uh, 20-minute discussion, just you know, just chatting it up. And Tyler the Creator and Jill Scott are very, very different beings, right? And I want to step into Tyler first. We know him from Loiter Squad, we know him from Yonkers. He said, I'm a fucking walk in paradox. No, I'm not a threesome, but a fucking triceratops, a reptile. What? Like, I like I was young. Like, what did he just say? Like, what are you talking about? He's in his video and a roach is crawling on him. I'm like, sir, are you for real right now? Like, is this is this the real thing that you're doing right now? But it was. He stood in his difference, and where is he now? I mean, Grammy Award winning. Like, where is he at? You know, he stood in his difference and decided to, it don't matter what the world says. I don't care if y'all think I'm weird. I don't care if y'all don't fuck with me. It don't matter. I'm who I am. Now he's sitting in rooms with Jill Scott. Now he got songs with Pharrell. Now he's doing things that are bigger than what anyone ever thought that he could do just because he stood in his difference. He stood in what made him highly unique, right? That's why y'all tuned in, because y'all highly unique beings too. And y'all trying to figure out, hey man, how do I completely stand in this difference? How do I stand in who it is that I am to the fullness, right? So in that conversation, Tyler talks about being a fan of Jill Scott, but he also talks about how he appreciates Jill Scott's ability to be fully naked in her music, meaning completely vulnerable and honest about who she is, not holding back and and just saying, like, this is what I'm going through, this is the way you make me feel, all of that. And I I too was a uh a fan from the age of eight. You know what I'm saying? I'm I'm young listening to Jill Scott. We bopping, you know? And I'm like, man, you are truly an extraordinary woman. And I'm just jamming, living my life like it's golden, you know what I'm saying? Young and young and turn, for real, you know. And if you was raised on Jill Sky, you know exactly what I'm talking about, okay? You heard her on the radio, you know exactly what I'm talking about. But these two individuals stood in their difference so high so much that now they're able to make such impactful um differences in the world. They they talk for 20 minutes and and and it's viral online. Everybody talking about it. Everybody's like, hey man, did you hear that? Jill Scott said, you look wealthy to Tyler the Creator. You look loved, like you look taken care of and nourished, like that's the real wealth. Like I said earlier, it's how you taking care of your mind, it's the longevity of your your state of being. So when you're figuring that out, when you're tapping into what makes you different, right? You also want to be able to be able to look up and see what makes other people different, right? What thing makes them the most unique that they could be standing in, that could be making them so much money or give them so much exposure, right? And you don't want to hide that from people, you want to tell them, hey man, you're super dope. Like I can tell that you're on your own wave, and this is what makes you different. This is what makes you unique, because a lot of people need to hear that. A lot of people need to hear the thing that makes them different, right? So I know in this um in this conversation, Jill expresses a desire to spark a personal internal revolution through her work. And to me, I can say definitely that she did that for me. But that is to me, should be the goal of all artists. I did an interview um as a DJ because if you don't know, you're gonna know I'm a multidisciplinary artist. I am exploring any and all realms. I consider myself a professional creative. I DJ, I'm a painter, um, I write music, but I also sing in the shower. You know, it's a couple y'all singing in the showers too out there, but you know, I just enjoy myself and allow myself, allow my soul to express in every version and every way that I can, because I get to choose what I get to do with this avatar, not anybody else. Right. So in this DJ interview that I did, I said to be an artist is literally to be a servant, literally, because it it it ties directly along with what Jill says in creating a personal internal revolution through her work, emphasizing that the importance of loving deeply and moving past things matter, right? Like these things matter. You have to be able to move through things and be able to know that you can, right? Be and know that the things that are happening to you, just like when you in the job field, they are adding to your experience, they are your transferable skills in life and in creativity. Man, I went through this breakup, or man, I, you know, my family member died, or man, these things happened to me, right? But how are you alchemizing these things to help you be able to move forward in the uniqueness that you are, right? You were born different. You were born different than anybody else on this world in this world. You came in with a a specific fingerprint, literally no one else in this world has the same fingerprint as you, a specific voice, a specific way of seeing the world that has never existed before and will never exist again. So if you were supposed to be a copy of someone else, then you would be. Right? You might as well be might as well be a sim because someone else will be able to run your character and make your choices and live your storyline. But you are the avatar. You get to choose what it is that you want to do with this. Like standing in your difference is the greatest thing in the world that you could be doing right now. Because being disconnected from yourself is the most expensive thing that you could ever experience. People talk about, oh, this bag too expensive, or oh, uh, I don't have time to do meditation, or oh, I don't have time to take care from take care of myself. No, um, you actually need to find the time. You need to take the time regardless of whatever it is that you're going through because you don't, and that's expensive to you. Now, it if if if you could interpret energy in a monetary form, and someone told you, hey, bruh, if you don't take this time to meditate right now, it's gonna cost you $100,000 this year. I bet you take that time. I bet you would sit and meditate for them five minutes, right? Because that's a hundred G's out of your pocket. But when we don't think about it like we don't think about it like that. We're not thinking of energy as currency, but it is. There's an energetic tax. One of my friends um who will actually feature on the radio show um next weekend, Deja Ross, owner of Beats and Balads and Beats and Balance, um, she talked about the energetic tax. Like you have an energetic tax that you pay when you aren't doing the thing that you need to do to care for yourself, or or do the thing to make sure that you are feeling full in the moment. And this next portion, I'm gonna keep it real brief for y'all because we're gonna go into the next music break in a second, because we gotta get we gotta get into the other the other segments, bro. We gotta get into it, but yo.

AI Is Here So Be Irreplaceable

SPEAKER_00 1:02:04

Like I said, this is the greatest time in the world for you to be standing in your difference. Because if we're being for real, AI exists. And that shit is moving quickly and urgently. It's coming for jobs, not just one job. Y'all see them Waymo's out on the street. Stop playing. You you drive Uber and Lyft, that's finna be gone a little bit. Them taxis that we grew up on finna be gone in a little bit. That is taking of jobs, bro. Um and if I'm correct, Oracle just fired 30,000 people and replaced them with AI. Not two, not four, not a hundred, thirty thousand people and replace them with AI. Right? So, how are you standing in your difference? Because AI can't duplicate you. I mean, you can you might be able to get a uh, you know, a little picture or a little moving little body of me, but the actual characteristics that make you who you are, they cannot duplicate. The job that you have can be gone tomorrow. Literally tomorrow. Goldman Sachs estimated that AI could displace up to 300 million jobs globally. Writing, design, coding, customer service, legal research, all of that, all being automated at a scale that we've never seen. But here's what AI really can't replace you, your lived experience, your cultural lens, your relationships, your intuition, the specific way that your creativity intersects with your humanity. The people who are going to thrive in the AI world are not people that compete with it. They are the ones that are using it as an asset and are directing it. Who will use it as a tool to be able to amplify what makes them irreplaceable? The question really isn't um, you know, is AI coming? It's already here, bro. It's already here. The question is, how will you have it work for you and be an asset for you instead of replace you, instead of take away the things that you've been working so hard for? You've been working that job for five years. Next year they're gonna replace you with a bot. How does that make you feel? Real talk. This isn't a joke. I'm I'm here to give y'all real life, real conversations and let y'all know, bro, you're an artist, you're an entrepreneur, you're pursuing something in your life. Now is the time for you to go and bet on yourself 100% every single day. Now is the greatest time in human history to stand fully in who you are and lean into your difference. That's not personal development advice, bro. This is strategy, this is execution. This is this is the reality coming into fruition right now. So I know I laid it on y'all real hard, real, like real, like real. Hey man, hey man. Sometimes it's Atlanta come out, sometimes it's business women come out, and sometimes they miss. You feel me? But I'm not, I'm, hey bruh, I'm not trying to be out here uh doing business with people who know that they're gonna get replaced and are okay with that. I want you to be fully and and I want you to be full and know that your autonomy matters and know that the life that you want to create exists, but you have to stand in who you are in order for you to be able to get it. So we're gonna get into it, we're gonna get into everything. But this next segment, we're gonna talk about money talks, but so do we. Okay? Money talks, but so do we. So giving ourselves the voice and the opportunities and the strategies to be able to go forward with these things that we just talked about, so that you can stand in your difference without anything standing in the way, so that you can know how to use the assets and how to be able to move forward. This is your girl Neo Gold. You're listening to Highly Unique Radio, and this is the goal room.

SPEAKER_21 1:06:54

I'm still fucking up. Then I'm still feeling my pockets knocked. Face the list knocking it. Yeah, this be that remote feel right around with that rocket. All about the dog, nigga still, we need all that. Oh my god, eight weeks out of the mouse, don't get paid to pull up the like colour and my black Randy Little. Got a rib on you, trapping. Young money, we poppin'. I eat these rappers and be hopin'. See that be next that's polo. Real dub like o'cho, shut the tail is with no stop. You niggas chicken follow. Nigga, live on stuff. This game of diamonds mundy. Swaggin just dumb. Call it Callip Monday. Got a big house for the backyard. Bitch tank with dogs in it. Real nigga, I'm parts in it. I fuck the bitch that you stop with it. Got a bad bitch with me parts in it. Couple home is that gang bang. I get on anybody's track. And hit that bitch with that wing train. Three my nigga D eye. Two to the beehive. Got a G6 and a G5. You push the nigga, you feel line. Don't stop the party. We be getting all it. Whoa, came restorative. I went back pucks and Marlin. Cause this same old shit. Just a different dick. I just try to get it. Wait, you listen to me in the Highly Unique radio.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:59

Hey man, closed mouths don't get fed on this boulevard. Y'all heard him. Y'all heard him. Alright, you're listening to your girl, Neo Gold on High the Unique Radio. This is the goal

Money Mindset And Identity Patterns

SPEAKER_00 1:10:09

room. Hey man, I had to get a little cut throat on y'all, but it's okay. We're gonna ease. We're gonna ease it up. Just a little bit. I'm gonna come up off your neck just a little bit. Only because, you know, I I gotta give y'all some knowledge today. And I want y'all to stay tuned and tap in with me. Um I know y'all listening from everywhere right now. Um man, this segment is called Money Talks But So Do We. This portion is super exciting for me just because I um in my daytime, uh mixed creative professional job. I'm also a money therapist. I pretty much talk about how the bag is you. You are the bag. So we just talked a little bit about how like standing in your difference can really help you generate and make money. That's because the thing that makes you different is the thing that is going to help you generate, right? It's gonna it's gonna be that idea that comes to you when you're in flow state that gets you where it is that you need to go. Your bank account will reflect what you want when you get clearer on who you are. And I truly mean that literally. Research on financial behavior consistently shows that money decisions are driven more by identity than information. They are driven more by identity than information. People don't spend and earn based on just logic. They spend and earn based on what they believe that they deserve, what they believe that they are capable of, and what they believe is available to them. When I talk um to my clients, when I'm able when I'm um in front of other crowds, I like to have the conversation of saying, What was your very first experience with money? Like the very first time that you even knew that money existed. I've heard some interesting stories. I've heard a lady tell me that all her family ever gave her was gold. She was never just given a dollar or twenty dollars, she was given gold. And that trained her brain to believe in luxury and believe that these things will be handed on onto me. And so I'd like to believe that the patterns that we experienced growing up show up in our bank accounts, that um that version of yourself that when your mama told you we don't got McDonald's money, it's still hurting your bank account right now. It's still hurting you today. And I've had the pleasure of being able to to have um a Chase Branch financial manager feature at one of my events and actually and actually showcase the reality that your spiritual issues and your spiritual traumas are showing up in your bank account. Real talk. Like what you've been taught explicitly or implicitly, implicitly, is hurting you or excelling you forward. Right? If you've been taught that money is scarce and that wealth isn't for people like you, that wanting more money makes you greedy, that belief system is making financial decisions on your behalf before you even decide to do so. Before you even open your wallet, it's already made the decision. Oh, that's too expensive, or oh, I can't afford that, or oh, maybe I'm not gonna spend the money on that. Like, maybe that like these decisions have already been cultivated for you. Um I believe that we inherit a lot of things. Religion is one of them, politics is another, and money habits is a third. We and inherit a lot of things from what we've seen. But we have to take the time to be able to figure out man, how do I actually believe religiously? How do I actually believe politically? How do I actually believe when it comes to money habits and money conversations, right? Shout out to my group money conversations. But anywho, the belief system that is making you um choose these things is something that you have to actively pay attention to. You have to monitor what your bank's saying, what your what your beliefs are telling you. If you got fifty dollars to go spend on food outside, but you don't got fifty dollars to and and to buy the music equipment that you want to buy because it's 64 and all you got is fifty right now, so uh, maybe I'll get it on the next check. No, you stopping investing in yourself right now, right? How do you figure out what to do? Now that's only if you got food at home for real, okay? That's if you got food at home. That's your last 50. You need that food apron, you gotta make it happen, you gotta do what you gotta do. But for the people who have that, y'all got something at home, but you choosing to make that make that 50 turn into something that's ended, because you only spend when you ended it, right? But your investment is gonna change something, it's gonna shift something, and the highest and greatest investment is you. So this is something that that is just super deep. Money talks, but so do we. We have the same opportunity, right? Two people can read the same financial literacy book and one of them transforms their situation and the other one doesn't. Why? The information was the same. They read the same words, it was by the same author. What's the difference? The difference was their identity and how they interpreted the information, right? Who who you are. You have to recognize the parts of you that have been uh adopted. I like to think of it like this. Um, in the space of my um you have your mind and your body is a temple, right? You literally have temples in your head right now. On the side of your head, you got your two temples. But you are a temple, you are a sanctuary, you are an individual being, and think about it as if you got this house, right? And you got the couch in the house, you got the refrigerator, you got you got the lamp, the lamp your auntie gave you back in the day, the couch you got from your homeboy, you just bought this brand new refrigerator, you you can tap on it and it's gonna, you know, you can click your grocery list on this and all of that. You have to think about it like that. Your belief system is just like is is this house, right? And you have to decide that if you're gonna keep the couch that somebody gave you, or that lamp that somebody gave you, or if you're gonna throw it out and replace it with something new. You have to be the one that says when somebody knocks on your door and they're like, hey, I'm gonna give you this belief. Oh, I mean, I'm gonna give you this um this shoe rack, right? And this shoe rack is beat up, it got dust on it, you can see you can see the dirt from somebody else being on there. Like you get to choose if that gets to come in your house or if it don't. Your belief system has to be the same, especially with your money. When you know who you are and you know what you want in your house, and you know what you want in your sanctuary, you are grounded in your value, you're grounded in the vision and your right to be able to build what it is that you want. If you're given dominion or you're given um the power to be able to choose, you have to use the power that you were able to do. You have to use the dominion. You can't just say this is my house and I can do what I want in it. Yes, you can. But when somebody tries to bring something in your house that you don't want, and you don't tell them no, you're not exercising your dominion or your power. You're not standing in that thing. So you have to do the same thing with your belief systems and your boundaries and your life. The same things that you're doing with that house that, oh, can't nobody come over after 8 p.m. You got these house rules, you need some house rules for yourself, right? Money starts being something that happens to you and starts being something that comes to you directly when you are grounded in the thing that you that you are choosing, when you are actually standing in the dominion that you have and your power and your power of choice, right?

Talk About Money To Break Cycles

SPEAKER_00 1:17:43

A lot of people talk about money, you talk about it with your friends, you talk about it with your collaborators, and I'll be perfectly honest, the Afro-Indigenous community actually talks about money 30 to 40 percent less than our white peers. Crazy, right? 30 to 40 percent less. But when you think about it in conversations, when we was growing up, I I didn't hear uh what how much people was making. They was like, don't tell nobody your salary. Don't ask them how much they make. That's rude. We were taught to not have conversations around money. We were taught to not have conversations that were of value, but our peers weren't taught the same thing. They can talk about money at a at the dining room table and it don't mean nothing. Yeah, you gotta um, you know, I'm putting $100,000 in this investment. But we can't even have a conversation about, hey friend, you're making $10 an hour for the same job that I'm doing, and I'm getting paid $26 an hour. That's crazy. We should be able to have those conversations. Those conversations break barriers. Those conversations get us to the space of being where we want to be in. I know I just talked about Chat GPT, and that's cool. Oh, I talked about AI, but back in my, you know, using it uh heavily more heavily days, I asked it one question, and the question was, how long would it take for our Afro Indigenous community to actually spring forward and get to where it is that we need to go? I asked that question in terms of money. Now you might be thinking, oh, a hundred years, that's what I've heard. I've heard some people be like, oh, 10 years. I heard somebody say a thousand years, which is so crazy one time. The real answer is 243 years. But they said unless. And I'm an action-oriented person. I'm like, mm-hmm, unless that's a powerful word, right? Unless people actually start talking about it more often, unless empowerment groups are had, unless people start getting wellness around their money, things like that. That's why I started bag therapy. Um that was something, that was an initiative that was super important for me to be able to give to the Afro-Indigenous community because we don't have it. We're not talking about wealth in a holistic way, we're not having the conversation. So that's my tagline. Money talking, but so do we. You have the opportunity to choose what is for you and what you choose to step into. Break, literally break through the culture of silence around rates and earnings and ownership. Have the conversation. Because every time an artist compares notes on what they're being paid, someone gets free from a lowball fucking offer that they would have otherwise accepted. Money talks, but make sure that you're in the conversation for real. This is your girl Neo Gold. You're listening to Highly Unique Radio. We are going to tap and tune into Music and Money, which is our honorary segment. So we're gonna tap into that one right after these next two songs.

SPEAKER_24 1:20:38

Straight up. You're listening to Heidi Radio. Cash in, cash out, cash in, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash in, cash out, cash in, cash out, cash in, cash out, cash in, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, rhin in the callin' no key, straight up, quibby, true with no sleep.

SPEAKER_31 1:20:58

I got started gang nigga, I'm reppin' twin oil. I'm a getting the pitchin' on the reverend, twin. Call him new Eric captain, yeah. I put a stove, made my back can't catch him. Twenty one, I'm a sound dog, I'm texting. Ryan in the coopin' is a sport, yeah. My bodyguard look like a horse. I've got two the lock Ferrari on the tour, twin-or. I rich a mid when I get bored, or put my side pictures out of board, a porch. Wanna turn me into an asshole, I ain't gon' lie, put you being for 21. I put your nail on my seat, and where a pin mona got your nail on my seat. Put me in a third world country in the middle of the swans. I'ma turn into a million dollar street. I'm gonna made it, so it's a million dollar breakup. V12 EPS, I feel a little better. Walking your set, me raping about nothing. My invoice gon' be a million dollar free. Oh god. Hoppin' a billion slides and what? Put you my chin and you die and what? You know my method, I'ma turn you straight red, man. Dancing your ass out high on God. Mama got a bitch, she smile, turn on. She got a house, she cries, twin on. Nigga to the stand, he lie, head courtin'. Then they get his ass lie. I'm getting bigger and bigger than what? Your pocket's little than little. Turn on it. Put a hundred bands on your head, now they jumpin' up and down, playin' monkey in the middle. Swallow I'm a kid, she a bad baby sitter. Kim Trung own in my pants is a big friend of the family. I hit all the sisters. The mama loved me, so she hit all my push right up.

SPEAKER_24 1:22:16

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SPEAKER_30 1:22:31

No, I ain't heard of that. I hit the beach in the furry. Got a guy with you purin back. I'm looking like worry that nigga, get out the way. Oh, side yet. See, I'm be on a book, like swings like a ride like easy on the one with the umbrella like Rheon and nigga put me on it. Um, we on the I put the light nigga so they put me on it. You don't be on be on it, I put it. I still wipe off me to be on it. Look, no, no, no, no, let's just fix it. Go to watch it in it, put a point in it. Stay full of them right by it. Oh, I got the point on the back door. What you wanna do? Me, I don't like to do. I go in the right, and you gonna punch you. Me and my bitch gun starts. And if you wanna flip them, I don't want to be open, bitch on you. I'm gonna headline, you a plus one. I got some break don't for my bitch boots, and I got like stuff. Oof.

unknown 1:23:52

Oof.

SPEAKER_24 1:23:52

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SPEAKER_05 1:23:56

And this feels a daffodil's cat. Walked in the apple with crack screens and told prophetic stories of freedom. Found warp than a black queen for when I get cold like that king. I'm doing the dead thing. I speak of wondrous, unfamiliar lessons from childhood. Make you remember how to smile good. I'm pre-currency, post-language, anti-label, profamous, I'm broadway, Joe Namus. Best prodigy. Yay, some ebody proud of me. I got some ideas that you gotta see. Make a video shorty and they ship it like the Odyssey. They never seen a rapper practice modey. I never practice, I only perform. I don't even want to, I don't even move. I won't be before. I speak to God in public. I speak to God in public. You give my rapists. I think the boost. I think the beautiful face. I used to dance the microphone. I used to dance in high school. I used to pass a music. I used to pass a music. I must be everything the people can be. I'm being icy fussy. I was for this people baby. I must have come up. I must be a candy. I'm the best of my faster. I have to pass the scambies.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:06

Oh man. Such beautiful songs to go ahead and get into uh fully and totally. We listened, we talked about Tyler Creator earlier, standing in his uniqueness. And also, we just heard Chance the Rapper, which you'll hear more about him in this segment that we're talking about now.

Music Industry Money And Ownership

SPEAKER_00 1:26:22

Um But this segment is called Music and Money. We gotta get in it, we gotta get into talking about music and money together in the same conversations because you often hear people talk about the music. They talk about the artistry, they talk about all of that, but they're not talking about what's the dollar behind it. I need to know about the dollar behind it because that's what's gonna turn to determine if I'm moving or not, or moving in your direction or not, right? So let's talk about the music industry specifically because the gap between what this industry generates and what artists actually see is one of the most well-documented wealth transfers in modern history. Okay? The global music industry was a w was the global music industry was worth over $28 billion in 2023 alone. Streaming alone generated over $19 billion. And yet the majority of working musicians, the ones that I are actually building and making this culture, are living below what most people would consider a sustainable income. Y'all see that all the time, especially online. Um I seen Homeboy talked about um uh he he helped write this song that everybody was listening to, and bro was working at at like McDonald's or Burger King or something like that. But he wrote this song and everybody making money off the music except for him. Why is that? Why? For real? It's because of ownership or the lack of it. For real. Well, you don't own your masters, or you don't you don't own these things. You're owning only the memory of you making the music, but somebody else is owning the asset. Well, you don't understand that the publishing splits or the three sixty deals or Or samples or anything like that, then you leaving money on the table. When you sign a 360 deal without legal consent, you've handed somebody else a percentage of your touring, your merch, your endorsements, and your life for real. But the landscape, I mean, it's shifted. But the conversation about history still has to be had. The things that have happened still have to has to be talked about because if we don't talk about the history, then it's just gonna repeat itself. It's just gonna keep going. We've seen this multiple times in the music industry. Even back in the 80s and 90s. Bro, we we've seen all of that. And they make these documentaries about how so-and-so didn't own their music or so-and-so didn't do this certain thing and wasn't able to go forward with the thing, right? Even um Cisco, y'all know that song, Thong, Thong, Thong, Thong. That song, that song was a hit. He got uh a violinist from Star Wars to even feature on that song. He snapped on that song. That that that beat was actually originally made for Michael Jackson, but it didn't get to Michael Jackson until after it was on the thong song, which is funny. But this man went hard on this song, introduced thongs to the world, and then because he said living La Vita Loca, one thing, he said this one thing that ended up losing him so much money. He had to pay them people so much money because he said these few words, and somebody on the back end didn't do their job in figuring out the copywriting or or the trademarking or whatever was on the back end of it. Just because this one person didn't do their job, so many people lost so much money because they didn't do their research on it, they lost so much money. You gotta do your research, like your music or your artistry, your painting, whatever it is, is your gift. But you don't get a gift from somebody and then just go sit it in the middle of the road. You gotta protect that gift. You don't just be like, oh, I'm gonna let my two-year-old cousin play with this gift that I just got, and I it's only been out the package five minutes. You ain't got no type of protection on it. You're not watching them, you're not making, you're not, you're not doing nothing with it. But this was a gift that was given to you. You have to know what to do with your gifts and be able to be able to steward them well, right? So when we're talking about these things, to me, I'm thinking about these artists that have done something with their gifts and protected it as well. Artists like Chancellor Rapper, who we just heard, proved that you could be um a superstar. You could have a massive career without a label and keep everything. Taylor Swift talked about um mastering and your ownership, and that changed how that that changed how so many people thought about their own catalogs. Kendrick Lamar owns his own publishing. Rihanna built a billion-dollar empire by understanding that her brand her brand was the asset. Now, I don't know too much about you know if her her music was fully owned by her, but we see what she was able to build with a brand. So even if you do take the deal, and you still have to be mindful. You still have to know what I am getting myself into. How could I get myself out of this if I'm doing this thing? You have to think forward and be able to step your feet into a place that you know is safety. You don't step on a on a landmine and then be like, oh what do I do now? Like, you gotta, if you're gonna go on a mission, you better go ahead and scope the landscape first. You better go ahead and know what you're finna step into before you step into it. That's why, you know, with real estate, they give you the maps. They tell you these are the specs of the building, these are the specs of the land. You gotta do the same thing when you're going to pursue a career in a certain industry. That's why they always tell you to get a mentor. We're talking music and we talking money, right? So in these spaces, you have to understand that the blueprint already exists. You've seen so many people fail, so many people make mistakes, right? Learn from their mistakes. Don't be the same person making the same mistake over and over again. Music is something that's huge. That that in within itself carries a certain frequency and vibration. That within itself is a currency of itself, right? Music literally affects our mood, decision making, our energy levels, all of that. That's why certain stores play certain songs. If you ever walk into a retail store, they're not playing sad music. They're playing high upbeat music that makes you sing along. Why? Because they want you to dance around a store. They want you to dance, they want you to stay there. Oh, they're playing my gym. Oh, I'm gonna stay and I'm gonna listen to the end of this song. Oh, this nice perfume over there. That's what they want from you, right? That's why your gym plays high BPM music so that you can be at a high frequency, right? But when you're sad, when you're sad and you hear sad songs, that's why it makes you sadder, right? That's why they say don't play that old school music when you're going through it, okay? Because you're gonna keep going through it. If you're listening to them that, you know, that broken hearted music and you brokenhearted, you're gonna keep feeling brokenhearted, right? You can't listen to I'm broke on repeat and then expect abundance to pop in your life. That's not how things work. We retain memory through our subconscious minds and our conscious minds, right? So if we're continuously listening to a certain thing, that thing is low-key hypnotizing us, right? That's why for me, I go and I listen to audios. I'm gonna listen to Eric Thomas, I'm gonna listen to Bob Proctor, I'm gonna listen to Zig Ziggler, I'ma listen to the people who have studied the subconscious mind. I'm going to go and listen to them because I want to know more about mine. I want to know more about what's going on in my body, in my energetic field, what's going on in my mind, even when I don't know it. Most people don't even take the time to even understand that you have an energetic body as well, and you need to pay attention to that too. That's that feeling that you get when you finna sign a contract and you're like, I probably shouldn't sign that, or ooh, I should tell them that this part, mm-hmm, I you know, that's that conversation that you that that thing that's leading you, that's your intuition. That's from your energetic body trying to tell you, hey, bro, I think you should tweak this because I'm just kind of feeling that this might this might not be the right thing for you. Right? Or you might need to tweak it just a little bit, and that's gonna be in alignment for you. Right? You have to figure out what is in alignment for you when you're talking about your music, when you're talking about your money. Because at the end of the day, once you sign a deal, everybody going home. And if they if they if the person that got you to sign the deal know that they're making this money off you and you ain't gonna make no more, then and they sleep happy at night, that's cool. But you gonna be the one in the mirror with yourself. You gonna be the one crying in your bed, like I shouldn't have signed that deal, I should have done it. You gonna be woo-wooing, okay? You you gonna be like woo-woo, and that's your fault, right? How do we get in front of it? We get in front of it by paying attention to our music, paying attention to our money, paying attention to our frequencies, right? You have to curate your sound just the way that you're curating your future, and vice versa, curate your future the same way that you're curating your sound. It's specific, it ain't meant for everybody, right? So you have to be able to listen to your intuition to know this ain't for everybody, and I'm cool with that, right? So, this is your host, Neil Gold. You're listening to Highly Unique Radio, and this is the goal room. Uh, next segment we're gonna talk about defining yourself and what that really means and how to do it. All right. So stab in, tap in, stay tuned.

SPEAKER_27 1:35:30

Here go the jams to highly unique radio.

SPEAKER_15 1:35:34

Woof, whack, black. Woof, woof, whack, oh, wheat, woof, woof, whack, tell him, woof, woof, woof, whack, we'll be able to get it.

SPEAKER_14 1:35:44

You wanna be better out of here, you're welcome to go back, but you can't do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:49

Falling, literally. Okay, well, welcome back to the goal room.

Defining Yourself With Consistency

SPEAKER_00 1:40:53

This is your girl and Neo Gold. You are tuned and tapped into Highly Unique Radio. Uh, today we are in the goal room, which is a space for people who have said yes to themselves and people who want to say yes to themselves and just need permission to go, right? This is your permission. Go execute today. Go ahead and step fully and totally into who you are and the uniqueness that you are and your difference, right? So we talked about so many things today. Um, starting from I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my shit, and from Erica Badu, and going into Eddie Murphy saying that the sensitive people are actually the best artists because they are the most in tune. We've talked about how to fully stand in yourself and that, hey man, the changes are coming. So if you stand in yourself today, what that's gonna do for you, right? So, how do we define ourselves? How do we refine ourselves, right? First things first is that people follow the people who know who they are. Why? It's because most people don't know who they are. They're typically copying other people or just you know, bullshitting for real. So when somebody actually steps into into the room and they show up with confidence or clarity, or um you can just feel in their energy that that the type of person that they are, right? It's magnetic. It's something that makes you really just automatically feel attracted. You know, you're pulled into their energy because they're actually not trying to show up and be perfect or show up in this type of way. They're just showing up in the room with a version of the of themselves that they've spent time curating and cultivating and spent time in the room with themselves, maybe talking to themselves, maybe journaling, maybe in the gym, maybe looking in the mirror, saying affirmations, you know, having that time in the car where you yelling at yourself and you telling yourself, hey bruh, you gotta get your shit together right now. Like those those are the people that are standing in the rooms that we're like, man, this person is so dope, this person is so cool, and it's because they're standing in who they are. So you have to do the same thing, not try and become different, but discover what already makes you different and being confident in it, but not confident in how loud it can be, but in the consistency that you are consistently putting your reps in. Let people talk, let people watch you, but you have to stay focused, you have to keep your eye on the prize because there will be so much chaos that tries to deter you from where you are or tries to put you in another space. But you have to, just like when you're driving, you gotta look straight, you gotta look forward, you can notice what's happening on the side of you, behind you, and on the other side, right? You can look in the mirror, rear view mirror, but also know that if you look in the rear view mirror too long, you're not gonna see what's right ahead of you. That might cause a wreck right there, right? So, how do we define ourselves for real? It's by staying focused, it's by putting our reps in and knowing that confusion really is contagious. Like it it it takes just one second. Y'all need to do some energetic social distancing, okay, for real. Like, not just being around people who are uh are carrying energies that you don't want to carry. Because ain't nobody got time for that. For real. Nobody got time for that, bro. People follow people who know who they are for real. Most of the world don't even know who they are. Most of the world is looking at somebody else to try to tell them who they are. But you have to be able to be the person that with if there was nothing today, if there was no social media, if there was no technology, if there was nothing but you in a room, what is it that you are gonna be able to tell yourself that pulls you out of bed, that that makes you go outside and go play in a lawn because you want to play in a lawn, because if it's in the world, whatever. What's the thing? Right? You have to find that within within yourself and be able to nurture it and nurture the thing until it's full of life. We talked about earlier that ideas are seeds. That means that if your idea is a seed and the conversations that you have are your soil, that means that you have a garden that you have to continuously and consistently tend to. You have to know, oh, these weeds coming up, I gotta go pull these weeds. That might be a hater, that might be uh, you know, uh that might be your your social media post didn't hit the way you thought it was gonna hit. It might be a couple things. But guess what? You pull them weeds up and your garden gonna keep going. That's exactly what's gonna keep happening. You see some pests in your garden, you use that pest control and you move forward. You don't just you don't be like I'm gonna burn the whole garden down just because uh I don't like it. Or it this this tulip ain't growing in the direction that I want it to grow in, so I'm gonna burn it down. What? No. You find okay, this isn't growing how I want it to grow. Okay, how can I let me go read this book? Um, that might help me. Or I've seen them use the little sticks that help things. You know, you tie it around the side and it's gonna help it grow up. But that's exactly what you have to do with yourself, with your ideas, with your business, with the with your passions, with all the things that you really want to see come into fruition, right? Think about people that you're drawn to. These people have presence. They walk into a room and something completely shifts when they step into the room. That person is you too. That person is also you. But you have to refine yourself in order for it to be uh as radiant as you want it to be with diamonds, they're gonna shine. But if if they got a little smudge on them, they ain't gonna shine the same, right? So you gotta wipe that shit off and allow it to be able to shine the way that it's supposed to. People gonna talk, that's guaranteed. The moment you start standing in your identity with confidence, someone's gonna have a problem with it. And so what? Let them let other people listen to them, let them talk. That's not your department, okay? That's not the area that you're working in. Your department is being focused, your department is moving forward, your department is forward motion. So here's what I want you to stop doing stop trying to manufacture your own uniqueness, stop trying to construct a persona that seems interesting or different or marketable. That's exhausting and it's not sustainable. It's not something that's gonna be able to last forever. People feel the performance. Instead, go get in the mirror, go look at yourself and ask yourself, what have I been minimizing? What part of my story or my background or my perspective have I been shrinking because I wasn't sure that the world that the world was ready for it? The world has always been ready for the real shit. It's the imitations that that we've gotten used to. It's that microwave mentality we've gotten used to. But how do we change that? Get back to grandma's old cooking, you know what I'm saying? Shit, marinating in the oven. You know what I mean? You got the you got the chicken that you dip in the buttermilk and you let it sit in the in the fridge for two days for a day before you even start cooking it, right? You have to do the same thing with yourself, and I can I can guarantee that you know the difference between your grandmama cooking and um them hungry man meals that you can buy in the frozen section. I can guarantee you know the difference. People also know the difference in you. So you have to refine and define yourself and be able to withstand the storm by being consistent. Consistent, right? So we're gonna delve into this last song, okay, and then we're gonna head and close up with our last segment. Stay tuned. This is your girl Neo Gold on Highly Unique Radio. You're listening to go, right?

SPEAKER_11 1:48:37

Baby. One thing that I found out gang to have one woman gotta have three. One woman just a woman. One woman just to piss me up. And I gotta leave have one woman on the side. I'm gonna find out. One woman just gold and die. One woman, just to give me a gotta leave out one woman on the side, you really don't give a foot. Go ahead and walk out the top. One thing that you got a room. One bucket on the top. If you wanna go baby, go ahead and walk out the top. One thing that you got a room. One bucket on the stove. I have gotten. I might just go call keys and go in my body on. See, I know if I ever get hungry, I don't want something good to eat. I can pick up my phone and call T T, she'll pick something nice and sweet. If you wanna leave. Go ahead and leave, baby. One thing that I found out. I can't have a one woman, gotta have three. One woman just don't woman up. One woman just to lift me up. And I gotta at least have one woman on the side. You really don't give a fuck. If you wanna leave, baby. Go ahead and leave, yeah. One thing that I found up. Can't have one woman, gotta have three. One woman just don't woman up. One woman just to lift me up. And I gotta at least have one woman on the side. You really don't give a fuck. If you wanna go, baby. Go ahead and walk out of the door. One thing that you gotta rip. If you wanna go, baby. Go ahead and walk out of the door. One thing that you gotta remove. This one monkey don't stop no show. This train gon' keep on rolling. Oh yeah, this thing our life's gon' keep on going. Oh yeah. This train gon' keep on rolling.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:28

Woo! Welcome, welcome back. This train gon' keep on rolling. Y'all heard exactly what he said. One monkey don't stop no show, okay? Don't be let don't let nobody uh have no say-so over your life, okay? But you. Alright, you're listening to Neo Gold on Highly Unique Radio. This is the Gold Room, and we are coming to an end for this week. So we are back again next Saturday, 12 to 2 p.m. And we have a live featured guest in. But I want to leave y'all with something super impactful

Choose Your Hard And Commit

SPEAKER_00 1:51:58

today. Um the first, well, really, the main thing, this is the thing right now, okay? I need y'all to uh listen a little closer, okay? What they said in school, put your listening ears on. Okay? Everything is hard. Alright? Everything. Everything is hard. The question is how to not how to avoid it for real. Like, it's really which heart are you choosing? What heart do you want? Because being broke is hard. But building wealth is hard too. You have to choose what it is that you want. Like, you can't say, oh, this is the life that I want to live. This is what I want. I want to do this, I want da da da da da. But then some hard stuff comes in the way, and you like, mm, I don't want to do it at all anymore. I don't want to build this career. I don't want to do I'm gonna completely stop what I'm doing. Nah, bruh. Nah, bruh. You gotta pick your heart. You gotta say, hey man, actually this event thing didn't work out. So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm actually gonna find a different pipeline so that I can be able to to be able to move people to this event, right? Or, oh, I went and I was trying to make some money and I couldn't make money in that room, but okay, I do artists in this room, now the money gonna come from this area, or I'm gonna figure out how to use the things. You have to choose what your heart is, man. You can't just you can't just sit in uh agony about the situation, man. You have to sit there and be like, I'm gonna choose different. Pitching in a room is hard, right? But also choosing to work as a server and pour pitches of of water is hard too, bruh. You gotta work for them too, or you're gonna have to work for somebody to say yes to you. Which one are you gonna choose, bruh? Living stacked in a situation doesn't serve you, okay? It doesn't serve you. Doing the work to get out of it is hard too. So when you decide, mm, I might wake up an hour earlier to work on my goals while the house is quiet, that's hard. But you chose to do it and you're doing the thing, and eventually it ain't gonna be too hard no more. Spending years working overtime building somebody else's dream is hard. But you did it. You do it, they pay you uh ten dollars an hour, twenty dollars an hour to build somebody else's dream and somebody else's company, and you be like, mm, I gotta do it because I gotta pay my bills. And you complain about it being hard, you complain about how much it hurts you, how much it hinders you, but that is the hard that you chose. You have to choose wisely. And guess what? The universe loves decisions, not wishes, not maybes, but decisions. I am decisively choosing to do this thing, and I'm gonna go forward in it. The moment that you commit to your choice and you make a real and committed choice, it's not I'll try. It becomes I will. Something shifts. The doors literally that were invisible become visible to you. The doors that were locked become open again, right? So people show up, resources align, and that's not just magic. That's what happens when your energy becomes coherent and focused in one direction. Your dominant vibration defines your destination. What you think about most, what you talk about most, what you spend your emotional energy on the most is the frequency that you're broadcasting. It's the it's it's your most dominant vibration, and life responds to frequency. So choose your heart and make your decision and then commit to it like your life depends on it. Because the life that you actually want, it does. You're listening to the gold room only on highly unique radio. This is your host, Neo Gold. Catch me next week, 12 to 2 p.m. We're gonna be live in the building. Amen, and we investing in you to highly unique radio.

SPEAKER_13 1:55:43

Holy shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_27 1:55:50

You're listening to Highly Unique Radio.

SPEAKER_13 1:55:53

J Gold all in my train. Gold on the my wife. Don't believe me, they watch, nigga, nigga, nigga. Don't believe me, they're watching. Don't believe me, they're watching, nigga, nigga. Don't believe me, they're watching. Don't believe me, they're watching. Gold on the my train. Go on to my right. Gold on to my wife. Don't believe it, they're watching. This ain't for no fuck, nigga. You a real nigga, then fuck with us. This one's for the hood, nigga. It's the bitches that chop the lick. Dark skinned, light-skinned, aged in and white women. Fight the beats, we know about you. Don't buy the shoes, unless the popper for the hold. My niggas, that's put the pocket, that match a fit, that's called. My niggas, that call match that shit. Wait, fuckin' me, my nickel, that don't pass that shit. This one for my nickel. That bitch about that money, that's out. Got a law, just the bridge, them bad hoes that I don't fuck with no snatches. So don't tell me who fell. This one for them colleges. Them bad holes that spell. Them fresh on Instagram straight flat. Park the mile, I'm sweat. Park a mile, I'm sweat. Mama always told me, Oh, I count your back. I trust, so I kept counting them fight. You know this, let me give your answer back to lift up one goal, watch, two, go, fight, fit, go, right, it's not got IOT join, dumb I stop, no start, all I'm stuck, okay, okay. Oh hangin' on you this time, fuck dump shit behind your back, but won't take shit in the fuck Go on the my train. Go on to my right, go on to my watch. Don't believe it, they watch, nigga, nigga, nigga, don't believe it, they watch. Don't believe me, they watch, nigga, nigga, nigga, don't believe me, they watch. Don't believe me, they watch. Go on to my train. Go on to my right. Go on to my watch.

SPEAKER_27 1:58:30

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