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70% of Homes Are Hiding a Silent Addiction – The Prison Doctor
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In this episode, Shawn Lynch sits down with Myron Fountaine, the Prison Doctor, to expose why so many troubled youth are slipping toward gangs, violence, and prison, and what every parent can do about it right now. This conversation matters because the warning signs are showing up earlier than ever, and most families never see them until it feels too late.
Myron walks through what he witnesses inside real homes every single day, from fatherless homes and a complete absence of discipline to children being raised by phones, drill rap music, and hours of social media. He breaks down the difference between abuse and healthy discipline, why structure and attention transform behavior almost overnight, and how generational trauma passes from parent to child when no one steps in to stop it. Drawing on his own story of being sentenced to 25 to 50 years at age 19 for armed robbery, the founder of Prison Doc Inc. shares the mindset shift that turned his life around and the exact things parents can try before a situation becomes dangerous.
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What if the biggest reason that kids are struggling today is not social media?
SPEAKER_01They're being robbed of their childhood. They're not socializing. They're not outside playing in the dirt.
SPEAKER_00It's something happening inside the home that almost no one wants to talk about.
SPEAKER_01The disgusting thing that I'm watching our children do today is throw away their lives and it breaks my heart.
SPEAKER_00My guest today has spent years working with troubled kids and their families.
SPEAKER_01Can you imagine hearing the judge tell you that you just get affected to more years in prison than you are alive in life?
SPEAKER_00And what he shared on this podcast completely changed how I think about parenting.
SPEAKER_01You've lied to them about multiple things and they remember every single one of them.
SPEAKER_00He told me the first warning sign that almost every single parent overlooked.
SPEAKER_01Who is raising that child or those children? The question is, if the parent isn't doing it, who's doing it? More than likely, it's the streets.
SPEAKER_00So, Myron, we had you on a previous podcast, but for the people that didn't get to hear that podcast, which by the way, if you didn't, you need to go back and listen to it, super powerful. How did you get started being the prison doctor? Just high level short story, and then we'll get into a lot of the problems with a lot of the youth today.
SPEAKER_01Sure. So uh thank you, Sean, for having me on. Um I became the prison doctor because I saw how our communities was being decimated. Um, I saw our children being badly neglected. Um I noticed that there were more fatherless homes in the communities, and I saw how um our society were was just really um not helping our children, and you know, as far as community and things like that. Our children were really suffering, being murdered on the streets daily. Um, and I didn't see enough, you know, enough being done to stop it. So I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. And so I started a 501c3 called Prison Doc Inc. Um, and started going into homes free of charge, not charging a dime, and just helping children from, you know, gangs and uh drugs and you know things like that, and it kind of took a life of its own after a short time, and um that's what gave birth to the prison doctor.
SPEAKER_00Whenever you first started doing it for free, how did people how did how'd they find out about you? Was it just local advertisement or was it always social media?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, actually it was it was very little social media, it was more boots on the ground. Um I would, you know, go knock on people's doors in uh in a hood, so to speak, you know, in Detroit. And I was knocking on doors and and just kind of letting people know that, hey, you know, I'm a mentor. If you have a child that is struggling or in need of help, um, please give me a call and I would give them my number. Um it graduated to me getting flyers, literally going to uh Home Depot or Office Depot and spending a few hundred dollars, you know, and get a lot of business cards printed up, you know, with just some basic information, you know, who I am and what I do and what service I was offering. And I literally would get maybe like 500 brochures and flyers, and I'm illegally passing them out on windshields at Walmarts and or Walmart and Walgreens and and grocery stores, just putting flyers on people's windshields uh at the at the grocery store. Um and also just just networking, meeting people and just you know talking. Uh I'm a pretty good communicator. I love people, so um, it was very easy for me to kind of just build this brand through just doing it boots on the ground. And that's how I was marketing uh to now we we do it on social media though.
SPEAKER_00Whenever whenever you first started helping all the troubled youth, what do you think causes them to what's the main cause that you think it starts they start acting out or they start, you know, presenting a ton of bad behavior? You know, what what do you think is really going on with that kid? Where does it start?
SPEAKER_01I think, well, as would even with the adults, uh uh lack of knowledge of self. Um I I strongly believe that um a lot of our kids are living very um aimless lives. They don't really know who they are, right? So they're in search of identity. Um and I think because of not knowing who they are, is that our kids are are constantly every day shifting, trying to find some form of individuality or just to discover, you know, life. They're growing up, you know what I mean? So that's why it's so easy to influence a child through music, through um, you know, television and you know, um different associations of people, um, because our kids are literally looking for identity. Yeah. Sponge. Yeah, they're exactly you know, so that, and unfortunately in our society today, a lot of the the um influencers, a lot of the music is negative. So our children are being somewhat, you know, groomed, you know, into negativity, right? Because there's it is a different day and time from when we grew up. You know, there were literally people we could, you know, gravitate to as role models. There were people we could look up to in our community, there were certain neighbors we could look up to. Um, in our time, the uh reality is, if we're being honest, is that we don't live in those times anymore. And today is a more is a more nastier world, quite frankly, than what it was in the past. And our children don't have good role models, they don't have leaders today that really stand up for what you know righteousness is. Uh, and that's the truth. You know, that's the raw truth. Our kids are badly influenced by social media, the music. Um, if you go on social media and look on Instagram or TikTok, you know, you see a very a lot of just bad information, uh, a lot of bad imagery. Um, you see a lot of fakeness, you know. Um, so I think that's that's a big problem.
SPEAKER_00You think they're growing up a lot faster, you know, being exposed to all these things on social media or YouTube or all these shorts that are out there?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely. There's there's no doubt, no doubt about it. I do house calls pretty much every day. And these kids are spending hours upon hours on social media.
SPEAKER_00I think that's a problem. You know, I do think there's a lot of you know good as you get older with social media because you know, you have access to information. But when you're a kid, I noticed some things with my son early on, he was a very late talker, and you know, of course, you know, we get busy and we were giving him the iPad very young. And once he did start talking, he was watching a lot of weird stuff. I mean, because you can't monitor it the whole time. Sure. And definitely, you know, I saw that it affected his behavior and his attention span. And then the minute I pulled it away, which you know was the best thing I ever did. Yeah, absolutely. And then his attention span pretty much fixed overnight, and he started being receptive to all the stuff that I was that I was teaching him. But man, he was whenever I we would give him that, you know, for the time he wasn't talking, I just didn't realize he was soaking up so much information because he wasn't saying anything. Sure. But man, when he started talking, he soaked up all that information. Yeah, which and a lot of it was pretty negative, and you can't really control what you know, they're just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling on there. Sure. So that won't never happen again with my other children. You know, I it was my first child and didn't really understand how how much of influence it had over them. Yeah, and so I do see other people that I know, and you know, their kids sit on the phone, you know, most of the time that you know that they're around. I definitely think that's a bad thing because it it's they're getting raised by the phone or by what they're seeing online is is probably a big problem, but you know, definitely always leads with the parents, right?
SPEAKER_01It is it is sad, Sean. Uh you know, you and I have talked before, and you know, I'm very candid with you. Um it is heartbreaking what I see happening to our children. It is hard because it's it's it's a setup, you know, it's and a lot of it is by design. Um our children are spending, are wasting eight hours a day on social media on phones. So they're not spending enough time growing up as kids. They're being robbed of their childhood because they're so addicted to these phones and social media and video games. Sean, that is a that is a news story that should go worldwide. Our children are not growing up as they're being robbed of their childhood. They're not socializing, they're not outside playing in the dirt, they're not spending time with their families going to church on Sunday or Bible school on Wednesday. They're not cooking and watching mama and grandma and daddy in the home together doing family-oriented things. They're not going on vacations together like we did, where mommy at least could afford to go on vacation once a year to somewhere that was special where it was a family-oriented event. They're not doing that today. You know why? Because they don't even want to go. They'd rather be at home on Xbox and Call of Duty and Fortnite, spending most of their time on a freaking game system as opposed to spending time with their families. That is a travesty, and no one is blinking an eye to that stuff. These children are literally being robbed, Sean, of their childhood. That is that is the most disgusting thing that I'm watching our children do today is throw away their lives. And it breaks my heart.
SPEAKER_00Do you think when a family has trauma that that can get passed down, passed down to the children?
SPEAKER_01No doubt about it. Generational traumas, general generational curses. Absolutely. Um, and a lot of it is passed down. Uh, and it's like um our children are are just stuck in a, you know, a vortex that they can't get out of because the parents aren't helping them get out of it. You know, our children, children are only, they're only good as their parents. They only they're only good as the adults who are raising them. You know, the environment that they're in.
SPEAKER_00That's a reality. Do you see on, you know, everywhere you go, does a neighborhood have a big impact on on their behavior or how they're growing up?
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. No doubt about it. Um sometimes, you know, there's always an exception to the rule, right? And anything in business and in life, there's always exceptions to the rule, right? Even in your business. However, um, there is exceptions to the rule where environment does not, you know, children can break free of that and become very successful. Hell, I'm one of them, you know, to a degree. You know, you are as well. I know a little bit about your story, you know, but in most cases, children are products of their environment. They are products of their environment. If all they see is gang activity, if all they see is shooting and death, if all they're hearing is things that are degrading women, uh, that is putting uh uh materialism at at a higher value than their own human life, then then it's not a mystery of why they would grow up that way.
SPEAKER_00What age do you see kids usually start going down the wrong path?
SPEAKER_01Generally, I I I can almost put a a sticker on it, right? At the age of like 12, right? When they're five, six, seven-year-olds, because I get phone calls from parents literally calling me for five-year-old children to come help because the child is so out of control, they don't know what to do, right? Oftentimes I'll either hang up the phone, right? You know, uh, because you should be able to manage a five-year-old. You should have enough parental common sense to deal with a five-year-old, right? However, when they get, when they get to that age of, you know, seven, eight, nine years, because they're getting more information, right? They're becoming bigger, taller, they're learning more about how to use the law, you know, against their parents, which is what they're doing today. They're weaponizing CPS against their parents. So at that age where they're becoming, you know, more intelligent, more informed, that age is around seven, eight, nine, ten and up. At five and six, I'm I'm I'm leery, right? When a parent calls me for help with a five or six-year-old child. You should not be calling anybody for help at that age.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's no discipline at all in the household, right? If you're if your five-year-old is acting out like that.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. Why would you have a five-year-old acting out uh, you know, at that age? It does make sense.
SPEAKER_00I've seen some videos of yours where when you go into the home, like the only thing there is like food and chips. You think the you think the food and sugar and like just drinking sodas and only like bad nutrition, you think that has some probably some impact on like a five, six-year-old, seven-year-old?
SPEAKER_01No. I don't I don't think it I know it. Yeah. That is a fact. It's a biological fact, scientific fact, a medical fact, that um what you eat affects your behavior. Yeah, right. You know, and um that that that's why I'm so hard on the fact that this stuff is by design, right? Because it doesn't, it's not rocket science to know that if your kid is drinking pop, uh drinking a can of sugar every day and eating uh candy all day long. All day long. I I don't think it's a hard, you know, f axe to say, hey, well, you know, this is probably what's going wrong with your child.
SPEAKER_00Contributing to the problem.
SPEAKER_01Contributing to the problem.
SPEAKER_00And then the and then that along with, of course, a lack of discipline is probably the main thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I always wonder why people were nervous or scared to discipline their kids, especially especially that young. I mean, i if you let them do whatever they want, that's what they're gonna end up doing. Absolutely. I mean, you gotta have some sort of discipline, and you can do it without without being mean. I g I I'm trying to figure out like why people won't they don't believe in discipline at all. Like that doesn't make any sense to me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I think what is happening is as far as the the discipline thing, I think the um the gentle parenting um has really taken over where um for some reason our parents parents think that it's wrong to hit your child, right? They see that as violence, right? It's like why would you you know hit your child? That's violent. I don't want my child to to learn how to hit or to you know regulate their emotions by physically, you know, striking them. Well, that's true to an to a sense, that's true, right? We're not talking about abuse, right? We're not talking about where you're scarring your child or putting marks on your child. We're talking about where if your child is doing something that is so out of control that sometimes a little sting on the hand, right, can can can register that child to rethink their behavior, right? And stop that action. Um, but you have to know how to meet, you know, discipline the right way with the consequence, right? It has to equal, right?
SPEAKER_00My parents I got whipped a lot. But I mean, I didn't, it just seemed normal. And it wasn't like they did it all the time. But if you did something crazy, like you you're like, they're coming. They're coming. You're coming with the the small belt.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And and and and that stops the action, right? Because you don't want to experience that level of pain or or anger from your mom or dad, right?
SPEAKER_00You you know they're gonna you know they're gonna do something about it if you act out.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. There's a consequence for that action, right? So, you know, and and listen, I don't I don't try to argue with the Bible, right? The Bible tells you spare the rod, spoil the child. So there's there's something about that rod. Now you can say what you want to, you can say you're not religious, you don't believe in God, that's fine, right? There's something about that rod. There's something about when you discipline a child physically, that that child becomes more conscious or cognitive that what they did, they should not do again, right? Sometimes you can talk to a child, right, and it works just as well. Sometimes a child can do certain things, certain, you know, behaviors they they do, right, where you can just, you know, reprimand your child. You can talk to them in a very, you know, monotone way and and and they get it, right? However, there are some things, Sean, that children do that needs a little more of an impact, right? That's just reality.
SPEAKER_00I also think that if you were only doing that all the time, like you said, it it it turns into abuse. But like my parents were great parents. Yeah. And, you know, I had a great childhood and they always encouraged me and gave me a bunch of confidence. So it it, you know, that wasn't a a a normal occurrence, but if I know if I did something really bad or stupid, you know, it could happen. Yeah. And so I think that, you know, I think if you do give them a lot of encouragement, I do think if you give them confidence. Sure. If you whip them because they did something absolutely crazy, yeah, it it's it's fine. It's not that's not, I mean, that's how everybody grew up. That's how pretty much everybody, you know, my age, that's how all their parents, that's it was it was normal.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. There's a there's a time for everything, right? There's a time when you can be gentle with your child, you know, and you can talk to them in a certain kind of manner. Um, but then there's a time where sometimes you have to meet a child, you know, uh, on that level, on that level where they may need a little spanking. And there's nothing wrong with that. Listen, people that got spanked back in our day turned out just fine for the most part. They are. You know what I mean? Yeah. Um, being destroyed. Yeah, it's a good thing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it goes back to the whole, it also goes back to the whole, there's a difference between like literal abuse and then spanking a kid because he does something bad. Exactly. Big difference.
SPEAKER_01Big difference.
SPEAKER_00Is there ever a point where um a person that you worked with or your young person any age was just too far gone to reach them?
SPEAKER_01Um to be honest, yes, right. Um on occasions I've dealt with children who had such mental health, you know, uh such a strong mental health disorder that there was nothing really we could do other than give the mother the advice or the information she needed to get that child deeper help, right? Which is sometimes medication. I am not a fan of medication. I think that our children are being misdiagnosed and over-diagnosed with medication. That is a big problem in America, where we're just throwing medication at these kids. And oftentimes these kids don't need medication. Sometimes they just need discipline and structure and love.
SPEAKER_00That's what I was gonna say. Discipline and discipline and some love, and they they'll they'll be fine.
SPEAKER_01And they'll be fine, right? But however, there have been kids that I've run into where um they have schizophrenia, right? Which is a a very serious mental health disorder where they're where they can't, they don't even know what they're doing to a degree, right? They can't even control their behavior, right? So on cases like that, we make the referrals um that that child may need, you know, medication, see a doctor, or you know, that goes beyond our scope. Um, but 99.9% of the cases that we have dealt with where parents are saying these children are on medication and they have some form of ADHD, OCD, ODD, Sean, I kid you not, after our interventions, the majority of those kids all of a sudden don't need medication. They're not, you know, they're not in a in in a mental crisis. They needed discipline. They needed discipline.
SPEAKER_00What does a child with with no strong role model look like in the home? I mean, you go into all these different houses. Is is how what what percentage are fatherless homes?
SPEAKER_01That is a great question. Um over eighty percent.
SPEAKER_00Eighty percent.
SPEAKER_01Over eighty percent of the house calls that I do, Sean, are fatherless homes where it's single moms who are raising these kids. Um and that's that's a huge problem, particularly in the black community.
SPEAKER_00Well, she probably works all day trying to pay the bills anyways, and so she's probably not doesn't have a lot of time with them to begin with.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's it's either that or yeah, she's either working um, you know, all day, you know, trying to pay the bills um as a single mother. So the child is being neglected at at home, right? Um, and and that is a big problem. And that is uh in the black community, I have to say that, right? It is it is horrible. It is one of the biggest, biggest problems I'm running into is that dads are not in the home. Dads are not in the home. That is a major problem in the black community, right? Um my organization, we don't make things about race. We don't like to do that. I don't even like to talk about race. Even this thing with the the latest uh black kid to stabbed and killed the the young white uh white kid, um, I think it's ridiculous. It's a it's a tragedy what happened to him. Um and justice does need to happen. Uh 35 years, is that a little too much? Who I'm not about to make that argument, right? But no kid should ever resort to stabbing another kid and taking his life, right? And you know, and everybody act like that's okay. And be, you know, because he's a black kid, you know, everybody wants to jump on the side and say, well, that's too much time. Well, it it may be, but I'm dealing with the fact that no kid should have taken a knife to a fist fight if it's the way I heard it correctly, right? I don't have all the details, right? So I'm I I don't want to go too deep, but I'm gonna say this, right? And I don't get into this stuff, right? But it's being so blown up all over America and all over social media that I almost feel compelled to say something about it. No kid, right, white or black or in should be taking a weapon and stabbing somebody over a fist fight, if that's how that happened, right? Now, you want to argue if the time is too much? That that's that's that's a different argument to have. But let's deal with the the fact that a kid stabbed somebody and took that other kid's life and it was a fist fight. Now, if those are not the details of the circumstance and I got it wrong, then then I got it wrong. But if it's like that, there's no more I I can say about that. You know, so so but we're not an organization that likes to talk about race and things like that. But going back to your point, in the black community, there is a higher rate of fatherless homes than any other nationality, not just white, any other nationality on the planet. That is a problem. That is a huge problem.
SPEAKER_00Which then is probably the reason that they end up kind of growing up on the streets. They turn they turn to the streets for help or gang or or other some other role models that that they're around in the streets.
SPEAKER_01Yes, that I mean that's I mean, it's it's so obvious. Um, it it infuriates me that no one else sees this stuff, right? Those who make laws and have the power to change the narrative, they don't do it. You and I can sit here in a five-minute conversation and figure out what the problem is and what's lacking, what's missing, and what should be done, right? If you have a household and the father is not in the home and the mother is forced to work to pay the bills, and you have a child or children, then who is raising that child or those children? And the question is if the parent isn't doing it, who's doing it? More than likely, it's the streets. So now children are out there in gangs, right? And gangs are not a positive influence on children. The last I heard, right? Gangs are gonna do gang stuff, street stuff to survival, you know, and so and so that's that's not a a a hard to come to that kind of conclusion. What you know, we know the problem, no one is doing enough to fix it, Sean.
SPEAKER_00How do you how do you fix that? How do you how do you fix the fatherless home thing?
SPEAKER_01Right. Well, you start by, I think you start, first of all, because it it goes deep into the economy, right? So we have to talk about the socioeconomic disadvantages, right? Things like that, right? So it goes very deep. But I think a good start for me is to bring back the strength of marriage, right? I I think that's a, you know, because there's there's several different points that we need to address, right, if we want to talk about holistically how to solve the problem in the black community, particularly on fatherless homes. But I think uh one of the first starts, right, a good beginner would be to start making marriage normal again, normalizing marriages, right? Um, because I think that's a big problem, is that marriage now has become almost distasteful. Nobody wants to get married. You don't hear about marriages no more. You know, like back in the day, again, I always refer back in the day, you know, you know, marriage was a big thing, and you would see a lot of it. You can it would be nothing to drive down the street every weekend and see somebody just got married and you know, and and photographers going doing weddings.
SPEAKER_00And a lot younger in life, too, right?
SPEAKER_01Like, and a lot young, yes, yes, and a lot younger in life. Good point. Yes. Today you don't you don't really see too many families getting married, you know. Matter of fact, you see more getting divorced in America than you do seeing them get married.
SPEAKER_00How does a kid's friend group impact his or her behavior, do you think?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um, it's just as important. Um, again, you know, who you hang around is is generally, you know, what you become. You know, association brings affiliation, uh, assimilation. You know, so I think that um we have to be mindful of who our children are around. Um, friendships make a huge impact on a child. You know, um a mother called me the other day saying that um her seven-year-old son in school was seen on a video in school sexually assaulting another boy, but he did it because the other friends he was with geeked him up to do it, encouraged him to do it. They were hitting him on his behind, hitting another boy, and that's a sexual assault, right? So they got this little six-year-old, seven-year-old boy on camera with a bunch of other kids, and the the little boy is saying, Stop, the one the one who was getting victimized was saying, stop, stop, let me go. And they were holding him down and they were, you know, hitting him on his butt. You know what I mean? Um, but what the boy was saying and what the mother was telling me is that he was only doing that because the other kids was edging him, egging him on, edging him on to do it. Peer pressure. Yeah, peer pressure. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And you know, if they're if they're not confident enough to make their own decisions and and know right from wrong, it's it's I know when they're that young, it's easy to give into it. Sure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00What how does a how does a child go from just being troubled to you know starting to be dangerous?
SPEAKER_01Well, there's many factors. I I think, again, um the video games and the music is is is plays an instrumental role on that. I believe that the music, because it's not all rap music is bad. Not all, right? So I want to make make that perfectly clear. There's some rap music that's that's okay. I've I've even listened to it myself. You know, but the drill rap music is a different beast, right? The drill rap music, it promotes violence, it promotes death, it promotes drugs, it promotes a lot of negative stuff. And a lot of the house calls that I do, children are quick to tell me the rap artists that they listen to. They'll name Little Dirk, they'll name King Bon, um, they'll name uh who is this other kid? It's like several other, you know, rapping, you know, uh drill rap music artists that these kids are listening to. And I would ask them, well, you know, how often do you listen to this stuff? And kids will literally tell me, from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed, they are literally listening to drill rap music that is telling them, you know, promoting death and disrespect of women, disrespect of authority. You know what I mean? We live in a time, Sean, where, you know, kids don't have no fear of nobody and nothing. They don't fear authority. Police officers, they don't fear their daddy, nobody, they don't fear nothing. You know what I'm saying? A lot of that is programming through what's going in their ear gate and their eye gate.
SPEAKER_00What do you think parents are doing wrong right now that that pushes their kids further away?
SPEAKER_01Well, that would be not spending enough time with them. One, um a lot of the adults is more concerned with Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook and and posting pictures and YouTube videos. Kind of the same spending time with their kids.
SPEAKER_00It's the same thing the kids are doing, spending them.
SPEAKER_01Right, right, right. These phones and these devices are a big distraction. I believe that it is uh we have not used those devices in a proper way. Um and the adults are just as bad as the children when it comes to these devices. I've asked parents, you know, are you on social media? Are you on and they yes, I'm on social media and and they're on social media just as much as their children, you know. So it's almost like, you know, when, when, how how do people get to know each other? How how how are they spending their time together to understand each other? You know what I mean? To have a simple conversation. Nobody is spending time together anymore. Everybody's distracted on phones and you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00It's like Yeah, the k they pick up the kid from school and then the parent gets off work, piss up the kid, and then comes home, and then they both end up on their phones.
SPEAKER_01What the heck? Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00Until you go to sleep, right?
SPEAKER_01So you until you go to sleep, you know. So I I think I think that's a that's a huge, huge problem, is just social media has taken over everyone's lives. These phones have become more sacred than our Bible. Um, it is just it's sad what I see is going on in the community. And and we and we and we're all been lulled into it, quite frankly, because everybody's trying to monetize social media. So everybody sees that as a way of of income. So now you got mom on a on a on social media platform because she she's made a couple of dollars off social media. Trying to make some money. Trying to make some money. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00When a parent has ended up completely losing their kids' trust, what do they do at that point to try to rebuild that trust, you think?
SPEAKER_01Well, um you have to be an example. I mean, I think the only way to rebuild anyone's trust once it's lost is you would have to prove. You have to show them that you're worthy of them of the trust again. You know what I mean? It's just like with a friendship or any relationship, you know, when you lose somebody's trust, the only way to gain trust back from someone is by being an example and showing them that you're trustworthy. You know, and that takes time. You know what I mean? You can't, you know, be a habitual liar, you know, for the past three years saying something and then, you know, all of a sudden, you know, want me to believe what you say. It just doesn't work like that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it goes back to, you know, you know, do what I do what I say, not as I do.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's that's that's unrealistic in today's time. Yeah. Unrealistic.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I mean I've noticed a lot just with my children that how much they end up like soaking up. And it it takes so long, it's it's hard to notice. Like in a good way, like they've they picked up positive habits for me that I didn't even know that they were gonna pick up. And it was just from them seeing me do it for six months, yeah, 12 months, a year, and then all of a sudden they come up to me and they're like, hey, I want to work out, hey, I want to do this. And it's just like, man, that's really cool. But it took a long time, and I think that that's what people don't realize. It does, it doesn't happen overnight.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It doesn't happen overnight at all. But we we've been lying to our children for a long time. We lie to our children every day, and people don't want to admit it. We've made lying almost become very uh acceptable in society. We lie to our children about Santa Claus, uh, we lie to our children about the Eastie Easter bunny, we lie about the Tooth Fairy, we lie about who discovered America, we lie about I'm going to always be in your life, I'm not going anywhere. Dads lie and say, I'm gonna pick you up, son, every weekend. You ain't gotta worry about, you know, that I'm always gonna be here for you. And dad is not there, children ain't seen their fathers in months and live literally around the block. I'm saying it because I know this to be true. I experienced it. We lie to our children so much and they're sick of it. Yeah, that's a good point. As opposed to just being honest to our children, why have we become so accustomed and comfortable with lying to our children? I mean, and we lie to them with a straight face until we literally want to make them believe the lie. And we know we're lying. Yeah, they're and we would lie to them with a straight face.
SPEAKER_00They're a lot smarter and in than you think they are. They are a lot smarter. They're picking up on everything.
SPEAKER_01Yes. And then when they find out as they get older and get more informed, when they come to find out that you've lied to them about not just one thing, two things, three things, you've been lying to them for their whole childhood. What would make you think that that all of a sudden they would trust anything that comes out your mouth? Please process that for the viewers who's watching this. What would make you think that you're you you have the trust of your child and your child wants to trust you? Or why they give more validity to the streets and other people who tell them certain things, but your your word means nothing to them. Well they will argue with you and they would fight you down about what you're telling them. Why would you have a hard time understanding why they're that way and you've lied to them all their childhood about multiple things, Sean, not just one thing about Santa Claus and a tooth fairy. You've lied to them about multiple things. Multiple.
SPEAKER_00Multiple. And they probably remember every single one.
SPEAKER_01And they remember every single one of them. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's a good point. When a parent grows up in a bad environment, what do they do differently to break the cycle so you know their kid the same thing doesn't happen to their kid? Because a lot of people do grow up in bad situations and in bad environments. And then, you know, how do they do something, how do they make their life different where that kid doesn't go through that same thing?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that that that comes to the economic aspect of what we do, right? And what's going on with our children. Um, because finances play a big, a huge role in that, right? It's very hard to, you know, give your child the life that, you know, they may deserve or that you want to give your child, but yet your finances don't, you know, suggest that you can make that a possibility, right? Um, which is why parents are on social media, right? Trying to earn a living on social media, because they see how oftentimes it's presented like it's so easy. Like, hey, if I just put a couple viral videos out doing the most outlandish things, right, I can possibly make $10,000 in a month, right? Which happens more often than not. You know, it happens a lot, you know, and people are making a lot of money off social media, right? So the so the single mothers, the single parents, the single dads, they see this, right? So a lot of them are looking at that as a financial resource. So now they're that's how they get caught up into the social media thing because they're trying to get the money so that maybe they can give their their children a better life and get out of the hood, so to speak.
SPEAKER_00Hey everyone, real quick, I just want to let you know this podcast is 100% independent. No ads, no sponsors, just real. If you're finding value in whatever we're doing here, the biggest help that you can give us is hitting subscribe and sharing this with someone who you think needs to hear it or someone that it will provide value to. That's how we continue to grow. And if you did that, I would really appreciate it. What does a parent do when they've tried everything and then nothing's working on their child?
SPEAKER_01You call the prison doctor.
SPEAKER_00Good point.
SPEAKER_01You call the prison doctor.
SPEAKER_00Is there something that maybe that you some advice that you could give them that maybe they they think they've tried everything, but that you can give them that they can try, then do themselves? Yeah, that's what they're doing before they call you? What should they do before they call you?
SPEAKER_01That is a great question, Sean. I don't think any uh interviewer ever asks me that question that I recollect. Um there's a lot they could do, quite frankly. Um the question is the time that they have to do it in, right? Let me explain. Some children are doing things every day that can jeopardize their life, right? They may not have until tomorrow to wait. Right? Some children are doing things that are literally possibly could get them killed or arrested in prison tomorrow for some of the things they're doing today. On situations where parents have a child like that, what they need to do immediately is they need to call the prison doctor, right? Call the prison doctor. If they have a child who is having small behavioral problems where, you know, it's not too extreme and they can afford to wait, you know, six months down the line. For those parents, I would simply advise is understanding your role as a parent, right? Understanding your child's needs and facilitating those needs. One of the number one needs that children have is attention. The need of attention. So what that parent needs to do with that child is spend more time with that child, even if it comes at a small financial hit, where the mother may not be able to work eight hours a day, may she, maybe she can only do, you know, she may have to only do five hours a day, right? And give that child a couple hours. You know, whatever the sacrifice mother, dad, you know, has to do, then that parent should be willing to make that sacrifice for the sake of her child or his child, right? Number one would be giving that child attention. Most children, particularly before they get teenagers, they just want attention, right? So that's number one what parents can do with with children uh that are younger. Um also what a parent can do is not, well, that's before they come uh um before they come to the parent, but don't don't become a parent, right? Until you have the dynamic, the structure, the foundation, you know, ready to have a child. That's you know what I mean? Uh but that's, you know, actually before um your question, what they can do. Because a lot of parents are just out here recklessly having children, Sean, right? Um, and you have no intentions on being with the dad, you know, or you have no intentions with being with the with the the mother of your child, you know, a lot of people out here just recklessly having sex and producing children, right? And that's a that's another huge problem. Um, but that is the advice I would probably give, Sean, to a parent um before they call me is spend time with your children, build the relationship, um, bring, bring God back into a home. That's the manual. I'm I'm big on God. Um, if you want to be a Muslim or a Christian or you want to be Hindu, whatever you want to be, children need some structure, some form of spirituality in that home. I'm not gonna dictate to your viewers um what I believe spiritually, right? But what I can say is this every home needs spiritual leadership. It needs a foundation, right? When you don't have a father in the home and you don't have any kind of spirituality in the home, then you're already on shaky ground on that alone.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think that also to add to that, lead by example for sure. Absolutely, parent needs to lead by example.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00I just I you know I I I'm bringing it up because I just keep seeing it in my kids more and more, like the more time goes by, the more they're repeating, they're doing what I'm doing. Oh, yeah. And it just takes a while. And so I think people just don't realize like you do it for a couple days and nothing happens. Sure. It takes months and months, and then and then they'll end up performing those same actions or having those same good habits or bad habits.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Whatever they see you doing all the time.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00How do you think anger in the home affects a child's development long term?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um, anger is a natural emotion, right? So it's nothing wrong with being angry, it's how you express it, right? So what I teach kids is when you're angry, you know, you can call the prison doctor organization. We have mentors on staff who children can talk to to talk them off of a ledge, right? Go into your room, you know, uh scream in your pillow, read a book, take a nap, do some push-ups. You know, there's many things you can do to offset, you know, when you're angry, right? But anger absolutely can, if if, if, if it's prolonged anger, then it absolutely can negatively impact your child. Not just your child, an adult. You know what I mean? Um, so I don't want to miss um um I don't want to confuse that anger is a natural emotion. It's nothing wrong with with anger in it in and of itself. To be anger, to be passionate about something that you don't like, and to have a certain emotion that a r that it you know brings out a certain feeling, right? Sometimes there's nothing wrong with that, depending, depending upon. But it's it's what you do with it. You know what I mean? That's that's the problem. Um but anger absolutely can have a huge, huge impact on a child, particularly if it's prolonged. But all parents should teach their children that anger is nothing but an emotion, right? There's nothing wrong with being angry about certain things, but how you act from your anger is what makes you mature or immature.
SPEAKER_00Good advice. What do you think parents are doing that they think is actually helping their kid, but but but in reality it's making it worse? What do you think they're some things they think they're doing that are helping? Yeah, but they're probably actually just making it worse.
SPEAKER_01Right. Pacifying their behavior, right? Or minimizing when they see things that they know is wrong and they and they make light of things, right?
SPEAKER_00Just letting it go.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just letting it go, or making making fun of it. Um, like a lot a lot of kids, you know, uh a curse. You know, you like little kids sometimes hear something and they'll go around and they're, you know, you'll hear a kid curse, and some some parents think that's cute and funny. You know, they could, you know, and think it's funny, or you know, a child to do a certain dance, for example. You know, these they got these booty shaking dances out here, you know. And sometimes these little girls, they they're seeing things on TV and they want to imitate, you know, some of the rap artists that they see on on TV, you know, this this booty shaking.
SPEAKER_00And then my parents are putting it on their social media, recording it and putting it on their own.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Yeah, we deal with that. Where parents are literally recording their children doing these sexualized dances at five years old and putting it on social media so that it go viral so that they can make some money off their children. You understand? So, so, and a lot of parents are making a mistake by, you know, thinking that that stuff is cute and pacifying that behavior and not knowing, or maybe they do know and just don't care, but it's a detriment to that child as they grow up. You know, we deal with a lot of children who are overly sexual at nine and ten years old, who are experiencing with, you know, sex toys and experimenting with, you know, touching and all kinds of stuff. Some of that is normal to a degree uh for self-discovery when you're a child, some of that is normal, right? But what I'm talking about is I have children, little girls at nine and ten years old, who are literally looking online for sex toys. You know what I'm saying? Doing things that are far worse than what you know, kids our day was doing. You know, and a lot of that is coming because they're watching mom doing very inappropriate things. You know what I mean? Um, I think when children don't understand the value of their body, boys or girls, when they don't understand how precious their body parts are and how sacred they are as a young lady, and those parts of her body should not be touched or played with. I think when parents miss the opportunity to teach their children about their biology and the sacredness of their body, that's a huge mistake, and you you're dropping the ball.
SPEAKER_00Aaron Powell How many homes do you go into, or what what percentage of homes do you think that addiction is is part of the problem in the household? You know, somebody having some type of drug addiction or alcohol addiction, you know, how what percentage do you think that is?
SPEAKER_01Well, a hundred percent of addiction, what kind of addictions varies, right? But there's always some kind of an addiction in all the homes I go into. Whether it's addiction to video games, whether it's addiction to overeating, whether it's addiction to um um not having emotional regulation, not knowing how to regulate the emotions properly. Brothers uh addiction to um um rap music, drill rap music. Literally, these are addiction, video games, all those are addictions, right? So it's always some kind of addiction, right? Um to what degree? Uh sometimes it it varies. I would say, if I'm just throwing a number, Sean, I would probably say at least 70%, where it's like uh addiction to drill rap music, um addiction to TikTok, addiction to Instagram, addiction to Facebook, addiction to, you know, overeating, addiction to anger, you know what I mean? Because that can be an addiction as well. So it's always some form of anger, uh uh, some form of addiction in all these homes.
SPEAKER_00What what do you think about the parents? So do you go into a lot of homes that the parents have some sort of like substance addiction? Or is it is it mostly just them having lack of discipline for their children?
SPEAKER_01Mostly lack of discipline for the children, but there there are absolutely cases where I went into homes and there's been um drugs, uh, you know, parents addicted to, you know, uh liquor or drugs or whatever, you have absolutely have dealt with a lot of homes like that. But the most of it is is just lack of structure, lacks a lack of discipline in a home. Most of it. These things that that I'm doing, quite frankly, Sean, every parent on the planet Earth can do. They just choose not to do it or they don't know how to do it effectively.
SPEAKER_00So that being said, do you, whenever you go in and you do one of these transformations, are you working with a family also, not just the kid? Great question.
SPEAKER_01No, absolutely. Um 100% of the time we're working with the families. In every case, the reality is I can't help a child transform if I don't help the parents first, or as or as alongside of them. You know what I mean? Um, so in every house call that I do, in every single one, and you and that's a great question because I don't show that on social media. A lot of people don't know that. Yeah, you're not. Because I get a lot of comments my staff is always telling me because I don't read my social media that much, they do it, and they're telling me that people actually will say, Well, maybe you should work with the mom, or maybe you should get mad at the dad or check the mother because it's the mother's fault. And when they tell me these things, I'm like, duh, obviously I have to work with the mother or the or the or the father behind the scenes. You know what I mean? Um, you know, and that's 100% of the time. We we I can't, this is it would be impossible, Sean, for me to help a child and expect for them to have a full transformation if I don't work with the parents first, because oftentimes the child is misbehaving because of something the parent did or didn't do.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I would say, you know, which is probably the reason they got to the point that they're at, is the parent has been doing that for so long or letting things go for so long. Absolutely. No discipline and letting them letting the behavior get like that. I mean, uh most of the time I I would suspect it doesn't that doesn't happen overnight. Yeah, it does that's a long period of time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but but we are number one in the world at stopping the behavior instantly, right? I'm I'm talking about the violent behavior or whatever the child is doing, you know, that's causing him or her to end up in jail or killed. We have the highest success rate of being able to stop that behavior once we get involved immediately.
SPEAKER_00Can you share a story of a family that that was in a really bad place, like Rock Bottom Place, and they were able to turn it around after you went in there?
SPEAKER_01Oh man, many. Yeah, many of those. Yeah, we we yeah, we I have all of my social media or my YouTube, uh, we have a lot of testimonials from parents um who were shocked. Um, you know, they call us the last resort, you know, all the house calls we do, when the first thing they say is, listen, you are the last resort. If if you don't work, I I've tried everything. I've tried therapists, took my child to therapy, I've taken them to the police department, police stations. I've done tried, I've took them to the boot camp. Nothing has worked. So you're my last resort. Um, and we deliver. Um, so but yeah, we've had families that were, you know, most of the families I deal with, most, right? We deal with a lot of high-end celebrity cases that I've done in Beverly Hills. A lot of celebrities in Atlanta that I deal with is very financially well off. However, the majority of the house calls that I do are people who are, you know, they don't have money, right? Um, they have no resources, um, and they're in a very bad place. They live in a very poor community, um, and their children are struggling. Um, literally, where these kids are in gangs, um, guns are under the pillow in their homes. I went into homes literally where kids are, they have weapons, right? Under their mattress or under their pillow, literally, knives and guns. This is not not a joke. And um we've had great success stories with families like that. We have the we really have the highest success rate with doing this stuff. I put my life on the line, me and my team, we go into homes not knowing if we're gonna walk out alive, which is why we have a system of how we do things. See, a lot of people think we just go into these homes sporadically, no planning, no, you know what I mean? No. We go in here like squat. Yeah, they don't see the bottom. They don't see the behind scenes. This thing is really structured very well, Sean. I mean, we get all the intel, the information. Even two minutes before we go into the home, we're on the phone with the parent, finding out exactly where that child is, what that child is doing, what is the behavior, what is the temperature in that house. We literally are on the phone right before we enter, right? So we have a good gauge of quickly where to go. So we're not searching for the child. If you notice on my social media, Sean, you never see me like really searching, spending time searching. We know exactly where that child is. But those are a lot of things that, you know, the public don't know that I I've just shared on your platform for the first time. So that is that should be breaking news for you.
SPEAKER_00What do you tell a kid that's already been to to juvenile or jail and that maybe thinks their life is over, or maybe they think that they don't have any future? It's never too late.
SPEAKER_01Listen, I was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison for vehicle arm robbery for stealing a car, literally. Literally stealing a car. Um, I the time when that judge slammed that mallet, I'll never forget it, I was in court uh and I was waiting on my sentence, and I I was hoping uh that he wasn't gonna give me as much as he did. So I was praying to God. When that judge slammed that mallet, Sean, and said 25 to 50 years in prison, my heart dropped. I literally thought my life was over. I was 19, 20 years old. Can you imagine hearing the judge tell you that you just got sentenced to more years in prison than you are alive in life? You understand? So at that time I thought my life was over, right? But there was something in me that God put in my soul that says that I was more than my environment, that I was better than my environment, that I was not a wasted piece of flesh, that that there was something great in me that was just dormant, that needed to come out, that if I had the chance, the right people pour into me I don't always get emotional when I talk about this stuff the right people to believe in me, that one day I would be great. So the message to the children is no matter how bad your circumstances is, there is something great in you that you just got to pull out. Um, and oftentimes that takes people to believe in them. So believe in yourself. Um always know that it's never too late. You can always turn your life around. You just need people to believe in you. Just like you do for people. That's the truth.
SPEAKER_00Appreciate that. Yeah. You think prisons are making people better or worse when they come out?
SPEAKER_01Um for the most part. Yeah, for the mo for the most part, um that's a great question. For the most part, I would say it's making them worse, to be honest, um, because I'm looking at society as a whole, right? Um, the prison system is just a money bag. It's it's become so reckless and so so so disgusting, uh, the prison system itself. It doesn't rehabilitate, right? There was a time when prison used to rehabilitate people. You would come out because you learned certain skills and trades in prison where you had the shoe factory, you had braille, where you learned how to read sign language. You know, I speak sign language, you know, I speak, you know, sign language for the hearing impaired. Yeah, I also speaks a little Spanish as well. Yorostado estudiando español desde así cinco años. You know, so I learned a lot of things in prison. I learned the Bible, the dictionary, the Quran, sign language, Spanish. I learned every self-help group you could uh class you could think of in prison. I mastered it. Uh, because again, I believed in myself. And I refuse to let that judge tell me uh that I was a waste of life and you're gonna control my life and throw it away. So I cannot contribute to the world. Are you serious? So I studied. Um but yeah, some people come out of prison, Sean, and and they're more incentivized and motivated. Some of your best artists, your best drawers, people who draw and paint come out of prison. Some of your best musicians and instrumentalists come out of prison better than anything you could have ever imagined, right? Because they had time to work on their craft. They had time to work on themselves, right? Because they've been put away where they they they had time to go within and self-reflect and develop those skills that I was speaking about that are lying dormant in people. They had time to go within themselves and and discover. And they came out and changed the world. A lot of your greatest people who contributed to society were people who were enclosed in places and kept away from the masses of people, right? Prison being one of those places. So you have a lot of talented people who are in prison, and unfortunately, they're dying in there uh because of mistakes that they've made and unfair sentences that they were given. And those people are rotting away with talents that could change this world. Um, and that's that's a tragedy.
SPEAKER_00What about the school system? What do they you think they get wrong, you know, with the trouble kids or the the at-risk kids that are there? What do you think they could do better or how they could do something differently?
SPEAKER_01They've been stripped of power. Um, you know, when you had woodshed, you know, and you had teachers that had, you know, certain authorities where they could discipline a child or, you know, they could kind of raise their voice to a child, you know, those things impacted children in a good way. Um, you know, and that's just the reality. Um so now you strip teachers away from the power to kind of discipline a child, right? And then you overpopulate the classroom, right, with that teacher. So now you're dealing with a bunch of uh um undeveloped children, undeveloped minds, right? You're dealing with a bunch of children, and then you strip that teacher of the power to be able to correct them in no kind of woodshed or where a child sees if I do this in class, there's a consequence. So you strip the parent. I mean, you strip the teacher, right? You know, so so teachers are really at the mercy of children today in school, and it's it's it's really sad. Um, so what could they do better? I don't know. I I don't know. Talk to the legislatures and tell them what what they need in order to be able to have the freedom to teach and ex in their children, uh, but they don't have they don't have the support they need right now. So I don't blame teachers.
SPEAKER_00It gets very political. It's hard to do something like that.
SPEAKER_01Yep, I don't blame the teachers.
SPEAKER_00If a parent right now is listening and they feel like they're losing their child, what do you tell those parents?
SPEAKER_01Don't give up on that child. Love your child, they're your responsibility. You brought them in this world, right? So at that point, sometimes parents need to grow up, right? And understand that it's hard. No one isn't said it's gonna be easy, right? It might have been easy to make them, but it's not easy to keep them because there's certain things that come with being a parent, right? And most of that is sacrifice. Most of that is sacrifice. And being a parent, there is a huge sacrificial thing that you must do. You must give off to self. You cannot put yourself first. And a lot of young parents don't get that. And they're not mature enough to do that because they only think in a selfish way, right? Putting somebody else first above me, above my life. And I've no, I've been waiting to become an adult and live free and go out and live life vicariously and do what I want to do and you know, listen and smoke, you know. No, no, you can't, mom. No, dad, you can't. The child comes first.
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SPEAKER_01That I'm gonna be rich. I'm gonna be rich one day. One day I'm gonna be rich. All this hard work is gonna pay off. Um to be patient. I think that's what I would have wanted somebody to tell me and if I and made me believe it. I wish I believed it, right? Because I'm sure somebody, you know, I've heard it before.
SPEAKER_00That's a hard thing when you're younger because I I was very impatient. A lot of young people were wanting it to happen tomorrow. Yeah. And it it's hard. It's it's definitely I I think that is good advice because if you do have a strong role model, kind of just really drilling that in your head, a little bit more likely to listen to it. But I, you know, I I have the same thing. Like everybody, when you're young, it's really hard to see 10 years down the road. It's always like, what can I how can I get it today?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, I wish that's that's what somebody would tell me is to be patient. Um, but I I I truly believe, Sean, that all our children out here can be helped and can be saved, right? But it's gonna require for the adults to get it right. It's gonna require a couple of basic things, and let me just give you these two. One is we have to get rid of what they're hearing and what they're seeing. I am 100% convinced that this drill rap music is one of the worst things that are happening to our children. Number two, I believe social media, if not stripped from a child until a certain age, right, where they become mature enough where they can handle these devices, like maybe 15, 16, right? In my opinion, 13 is still too young. Anything under 13 is too young for a child to have a device, right? Because the devices are are so structured today where it's it requires the child to scroll and look, and it's so captivating to a child. The colors, the fast paced of the of the of the of the games and the cartoons they're watching, right? It's very addictive. Even the color coding on some of these cartoons are are detrimental, right? Because colors play a role on a child's brain, right? The colors of it of the cartoons, the brightness of things, right? It can attract a child and it does something to their to their brain, right? And then they're scrolling and they're looking and they're, you know, so social media, I think, is is uh, and and even science is even proven that today. A lot of your, you know, your uh politicians and scientists and and developers are even starting to admit that, yeah, there's something going wrong with this social media in our children. Maybe we're giving them these devices a little too early in life because it is causing too much havoc with their children.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you couple that with not having the parents really involved in their life and then the discipline, and like that creates a perfect storm, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Of you know, because they don't know they're letting that device like basically raise them. You know, if they've if if they're watching that for or they're on social media or, you know, TV or whatever it is for eight hours a day when they're not at school, then it's gonna be hard for them to have a good relationship with the parents, good role model, good advice, somebody to look up to, make morally good decisions, you know, there's they're just not gonna have that. And so I think I think that is a big problem. And I think parents do let their, like you said, I think that they don't sacrifice enough and they, you know, for their own whether enjoyment or or what they want to do in life, they don't take the time to spend the time with the kids and then and then really teach them and really be a good role model. I think that that's a big issue for sure.
SPEAKER_01You know, Sean, you're a very smart man. I don't know, right, but I don't believe you have a PhD or a um Congress or Senate type of um um education or whatever it causes to be one of those people, but yet you you you figured it out. Basic common sense. We're just sitting here talking. Of course. Basic common sense. You you you you see what what what is going wrong with our children, you see what they're doing, and then you figure it out. You know what I mean? You you you kind of narrow down what possibly could be causing these things. And I believe that everything we just said in this past 40 minutes, right? I I find it hard to believe that the powers that be don't see this stuff, right? And I only say that because they have powers to make things different. They have powers to change things a little bit, right? To make things a little bit easier for our children, right? I'm only talking about the children, right? But yet no one is doing enough. And I think that's part of my my struggle and my pain is to understand why why our leaders, right? Maybe not the, you know, the president is the head, of course, but why isn't enough being done to focus on helping our children with some of the basic things that you and I just covered in 40 minutes? I think that's one of my biggest struggles.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. What do you want your legacy to be? I mean, you're already doing amazing work and and changing a bunch of lives.
SPEAKER_01Um, I want my legacy to be that I lived a life of purpose. That right, wrong, or indifferent, I stood on what I believe in, uh, and I died doing it. Uh I want to be remembered as a person who started something that was historic, that added value to struggling families and children all around the world, and that I was submissive to my calling. I was submissive to God and what I believed to be my calling, and I stood on it in truth. You know, because so many people do things for, you know, unauthentic things. They do it for for false reasons or they do it for money, they do it for clicks on Instagram, and they do it for fame, they do it to be light and all that stuff. I want people to know me and and say, you know, my man Myron, the prison doctor, man, he he was a real brother. He did what he did because he believed it and he stood on righteousness. That's what I want to be remembered.
SPEAKER_00Thank you for coming.
SPEAKER_01You're welcome, Sean. Thank you for having me. Greatest platform in America. All right, thank you.