Kevin K.R. Robinson
Kevin "KAYR" Robinson is a USA TODAY best-selling author of "Can't Break Me," entrepreneur, real estate investor, and founder of KAYR Motivates, formerly with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
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Sep 29, 2026
Zenzi SewaahHOST
You started at nine years smoking marijuana and drinking and you stopped when you were 13 years.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
Remember I said I had older siblings who dropped out of school, was selling drugs, got pregnant.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
So they were in that life and I wanted to be like them because I thought that was what to do.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
But my stepdad at the time, who I talk about in the book, Can't Break Me, I call him Father Charles.
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Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
So when I was in eighth grade, I started reading books because I realized my parents loved me a lot.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
I also wanted to learn about like, okay, why weren't they good with their money management things of that nature.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
And what I learned was that they had their own board of directors, these companies that would advise the CEO and they meet with them periodically.
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David ChametzkyHOST
How do you how does how would you suggest for young people or even older people to try to ease into something like that? That's very daunting.
Dave DuBoisHOST
Why would he leave that and start working? Even with being a landlord and whatnot.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
I always, it goes back to when we were living, and I talk about this in my book, Can't Break Me.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
It goes back to when we lived in that studio apartment in North Philadelphia, where we had a hot plate, no stove.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
We had a bathtub, no shower, and 15 people competing for space with rats and roaches and flies.
Kevin K.R. RobinsonGUEST
And I remember living in those conditions because my siblings, some of them got pregnant as teenagers, 14, 15, 16, back to back.
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