The Leadership Gap Costing Louisiana Generations

Yeah, you do.

So we're going to get into malaria enterprises and the various brands and the specifics around those.

We're going to talk leadership, too, because you, as you mentioned, you are a published author in that space.

But I want to talk about the entrepreneurial journey, as we mentioned earlier.

What have you learned and what advice do you give other entrepreneurs and business owners?

Well, I'll tell you a couple of things.

One, it's always harder than you think.

It costs more than you think, and it will take longer than you think.

I think the beautiful thing, you know, I've traveled.

I've been fortunate.

I've traveled all over the world, and I still come back.

This is the greatest country.

I kiss this ground.

This is still, with all of our challenges, this is the land of opportunity.

This is where dreams can come true.

This is the reason people are still fighting to get into this country.

because there's no other place like america and um and it is hard you got to work it it's all hard you got to have a dream uh that's what my mother gave me uh but it it it'll cost you a lot of people you know uh i chuckle at these things in social media right go be an entrepreneur entrepreneur 98 of people can't be entrepreneurs right because of the sacrifice the price you have got to pay right not just financially but in sacrifice physically emotionally mentally spiritually And the other thing, I tell these young entrepreneurs, I was fortunate.

There's two ways to really learn and accelerate your learning curve, mentors or mistakes.

Find mentors, right? We're all going to have pain in life, but you can cut down on some of that pain, right? Most people, just like both of you, they see a lot of the success, but they don't see, you know, have success.

triple the amount of failures than i have of successes right but that's what it takes right that you got to have adversity and mentors can help you right i i'm i'm real fortunate i really think everybody should have three mentors i have i have a couple of mentors older than me i have some mentors in my same age And I have a couple.

I believe in reverse mentorship.

I'm not getting left behind.

You know, so I have a couple of mentors younger than me, right, that I'm constantly learning and feeding off of.

And probably the last thing is that you have got accounting is the language of business.

Many of them get in there and they don't understand a balance sheet.

Yeah, you do.

So we're going to get into malaria enterprises and the various brands and the specifics around those.

We're going to talk leadership, too, because you, as you mentioned, you are a published author in that space.

But I want to talk about the entrepreneurial journey, as we mentioned earlier.

What have you learned and what advice do you give other entrepreneurs and business owners?

Well, I'll tell you a couple of things.

One, it's always harder than you think.

It costs more than you think, and it will take longer than you think.

I think the beautiful thing, you know, I've traveled.

I've been fortunate.

I've traveled all over the world, and I still come back.

This is the greatest country.

I kiss this ground.

This is still, with all of our challenges, this is the land of opportunity.

This is where dreams can come true.

This is the reason people are still fighting to get into this country.

because there's no other place like america and um and it is hard you got to work it it's all hard you got to have a dream uh that's what my mother gave me uh but it it it'll cost you a lot of people you know uh i chuckle at these things in social media right go be an entrepreneur entrepreneur 98 of people can't be entrepreneurs right because of the sacrifice the price you have got to pay right not just financially but in sacrifice physically emotionally mentally spiritually And the other thing, I tell these young entrepreneurs, I was fortunate.

There's two ways to really learn and accelerate your learning curve, mentors or mistakes.

Find mentors, right? We're all going to have pain in life, but you can cut down on some of that pain, right? Most people, just like both of you, they see a lot of the success, but they don't see, you know, have success.

triple the amount of failures than i have of successes right but that's what it takes right that you got to have adversity and mentors can help you right i i'm i'm real fortunate i really think everybody should have three mentors i have i have a couple of mentors older than me i have some mentors in my same age And I have a couple.

I believe in reverse mentorship.

I'm not getting left behind.

You know, so I have a couple of mentors younger than me, right, that I'm constantly learning and feeding off of.

And probably the last thing is that you have got accounting is the language of business.

Many of them get in there and they don't understand a balance sheet.