Put your glasses on—we’re looking at life from a completely different viewpoint.
After a much-needed seasonal break, DP is back behind the mic for a brand new episode of the PUR.spective Podcast. In this transparent and deeply reflective return, DP breaks down what it truly means to pivot in life, business, and purpose, reminding listeners that transitions don't have to be destructive to be necessary.
Whether you are an entrepreneur, a creator, or someone navigating a major personal shift, this episode explores why clinging to old seasons, old relationships, or outgrown environments can hold you back from the blessings waiting for you in your next chapter. DP shares insights on how to stop, assess, protect your energy, and find new options when life demands a change of direction.
If you are trying to figure out where to go next, how to handle life's inevitable seasons, or how to step boldly into what's next without fear, this episode will give you the strategy and encouragement you need.
Key Discussion Points:
- The Art of the Pivot: Why seasons change, and how stopping to reassess allows you to protect your progress and create new options.
- Embracing Transitions: Understanding that leaving an old job, relationship, or space isn't a failure; it's part of the game.
- Network & Brand Growth: An exclusive look behind the scenes at building the Viewpoints Podcast Network and scaling independent media.
- Faith & Evolution: Aligning your mindset with the new rooms, environments, and levels God is calling you into.
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00:00:02 --> 00:00:08 Peace and love this is DP and welcome to perspective
00:00:08 --> 00:00:11 where we see things From a different viewpoint
00:00:11 --> 00:00:45 every Wednesday at 12. No It's been a minute
00:00:45 --> 00:00:47 I know it's been a minute matter of fact It's
00:00:47 --> 00:00:50 been so long. I ain't seen y 'all in like a year.
00:00:50 --> 00:00:52 Probably a little over a year. I have not recorded
00:00:52 --> 00:00:56 an episode of Perspective. So I'm going to reiterate
00:00:56 --> 00:00:58 the house rules and tell y 'all what I need y
00:00:58 --> 00:00:59 'all to do. I need you to do two things for me
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00:01:01 --> 00:01:04 go. I need you to like and subscribe. Like this
00:01:04 --> 00:01:08 channel, like this podcast. Subscribe to this
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00:01:11 --> 00:01:13 when I start making more consistent content,
00:01:13 --> 00:01:17 I need you to appear, be in the room. comment,
00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 review, all the good stuff. And then when you
00:01:19 --> 00:01:22 leave, if you found value in this episode, if
00:01:22 --> 00:01:24 you like this episode, go ahead and tag two people,
00:01:25 --> 00:01:27 all right? Like we say, like we used to say every
00:01:27 --> 00:01:31 other week. Tag two people if I'm in church with
00:01:31 --> 00:01:34 you, all right? Oh man, I don't even know where
00:01:34 --> 00:01:37 to start with y 'all. Like I've been gone for
00:01:37 --> 00:01:40 a year for a reason. I didn't just leave, I didn't
00:01:40 --> 00:01:43 just stop. I don't have a consistency problem.
00:01:43 --> 00:01:48 I might. but i don't think i do i just been going
00:01:48 --> 00:01:50 for a minute man i've been busy uh have have
00:01:50 --> 00:01:54 a lot kind of going on transpiring and that's
00:01:54 --> 00:01:57 kind of what this episode is about um it's about
00:01:57 --> 00:02:03 pivoting right um from the last time we talked
00:02:03 --> 00:02:10 last year um i had wrote my first book called
00:02:10 --> 00:02:13 Viewpoints, the 21 day devotional to new perspectives.
00:02:14 --> 00:02:17 You can still get that on my website, dwpglobal
00:02:17 --> 00:02:21 .net. So go get my book. It's an ebook. So you
00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 can read it on your iPad, you can read it on
00:02:24 --> 00:02:28 your phone, all that good stuff. And then I took
00:02:29 --> 00:02:31 a small break because I had some things going
00:02:31 --> 00:02:34 on or coming up at the end of June last year.
00:02:36 --> 00:02:40 made some transitions, even in what we were doing
00:02:40 --> 00:02:44 as far as the podcast. What you will soon find
00:02:44 --> 00:02:47 out, I guess I'll look at out the bag now. We
00:02:47 --> 00:02:52 are part of a new podcast network. And we are
00:02:52 --> 00:02:56 a part of my podcast network. I am now the curator
00:02:56 --> 00:02:59 of a podcast network called the Viewpoints Podcast
00:02:59 --> 00:03:03 Network, right? As of right now, as it stands,
00:03:03 --> 00:03:08 as I'm recording this right now. We are seven
00:03:08 --> 00:03:12 shows, and we have seven shows on our podcast
00:03:12 --> 00:03:16 network. And man, I've been busy kind of starting
00:03:16 --> 00:03:19 that, curating that. When I first started this
00:03:19 --> 00:03:25 podcast, quick story, I guess kind of just by
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 my ambition and by my drive, I am a producer,
00:03:28 --> 00:03:30 right? When I was a little kid, what do you wanna
00:03:30 --> 00:03:32 be when you grow up? I wanted to be a music producer.
00:03:33 --> 00:03:35 I knew what I wanted to do. very, very early
00:03:35 --> 00:03:37 on in my life. I knew I wanted to do music. I
00:03:37 --> 00:03:40 knew I wanted to produce, not knowing that I
00:03:40 --> 00:03:44 had the ability, really with anything I did,
00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 just to be a producer, right? I love working
00:03:47 --> 00:03:50 with people who have potential. I love taking
00:03:50 --> 00:03:53 elements and actually turning them into something.
00:03:53 --> 00:03:58 So for me, I didn't know that producing would
00:03:58 --> 00:04:02 in return come in the scope of being a podcast
00:04:02 --> 00:04:05 producer. But long story short, while starting
00:04:05 --> 00:04:10 ViewPoint, listening to a lot of podcasts, seeing
00:04:10 --> 00:04:13 a lot of podcasts, producers online, learning
00:04:13 --> 00:04:17 what podcast networks were, right? Not just the
00:04:17 --> 00:04:19 big engines like iHeart and Black Effect and
00:04:19 --> 00:04:22 things of that nature, but like when I started
00:04:22 --> 00:04:25 my podcast, I didn't have enough listeners and
00:04:25 --> 00:04:29 views to join like iHeart or anything like that.
00:04:29 --> 00:04:33 So I started kind of researching like you know
00:04:33 --> 00:04:37 smaller startup podcast networks for you know
00:04:37 --> 00:04:39 new shows startup shows so that you know may
00:04:39 --> 00:04:43 have less than 100 you know views and subscribers
00:04:43 --> 00:04:45 and things of that nature and we ended up running
00:04:45 --> 00:04:48 into the network that we were a part of um and
00:04:48 --> 00:04:52 it was a great network it amplified black voices
00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 had some amazing shows on there i learned so
00:04:55 --> 00:04:59 so much just from the back end of learning how
00:04:59 --> 00:05:03 to podcast learning how to structure your show,
00:05:04 --> 00:05:07 learning how to make your show marketable. And
00:05:07 --> 00:05:10 so I began to notice that a lot of people that
00:05:10 --> 00:05:14 I knew had potentials to start podcasts. They
00:05:14 --> 00:05:16 had good content or maybe they already started
00:05:16 --> 00:05:20 a podcast and just kind of needed help structuring
00:05:20 --> 00:05:22 it or they needed help with the distribution
00:05:22 --> 00:05:24 side. Like they didn't really know where to go
00:05:24 --> 00:05:27 to start distributing their podcasts. They didn't
00:05:27 --> 00:05:29 really know the ins and outs or the language
00:05:29 --> 00:05:32 of you know being on apple podcast or spotify
00:05:32 --> 00:05:35 since that nature and um after kind of thinking
00:05:35 --> 00:05:38 about it i kind of knew from looking up podcast
00:05:38 --> 00:05:40 networks that at some point i want to start a
00:05:40 --> 00:05:44 network um because i had a lot of shows in mind
00:05:44 --> 00:05:47 but then again i have people who are just great
00:05:47 --> 00:05:49 that i knew hey maybe they were coming out with
00:05:49 --> 00:05:51 a book they're coming out with a product they're
00:05:51 --> 00:05:53 making certain transitions this person has a
00:05:53 --> 00:05:55 great story to tell that should be a podcast
00:05:55 --> 00:05:58 that should be a podcast and we think that the
00:05:58 --> 00:06:00 market for podcasts is super saturated, but it's
00:06:00 --> 00:06:04 really not like, I mean, there are millions of
00:06:04 --> 00:06:07 podcasts that are failing, right? Majority of
00:06:07 --> 00:06:11 the time, we only see the ones who have certain
00:06:11 --> 00:06:13 amount of subscribers, certain amount of views,
00:06:13 --> 00:06:15 get a certain amount of listens, or already one
00:06:15 --> 00:06:19 major podcasting networks, or we see podcasts
00:06:19 --> 00:06:22 from people who are like celebrities, so, you
00:06:22 --> 00:06:25 know. This person may come out with a podcast
00:06:25 --> 00:06:27 and because they're celebrity they automatically
00:06:27 --> 00:06:31 go to the top but you have a lot of Small shows
00:06:31 --> 00:06:33 that have a lot of value. They just need to help
00:06:33 --> 00:06:35 they just need to push and they just need the
00:06:35 --> 00:06:38 consistency And again, maybe that just might
00:06:38 --> 00:06:40 be their market right? There's nothing wrong
00:06:40 --> 00:06:42 with a small market You just have to know how
00:06:42 --> 00:06:46 to maximize your small market long story short
00:06:46 --> 00:06:49 And the last year I begin to think we'll start
00:06:49 --> 00:06:52 turning started talking to a couple of friends,
00:06:52 --> 00:06:56 had one friend who was writing a book, writing
00:06:56 --> 00:06:59 a devotional, had another friend who was making
00:06:59 --> 00:07:04 a transition from a musician to a more, I guess,
00:07:05 --> 00:07:08 corporate or maybe more pastoral role, church
00:07:08 --> 00:07:12 -wise, and both guys had great stories, was meeting
00:07:12 --> 00:07:14 other people, was seeing other people who had
00:07:14 --> 00:07:16 books, had products out. I was like, hey man,
00:07:16 --> 00:07:17 that should be a podcast, that should be a podcast,
00:07:17 --> 00:07:20 that should be a podcast. And then so from there
00:07:20 --> 00:07:23 kind of working out the thoughts, working out
00:07:23 --> 00:07:25 the ideas, working with everybody. And long story
00:07:25 --> 00:07:28 short now, I've produced a little over seven
00:07:28 --> 00:07:31 shows, right? I've produced a little over seven
00:07:31 --> 00:07:35 shows and my initial goal was to take the first
00:07:35 --> 00:07:37 show I was helping to produce and be like, hey
00:07:37 --> 00:07:38 man, I'm gonna put you on the network that I'm
00:07:38 --> 00:07:42 on. And at the time I think my contract was coming
00:07:42 --> 00:07:45 up with them and... I had pitched the idea to
00:07:45 --> 00:07:47 him about starting my own network. And he was
00:07:47 --> 00:07:49 like, well, let's do this. He was like, if I
00:07:49 --> 00:07:52 start my show, instead of paying them to be on
00:07:52 --> 00:07:54 their network, why don't I just pay you and I'll
00:07:54 --> 00:07:57 be on your network? And I was like, I like that
00:07:57 --> 00:08:03 idea. So he kind of sparked that curating side
00:08:03 --> 00:08:06 of me to start a podcast network. So that's one
00:08:06 --> 00:08:08 place where I've been. That's one pivot that
00:08:08 --> 00:08:10 I've had to make within the last years, pivoting
00:08:10 --> 00:08:13 from one network to another. not just being a
00:08:13 --> 00:08:16 host for a talent on one network but actually
00:08:16 --> 00:08:18 now running the network producing more of the
00:08:18 --> 00:08:22 shows getting the talent setting up the contracts
00:08:22 --> 00:08:24 and things of that nature so that's one pivot
00:08:24 --> 00:08:29 then um have a couple other pivots that i got
00:08:29 --> 00:08:31 going on right now i'm not going to tell you
00:08:31 --> 00:08:34 all of my life story but i have a couple other
00:08:34 --> 00:08:37 pivots going on that are i'm in the middle of
00:08:37 --> 00:08:40 some of them are set in stone Other ones, I'm
00:08:40 --> 00:08:43 still in the process of being picked or selected.
00:08:45 --> 00:08:48 So pivoting is honestly just a major part of
00:08:48 --> 00:08:51 life that I don't think any of us can ever avoid,
00:08:51 --> 00:08:55 right? Like you ever meet one person that's like,
00:08:55 --> 00:08:57 let's say career -wise, they're just stuck on
00:08:57 --> 00:08:59 this one job, right? They don't feel fulfilled.
00:09:00 --> 00:09:02 There's really no advancement. There's nothing
00:09:02 --> 00:09:05 they can do. But because they're so comfortable
00:09:05 --> 00:09:08 there, they won't pivot. They won't make the
00:09:08 --> 00:09:11 necessary changes to maybe put themselves on
00:09:11 --> 00:09:13 trajectory to do something else that's more fulfilling,
00:09:13 --> 00:09:17 allow them to be more successful, more financially,
00:09:19 --> 00:09:21 who I wanna say, fulfilling for them, right?
00:09:21 --> 00:09:25 I'm gonna make more money from it. And they're
00:09:25 --> 00:09:29 afraid to pivot. And one thing I'm learning and
00:09:29 --> 00:09:31 have learned and wanna help other people understand
00:09:31 --> 00:09:34 is, amen, at some point, you're gonna have to
00:09:34 --> 00:09:37 change. You're gonna have to pivot. Things happen,
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39 seasons are over. Just because you're pivoting
00:09:39 --> 00:09:42 doesn't mean anything is bad or anything is wrong
00:09:42 --> 00:09:45 or you're mad at people. We talked about it a
00:09:45 --> 00:09:48 few times in a couple of other episodes, like
00:09:48 --> 00:09:51 transitions don't have to be bad. You don't have
00:09:51 --> 00:09:53 to cancel people because you're transitioning.
00:09:53 --> 00:09:55 Things don't have to be weird or complicated.
00:09:56 --> 00:09:58 Sometimes it's just time to make the move, right?
00:09:59 --> 00:10:02 Sometimes it's just time to make the move. And
00:10:02 --> 00:10:05 sometimes you just have to sit with, hey. Maybe
00:10:05 --> 00:10:08 this isn't the space for me anymore right at
00:10:08 --> 00:10:12 one point in time Like it was the space it worked.
00:10:12 --> 00:10:17 It was wonderful for me. I learned a lot Now
00:10:17 --> 00:10:18 it's time for me to do something different like
00:10:18 --> 00:10:22 one one transition. I'm making really is going
00:10:22 --> 00:10:28 from being like a musician to I'm ready to retire
00:10:28 --> 00:10:32 Like I've I've I've played in church. I played
00:10:32 --> 00:10:35 in other places play for people All the good
00:10:35 --> 00:10:39 stuff, right? And I'm kinda at the point where
00:10:39 --> 00:10:42 it's like, I kinda, I don't really wanna, I still
00:10:42 --> 00:10:45 wanna do it, but I wanna do it on my own terms,
00:10:45 --> 00:10:47 if that makes sense. I don't wanna have to be
00:10:47 --> 00:10:50 tied to doing it all the time. Sometimes I just
00:10:50 --> 00:10:52 wanna play, cause I wanna play. I don't wanna
00:10:52 --> 00:10:55 play, cause I have to play. You know what I mean?
00:10:55 --> 00:11:00 And so I'm kinda making that pivot too, because...
00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 What looks like maybe another trajectory or another
00:11:04 --> 00:11:08 role for me to take, it's completely new for
00:11:08 --> 00:11:12 me. Like I've never been a part of what I'm walking
00:11:12 --> 00:11:18 into now. I've never had to have somebody pick
00:11:18 --> 00:11:21 me to do something. Usually people call me because
00:11:21 --> 00:11:23 they saw me do it and it's like, hey, we want
00:11:23 --> 00:11:26 you to do this. Now it's kind of like almost
00:11:26 --> 00:11:29 like auditioning and it's kind of like. You know
00:11:29 --> 00:11:31 a little nerve -racking because of like hey am
00:11:31 --> 00:11:34 I actually good enough to do this? Can I do this?
00:11:34 --> 00:11:37 Do I have enough skills to do it? And then on
00:11:37 --> 00:11:40 the inside of me because again, I am a producer
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43 I see the potential in where I'm going and in
00:11:43 --> 00:11:47 my mind its ideas all the time Right. It's ideas.
00:11:48 --> 00:11:50 How can I make this better? Oh, we can do xyz
00:11:50 --> 00:11:56 I see the potential for growth here What what
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 things or what programs or what things can I
00:11:58 --> 00:12:01 put in place? to advance this and then automatically
00:12:01 --> 00:12:03 it will come to me into my head like I'm I'll
00:12:03 --> 00:12:05 start writing it down I'll start jotting it down
00:12:05 --> 00:12:10 before even really taking or accepting this position
00:12:10 --> 00:12:13 it's it's kind of in me to see the potential
00:12:13 --> 00:12:17 and and come up with ideas and come up with vision
00:12:17 --> 00:12:20 so sometimes in pivoting you're pivoting because
00:12:20 --> 00:12:24 you have a lot of ideas for what's next and sometimes
00:12:24 --> 00:12:27 again where you are you've maxed it out like
00:12:27 --> 00:12:30 there's nothing else you can do There's there's
00:12:30 --> 00:12:32 nowhere else you can move like you've exhausted
00:12:32 --> 00:12:35 the relationship you you've exhausted the friendship
00:12:35 --> 00:12:38 You've exhausted the job you've done everything
00:12:38 --> 00:12:40 you could in that space for the season that you
00:12:40 --> 00:12:44 were allowed allowed to be in and I think it's
00:12:44 --> 00:12:47 like Ecclesiastes 3 and again we talked about
00:12:47 --> 00:12:49 this in another episode because y 'all been with
00:12:49 --> 00:12:51 me through a couple of different transitions
00:12:51 --> 00:12:55 in this podcast space and Okay, there's a time
00:12:55 --> 00:13:00 in a season for everything seasons stop end season
00:13:00 --> 00:13:04 start. Seasons don't really collide into each
00:13:04 --> 00:13:06 other all the time. There are certain things
00:13:06 --> 00:13:08 that are going to take place in the winter time.
00:13:08 --> 00:13:10 There are certain things that are going to take
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 place in the summertime. There are certain things
00:13:12 --> 00:13:15 that are going to take place in the springtime
00:13:15 --> 00:13:18 that don't take place during any other season,
00:13:18 --> 00:13:21 right? And in order for one season to start,
00:13:21 --> 00:13:22 another one has to end. So for some of you, you
00:13:22 --> 00:13:25 have to be okay with, hey, this is the end of
00:13:25 --> 00:13:27 this, but it's also the start of something else,
00:13:28 --> 00:13:30 right? Just because it's the end of this doesn't
00:13:30 --> 00:13:32 mean that I don't get to do anything else. I
00:13:32 --> 00:13:35 just have to make sure I close this verse, end
00:13:35 --> 00:13:37 this verse, so that way what's next for me can
00:13:37 --> 00:13:43 begin, right? And I'm excited about a lot of
00:13:43 --> 00:13:45 these pivots. Again, a lot of them are still
00:13:45 --> 00:13:49 in the works. A lot of them, you know, it's the
00:13:49 --> 00:13:52 end of summer in some of these situations. Like
00:13:52 --> 00:13:55 a lot of these pivots, it's the end of it. I
00:13:55 --> 00:13:58 can see the end of it. I see it's time to start
00:13:58 --> 00:14:00 bringing out the goodies in the sweatpants because
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 it's getting really, really cool in the morning,
00:14:02 --> 00:14:06 right? I see some of that transition in my life
00:14:06 --> 00:14:09 and some of the things I'm doing, so it's kind
00:14:09 --> 00:14:14 of like, hey, prepare to put it on, right? You
00:14:14 --> 00:14:15 know it's coming, you know the season's coming,
00:14:15 --> 00:14:19 you know it's ending. You know, don't go outside
00:14:19 --> 00:14:23 in the fall and it's too cool and you go outside
00:14:23 --> 00:14:24 like it's still summertime. You're gonna end
00:14:24 --> 00:14:29 up getting sick, right? Be careful how you transition
00:14:29 --> 00:14:32 don't transition trying to hold on to where you
00:14:32 --> 00:14:34 are now Because again, you can't potentially
00:14:34 --> 00:14:37 find yourself getting sick Because you didn't
00:14:37 --> 00:14:39 assess. Hey, this is a different season this
00:14:39 --> 00:14:45 And on so I'm I am Super super excited. I'm super
00:14:45 --> 00:14:48 super excited. Okay. We got seven shows that
00:14:48 --> 00:14:51 gonna be chimp act Perspective the podcast itself
00:14:51 --> 00:14:55 is making some really cool changes I got some
00:14:55 --> 00:14:58 guests that I have coming on this year or this
00:14:58 --> 00:15:03 season and We added the video element to it when
00:15:03 --> 00:15:06 I first started doing podcasting. I was really
00:15:06 --> 00:15:10 really scared about putting myself on video and
00:15:10 --> 00:15:15 Doing another podcast That's mainly video and
00:15:15 --> 00:15:18 is on YouTube kind of allowed me to find myself
00:15:18 --> 00:15:25 getting comfortable Doing these podcasts visual
00:15:25 --> 00:15:28 and audio. I said, hey man, let's bring it to
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 perspective and kind of see what happens with
00:15:30 --> 00:15:32 it. And so now perspective is you never seen
00:15:32 --> 00:15:34 my pretty face. Now you get to see my pretty
00:15:34 --> 00:15:39 face, all right? So I am super grateful, super
00:15:39 --> 00:15:41 humble that some of you are even coming back
00:15:41 --> 00:15:43 to listen. I know I've been gone for a year and
00:15:43 --> 00:15:45 it's like where you been, maybe where you not
00:15:45 --> 00:15:48 been, you don't care no more, you know, out of
00:15:48 --> 00:15:51 sight, out of mind. Well, I'm back, so get with
00:15:51 --> 00:15:54 the program, all right? We wanna make this particular
00:15:54 --> 00:15:59 podcast skyrocket. We want it to be an asset
00:15:59 --> 00:16:02 and a value to people who just wanna see things
00:16:02 --> 00:16:04 from different viewpoints. Sometimes life will
00:16:04 --> 00:16:08 make it look like everything's only one way,
00:16:08 --> 00:16:10 one direction. But your life has many dimensions
00:16:10 --> 00:16:13 to it. And again, that's part of pivoting. Anytime
00:16:13 --> 00:16:15 I hear the word pivot, I was thinking basketball.
00:16:16 --> 00:16:18 As a kid, I loved basketball. I played basketball
00:16:18 --> 00:16:22 and part of... Playing basketball is pivoting,
00:16:22 --> 00:16:25 right? When defenses come to you and they try
00:16:25 --> 00:16:29 to attack you, sometimes as a player, you can't
00:16:29 --> 00:16:32 just leave. You actually have to pivot so that
00:16:32 --> 00:16:36 way you can get a better view of the basket and
00:16:36 --> 00:16:38 the floor, right? You need to be able to see
00:16:38 --> 00:16:41 who's around you, what's around you, and then
00:16:41 --> 00:16:44 make decisions from there. So with pivoting,
00:16:44 --> 00:16:47 and I want to allude this also to life, pivoting
00:16:47 --> 00:16:51 allows you to stop, to create. to protect and
00:16:51 --> 00:16:54 find more options. All right? I say that again.
00:16:55 --> 00:16:59 Pivoting allows you to stop, to create, to protect
00:16:59 --> 00:17:04 and find more options. The overall goal is never
00:17:04 --> 00:17:06 changed. You're still trying to score. You're
00:17:06 --> 00:17:09 still trying to get to a certain goal, to a certain
00:17:09 --> 00:17:11 point in life. But pivoting allows you to stop,
00:17:12 --> 00:17:15 to create, to protect and to find more options.
00:17:15 --> 00:17:19 All right? And that's what we've done here. That's
00:17:19 --> 00:17:21 what I've done in my own personal life. That's
00:17:21 --> 00:17:23 what some of you may be going through. So don't
00:17:23 --> 00:17:26 don't feel like because you pivoted that you
00:17:26 --> 00:17:28 were a failure, that you didn't succeed. No,
00:17:29 --> 00:17:32 you maximize that season. Everything not supposed
00:17:32 --> 00:17:34 to happen in that season happened in that season.
00:17:35 --> 00:17:37 And you almost kind of have to settle that so
00:17:37 --> 00:17:39 that way you don't find yourself being a victim
00:17:39 --> 00:17:43 of self sabotage as if you don't have perseverance
00:17:43 --> 00:17:46 or as if you don't have the ability to succeed
00:17:46 --> 00:17:50 at things. You do keep working. pivot pivoting
00:17:50 --> 00:17:53 again is part of the game pivoting is part of
00:17:53 --> 00:17:56 basketball changing directions stopping is a
00:17:56 --> 00:18:00 part of the game it's part of the game so hey
00:18:00 --> 00:18:04 man pivoting is part of the game and um you know
00:18:04 --> 00:18:09 and for example um if anybody's familiar with
00:18:09 --> 00:18:10 the pivot the podcast and i'm not going to talk
00:18:10 --> 00:18:12 too much about them because they're not giving
00:18:12 --> 00:18:14 us a chance but if y 'all you know y 'all want
00:18:14 --> 00:18:17 to work with us call me i'm always available
00:18:17 --> 00:18:24 uh but When they started the pivot, Channing,
00:18:24 --> 00:18:28 Fred and Ryan came from another athletic podcast.
00:18:28 --> 00:18:32 They had maximized their season, maximize that
00:18:32 --> 00:18:34 opportunity with that particular podcast. Then
00:18:34 --> 00:18:37 the opportunity came about for them to create
00:18:37 --> 00:18:40 the pivot. Why? Because they pivoted or pivoted.
00:18:40 --> 00:18:47 Right. And now they became a huge success on
00:18:47 --> 00:18:51 YouTube. I think. almost even bypassing the first
00:18:51 --> 00:18:56 podcast they were on. And once Ryan lost his
00:18:56 --> 00:19:02 job with ESPN, the podcast and Ryan again pivoted
00:19:02 --> 00:19:05 again. They went from just being on YouTube to
00:19:05 --> 00:19:08 now signing a deal with Netflix because Netflix
00:19:08 --> 00:19:11 is picking up shows. And, you know, I want to
00:19:11 --> 00:19:14 be on Netflix. I Netflix. Can you help me get
00:19:14 --> 00:19:17 to Netflix, please? I want one of the Netflix
00:19:17 --> 00:19:20 checks, all right? I want my face next to, you
00:19:20 --> 00:19:22 know, a Madea movie or something. Y 'all help
00:19:22 --> 00:19:25 me make that work, all right? Let's make this
00:19:25 --> 00:19:28 happen, all right? But again, it's pivoting.
00:19:28 --> 00:19:30 They went from one place to one place to one
00:19:30 --> 00:19:34 place. And again, it allowed them to stop, to
00:19:34 --> 00:19:37 create, to assess, and to make better decisions.
00:19:38 --> 00:19:41 It allowed them to stop, to create, to protect,
00:19:41 --> 00:19:43 and to find more options, right? And that's what
00:19:43 --> 00:19:46 life is about. Everything isn't going to be a
00:19:46 --> 00:19:48 straight line. There's never not going to be
00:19:48 --> 00:19:51 trouble. There's never not going to be forces
00:19:51 --> 00:19:53 that are up against you for certain things that
00:19:53 --> 00:19:56 you're trying to do. And just learn to pivot,
00:19:58 --> 00:20:00 man. Learn to pivot. Be confident in your pivot.
00:20:02 --> 00:20:04 And once you learn how to do it, man, you'll
00:20:04 --> 00:20:07 find that you're able to be an all -around better
00:20:07 --> 00:20:11 player at this thing called life. You'll find
00:20:11 --> 00:20:14 out that, hey, I know how to do these things.
00:20:14 --> 00:20:17 It comes with maturity. It comes with a developed
00:20:17 --> 00:20:21 IQ. So, pivot. Don't be afraid to pivot. Pivoting
00:20:21 --> 00:20:26 is okay. So, what is next for perspective? I'm
00:20:26 --> 00:20:29 coming back. Don't worry. Matter of fact, I'm
00:20:29 --> 00:20:31 probably coming back, not next week, but we're
00:20:31 --> 00:20:34 going back to our every other week schedule.
00:20:36 --> 00:20:43 But I want you very soon to go to Instagram,
00:20:43 --> 00:20:48 to Facebook, TikTok, and follow the Viewpoints
00:20:48 --> 00:20:52 with a Z, Viewpoints Podcast Network. There you're
00:20:52 --> 00:20:55 going to see all of our shows. You're going to
00:20:55 --> 00:21:00 see content from all of our shows. When you go
00:21:00 --> 00:21:04 to Apple Podcasts, we are going to have a network
00:21:04 --> 00:21:08 page where you can see a layout of every single
00:21:08 --> 00:21:13 show we have. And I am excited. We got a little
00:21:13 --> 00:21:15 bit of everything for everybody. If you like
00:21:15 --> 00:21:18 inspiration and mental health, we got a podcast
00:21:18 --> 00:21:21 for that. We got two podcasts for the ladies.
00:21:22 --> 00:21:26 Hey, we got a podcast for y 'all. For the brothers,
00:21:26 --> 00:21:28 we got something for y 'all. On the spiritual
00:21:28 --> 00:21:31 side, if you're looking for something that allows
00:21:31 --> 00:21:35 you to find a way to deepen your relationship
00:21:35 --> 00:21:38 with Jesus Christ, we got something for you over
00:21:38 --> 00:21:43 there. I got something for the kids, man. And
00:21:43 --> 00:21:47 I got a kids, well, long story short, I started
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 a podcast for my daughter. So I got a kids podcast
00:21:50 --> 00:21:55 too. So go check that out. We got a little bit
00:21:55 --> 00:22:00 of everything, right? And it's highlighting our
00:22:00 --> 00:22:02 young African -American voices, some voices that,
00:22:03 --> 00:22:04 again, some of you know, some of you may not
00:22:04 --> 00:22:07 know, but it allows them to share their content
00:22:07 --> 00:22:12 and share their stories in a space that allows
00:22:12 --> 00:22:15 them to connect with the world and connect with
00:22:15 --> 00:22:17 everybody who may have some of the stories or
00:22:17 --> 00:22:19 want to learn how to break through just like
00:22:19 --> 00:22:22 they broke through. So we're everywhere. We're
00:22:22 --> 00:22:25 going to be everywhere. Look out for our complete
00:22:25 --> 00:22:29 release as a network, probably in November. And
00:22:29 --> 00:22:33 I can't wait, man. It's going to be a ride. It's
00:22:33 --> 00:22:39 going to be fun. And don't forget to pivot. Don't
00:22:39 --> 00:22:41 be afraid to pivot. Don't be scared to pivot.
00:22:42 --> 00:22:46 Make pivots. Pivots are important. to who you
00:22:46 --> 00:22:48 are, what you're called to do in life, because
00:22:48 --> 00:22:52 pivots allow you to stop, to create, to protect,
00:22:52 --> 00:22:55 and to find more options. All right, I love y
00:22:55 --> 00:23:00 'all. Make sure you like, share, and subscribe.
00:23:00 --> 00:23:03 I almost forgot I do this. Like, share, subscribe,
00:23:03 --> 00:23:08 and then when everything is unveiled, follow
00:23:08 --> 00:23:11 me on the 3Point Podcast Network, all right?
00:23:11 --> 00:23:14 I love y 'all. I will see y 'all really, really
00:23:14 --> 00:23:16 soon. Peace and love.