Dr. Billy Alsbrooks Motivation | The Power of Routines and Going Inside the Mind of a Champion

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Speaker 1:
On today’s show, we interviewed dr Billy Alz Brooks, who’s an expert in the field of motivation and on today’s show he shares the power of routines, the necessity of routines, and why all super successful people have a daily routine. And on today’s show we take a look inside the mind of the rise and grind, a super successful people. He shares with us how to write a book, importance of self discipline and the power of speaking, hope, joy and love over yourself and others. If you are looking for just a little extra motivation, this is the show for

Speaker 2:
You. Your mouth is the creative weapon.

Speaker 3:
It’s not a tool for distributing excuses. The first sign of a loser, it’s an excuse. Champions take full responsibility, good or bad for their outcomes. Tell the world one time what you’re going to do and that’s it. Spend less time talking and more time grinding. Billy,

Speaker 5:
Yes, yes and yes. Thrive nation. On today’s show we are interviewing dr Billy all’s Brooks, the motivational guru who so many of our clients have

Speaker 1:
Told me about dr Millie. Welcome out to the thrive time show. How,

Speaker 2:
How are you sir?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Thank you for having brothers on and to be here. I really appreciate you bringing me on the show, man. We started from the bottom. Now we here.

Speaker 2:
Yes you are an anomaly and for people out there that I want to just figure it out who you are or have a sample of who you are. What is the YouTube video? If there was one video that you would direct our listeners to go check out cause you produce amazing content, great motivational stuff. What is one video that you’d recommend our listeners who should, should check out?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I would say inside the mind of a champion inside the amount of that, that best song sums up me and the inner the inner makeup that I, that I project I think inside the mind of a champion. That’s the one that kind of me on the map as well

Speaker 2:
Going inside cause it’s inside the mind of a champion and for people out there, I don’t want make sure I play some of the audio at the end of the shows. They can hear it. Talk to me about your process for producing your content cause it is ethic.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Well I, I never actually know how I’m going to get to, you know, to the ending of a piece that I’m working on. But I just know I’m going to get there. God would give me a little PC, a little [inaudible].

Speaker 2:
I’ll connect with a piece of music

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And then the poetry starts flowing and then by the time I’m done, I’m like, how did they even get written? And I just, what I do is I just feel my mouth. I use yields in my mind. I use my creative abilities to God and just let him work through me. And I noticed as long as I yield to that, there’s, there’s usually no struggle. If I tried to do my own thing, that’s usually when I get myself in trouble. So I just have to get out of the way and let God use use what he put in me to do what he has called me to do. So that’s the kind of the process that I go through. Man.

Speaker 2:
What was your background, I mean T tell us your, your story from starting from the bottom. Now you’re here. I mean wha where did you, what was life like growing up for you?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I was born in a small town in Alabama. Stay there till by eight, nine years old. The recession hit in the early eighties. Work dried up. So my parents we moved to Dallas, Dallas, Texas. I went out middle school their first year of high school there. Then my mother got transferred down to South Florida. So I basically would say I grew up really down there in South Florida. That was really the turning point where I started to growing and step into what I’m doing now. My, my early years were built around three things, really music for one, my mother and father were both, both musicians. My mother has a master’s degree. I’m still teaches music lessons today. My father who’s passed away now, but he was in the Alabama music hall of fame as a studio musician in fame recording studios, a little famous studio there in Alabama.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So everything that I did, I grew up, you know, just all immersed in music, not my grandmother owned a music store. So we every dad go down there and she’d babysit me, things like that. And I just heard me that the whole, you know, whole day from the moment I got up to the moment I went to sleep. And so music played a big role in my upbringing. The second thing would be martial arts. My father got me a martial arts when I was around five years old. So I got to see what discipline was supposed to look like, what being a champion meant, and got around some really, really superb teachers at the time. And they didn’t just teach them about martial arts, but taught me about life and those things stuck with me throughout. So I said that is a critical role in my life.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And, and the Thursday was alcoholism. I grew up, my, my father was a good, good man, but he struggled in glimpse into alcohol. As did he. And all my uncles and grandparents, things like that, they, alcohol just ran on that side of his family. So I started to struggle of that over and over and over each and every day when I got up. So those things, those are the things right there really impacted my journey, brought me to where I am today. Those were the foundational core core things that impacted me when I was around 15 years old when I was in high school. That’s when I started pursuing them. You know, actually getting on the mic and writing songs and, and doing my own thing, stepping into my own creativity. So it was around 15 years old when I started doing music.

Speaker 1:
How have you been able to stay sober when that’s been something that, you know, your family’s fought for years?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I saw enough somewhere along the line I just said, this is not going to happen to me cause I mean it was really, really bad and I just saw my dad and, and I said, you know, I don’t, I don’t want this life. I don’t want this like this. You know? And most people either go one or two ways. They either, you know, become just like, you know, the parents that struggle with the addiction or they completely have nothing to do with it. And me, I had completely nothing to do with it. It just, you know, I never gave into that, that lifestyle never got started really. I mean, I dabbled a little bit in high school, but it was always in the back of my mind. This is one of the no family. We’ve got to break this cycle. And I used to tell my dad all the time, I’m gonna break this, like I’m gonna break the sec, I’m going to break the cycle.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And you know, I didn’t have anything to do with it. But on the flip side of that, when I was doing music, how was one of the biggest promoters of that lifestyle? You know, I come as far as music. I was in the thug life and you know, the drugs, the gangs and all of that, that was my main theme of all my music. So it’s kind of ironic that they, I didn’t touch drugs or doing it at bus shows, you know, the biggest mouthpiece is going out there and promoting it. So now I’m on the opposite end of that spectrum. So you gotta give me a gift. The gift was speaking and articulating you know, creativity. He gave me the gift and whenever God gives you a gift, the enemy off on those who have that gift and who struggled to steal that gift them to get you to use that gift that God gave you, use it for his purposes and plans.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So for the first stage of my life, I was using my gifts. You know, there was supposed to be for good, I was using it for destruction. So when death and destruction over over the people that were listening to my music man, so now I’m very, very aggressive with what I do. But on the positive stuff, I’m trying to go back and get these guys off the street, get them off the drugs, get them out of that lifestyle and I’m so licensed to them, man. So, you know, I kind of got to see both sides of it. It was a gift, you know, to be able to see the people in that lifestyle. So now, but when I’m out here trying to make the impact, I know where they’re coming from so I can reach them a little bit better. But the definitely the devil definitely had me, you know, the first days of my life using my mouth for his plan.

Speaker 1:
What, what do you think about Kanye West’s new album? Jesus has King and his overall a major change in his life?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Man, I love it. It’s all bringing God glory and he’s definitely doing that. You know, I don’t know him personally, man, but he’s bringing God glory, bring attention to the kingdom man. And that’s what it’s all about impacting lives. And I’m, I just pray that he continued to, you know, do what God has put in him and continue to impact people all across the globe. And the world right now is in a dark time and they need hope. And I know God is gonna raise people up like Kanye to get out of here and do what needs to be done to bring this thing back into, you know, to order.

Speaker 1:
Okay. Can you explain what you do now? Cause if I, if I, if I had to describe you to people, they say, what is dr Billy Alz Brooks do? I would say you, you, there’s four things. Discipline, gospel, scripture, you know, martial arts and hip hop music. I’d say discipline that the whole gospel teaching martial arts and hip hop music. But can you explain what you do now and how you actually make money?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I would say the best way to describe it as a motivational artist, I use, you know, the music, I use poetry, I use personal development teaching. I use scripture passion and fire that, you know, that I have for what I do. I package that up in a way that impacts people. That’s my goal is to impact positively 1 billion people. So whatever way it is, whether it is doing songs, whether it’s doing motivational speaking, whether it’s doing live events, whether it’s writing books, whatever it is you know, I use the creativity in a way that it’s positive, it’s uplifting and some type of form.

Speaker 1:
What kind of microphone do you use?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Man, I actually got like an MXL [inaudible]

Speaker 1:
Night.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Yeah. But I, I had that mic for almost, almost 15 years in music. I used it and it never let me down. So man, I never, never changed it. Kinda gave me my own sound. So I just didn’t stray from it. I mean, I’ve recorded on all different kinds of Mike. The one that I use consistently is just some cheap million on dollar Mike, which you would never imagine. But sometimes it’s the little things like that that separates you to give you a little different sound. They give you something different and everyone you know, is doing it. If my mom used to live is not broke, don’t fix it. So it works for me, man. I just stuck with it.

Speaker 1:
In what way? What microphone is that again?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
It’s an MXL. It’s like a $99 Mike man. It’s, it’s nothing fancy, you know? It’s not the Newman’s you know, AKG anything like that. It’s just a, a $99 because this a Mike man, but he just never let me down, man.

Speaker 1:
And what what recording software do you use?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I use pro tools. I’ve been using, you know, my music days back in 2001, 2002. I, I jumped on that when they started making the transition over from analog to digital. And from then on I’ve just been using that. [inaudible] Has never let me down.

Speaker 1:
What I’m going to do is I’m going to cue up a little bit of an audio from a of of one of your tracks and I’d like for you to share what this is about. Okay, so this first one is called unstoppable. This appeared on your YouTube channel. Doctor Billy Alz Brooks motivation channel. I’m going to hit play and just play about 30 seconds of it. You can tell us what the old, what the whole 40 minute production is about. Here we go. This is the innocent, funny of greatness. The Epic soundtrack of success.

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I was born, I was raised the team, I got champion in my blood line. I’ve always been a Chet. I will always be it. When I close my eyes and tire will be in sin. Oh my headstone, they will write shit. Every time they mention my name, they will say [inaudible] my legacy is chip. My obituary will read sip. Every time they mention my name, they will say, because I am at stab you.

Speaker 1:
What inspired you to put that together and what, what are you trying to convey there? And this particular 40 minute production.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
That’s a product of the struggle. At that point in my life, I began to awaken to who I am now. The motivational speaking I was in, I’ve been in music business for 17 years. Then I had this, what I call the seven year war. The wield in this world was fighting panic attacks and lost everything in my life. Then I came out of that and I was trying to find myself, you know, the new me, like who was me now after all the struggles and, and all the, the losses, who was the new me. And I began to step into motivational speaking. My book had just been written, but nothing on the outside of my life was reflecting that which was on the inside. And it was a constant battle to keep going, to keep moving. And the story behind that message there is actually had a little confrontation with my wife.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
She was kind of kind of conveying to me that I needed to, you know, get with reality, what am I getting under five? And why don’t I be just like everyone else and, and things like that and didn’t really understand the depth of the dream that I had at that moment. And I kept seeing this thing in my mind like, no, I, I meant for more than that. I meant for more. There’s something more in me. I got to connect to what I’m doing every single day. I can’t just train my passion in for a paycheck. But like I said, the things on the outside, nothing in the world was reflecting that dream. And it was very, very frustrating because I knew I had more and it just wasn’t showing up in my life, you know, reflecting and we had this verbal compensation when they, so I went in, went into my studio just mad.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I was at this crossword you crossroad to the left, the nine to five you know, average existence, living under limitations, doing something that I didn’t enjoy, you know, maybe having one day off a week or on the right was the unlimited the things God has promised, the dreams, the freedom, the liberation, the financial, prostate, all that stuff was on the right. And it was like, which 1:00 AM I going to choose? And I was so close to giving up because things just weren’t happening and just things weren’t reflected, you know, the inside. And then I began to into maybe I am just crazy. So when I went into the studio, they had put on some music and I said, I’ve got to remind myself right now of who I am, my true identity. So I began just to speak these things, man. And then they just started coming off my off my tongue, out of my mouth.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And then I just started to connect to it and just kept getting deeper and deeper and deeper. And I call it the innocent, but because it’s what’s going on in my head, you hear the battle between the enemy saying, you know, you really believe all that stuff you’re saying and then I’ll talk back to, you know, it’s like that was what was going on in my mind at the time. And, and it really resonated with me. I really connected to that, that that piece, I never expected me to do what it did. I was just really doing it for my own encouragement, my own inspiration. I needed to anchor myself to something cause I was about to lose the drink. And the craziest thing about it was, you know, at the time I put that out, I didn’t have any followers that I might have had 200 followers on YouTube at the time.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And most of that was my family, what it was listening to me. But I put that video out and the craziest thing happened, some motivational channels got ahold of some big stations. No, they had no massive followers. They’d put it out. And next thing you know, that thing went viral. Got millions of plays and my book started selling and is this sold in 27 countries. Now, man, my whole career began to take off from that video. So there’s a scripture says, death and life from the power of the tongue. Those that love us shall eat the food stare up. And it is so true cause I began to speak my identity. I begin to speak success with that track and everything on the outside of the world begin to bow down to what I was conveying and projected and everything in my life pivoted and changed. After doing that video.

Speaker 2:
You are, are you familiar with Charles COE law? Have you heard named Charles Cola?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Not right off top. No. Right off top.

Speaker 2:
If you get a chance today, this is something that you could share with your incredible wife or share with yourself or maybe you just a little bonus for you, a little bonus gift here for you. One of my clients, Charles Cola is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, I’m using the word very, a lot physically fit person. And he also owns a massive chain of big box gyms. It’s called Cola fitness.com. It’s a, it’s a Christian owned gym. Kelika Chick-Filet meets a planet fitness and he loves your stuff and he is jacked and he listens to you every morning. Like every morning he works out to your stuff. So he had a couple of questions for, for you. He said in chapter one of your book, blessed and unstoppable. The, the, the book, the, the chapter of the book is called detox. Emotionally. Can you explain what that means to detox yourself emotionally? For, for all the listeners out there,

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Most people are probably familiar with the detoxing of the body, the things that we eat and stuff that we need to clean our body out and put it back in its original state of balance. But a lot of times we forget that the real poison in us is the bitterness, the jealousy, the anger, the resentment, pain, the things that we are stuffing down the inside of our emotional state. And we live through our emotional state. So everything that we do comes through that filter. So if you want to go through the highest levels of success, you’ve got to start on the inside first and you’ve got to lay the foundation for it. And the best way to do that is to let go of the past. You know, you cannot go into the promised land that God has given us carrying every wrong and every transgression done to us.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
We cannot carry that into the promised land. The door is too narrow. We have to let it go. There’s an old saying, you know, the, the lighter the weight, the higher the lift. So if you get the inside right, that’s half the battle right there. That’s half the battle. So step one in my book is the detox emotionally. It’s letting go of the bitterness, letting go with the angels and the resentments and the wrong and the things that we suppress all day long, and letting go of that and choose me a greater freedom, choosing to be blessed and unstoppable. And the only way to really go to those next levels of success is to let this stuff go. Because many times we’ll get success. But if we haven’t dealt with the inside successful actually turn on us and destroy us. So it’s one of the critical steps, you know, that I put in the book and I put it number one because it’s that important, we have to get the inside right first.

Speaker 1:
You also have said that success is the accumulation of the right thoughts humbly and consistently walked out. How many years were you recording YouTube videos and putting up content before you could finally make it a sustainable monetized thing, you know, where your passion actually produced a profit for you.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Well, you know, there’s two, there’s two phases. There’s, when I was doing music and doing YouTube and it was very in its early stages and then there was, when I got into motivation as far as doing what I’m doing now, motivation wise, it was about a year in, but my, my income did not necessarily the major source of my income did not come from the mutual that came from what the YouTube vehicle allowed me to do. The platform allow me to do was to get my book out there to get me bookings so that I could go out and convey my message. And it also promoted my other platforms, you know, Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, the motivational albums the social media that, you know, built the network and built the following that I can get up every single day and try to make an impact.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So I didn’t just look at it from streaming, I tried to see it from different angles, you know, just, you know, streaming is one the prom, but what other income could I bring into the equation that would offset why wound growing, why I’m, you know, coming up the ladder. So my closing line that was a big play in that too cause I started out with the books and then I introduced the clothing line. The clothing line is really doing well now and now the streaming revenue is actually beginning to catch up for the other sources too. But I didn’t just focus just on like, well you’ve got to get this streaming cause they know you’ve got to go out of use and a lot of followers in order to live off of that, you know, at least that’s the kind of lifestyle that I wanted to live.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So I knew I had to do some other things and I just brought entreprenuer as a mentor and said, how can I add some value? And if you want money, whatever it is, you start with value. Most people start with money. You gotta start with value cause money chases value. You said, how can I take the things that I learned, the passions that, that I’m an AMA with. How can I package this in some kind of way that adds value to people? And if you do that, the money will follow. When I got into motivational speaking, it wasn’t for the money. I didn’t even think of it as a career. I just love personal development. I just love the champion mindset, entrepreneurs and leasing. I just loved it. And and then it collided with music, which I was already connecting to. And the poetry.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I just got in it for the love and woke up one day I was like, Whoa, this thing could be something, you know, massive. I began every day to wake up to myself and once I started waking up, then I started saying, okay, this is something I want to do every single day of my life. So now I need to figure out ways to add value, but to bring those income streams in. So some people out there, listen right now, you know, you might be concerned with the money aspect, but start with the value. If you add value, money will come. Stoking money will find you. Don’t put the money first, put the fire, the passion, the things that you love, and then wrap those passions into a way that adds value. And that money would come.

Speaker 2:
Dr dr Billy off, for people out there who want to know your educational background, what, what was kinda your, your education or are you, are you self-taught? Did you go to formal education? Have you done a little bit of both because you are a definitely a source of wisdom.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I get a little bit of both, you know high school. I probably underachieved cause I was focused on my rent Curry. So the only thing I really did in class was just write poetry, write run-ins. You know, I could’ve done so much more in high school. I just didn’t commit and dedicate myself through it. When I got out of high school, I went to the art Institute studying music and video business. I went and got the degree in that and know it kind of helped me there in the, in the music industry. When my life began to change and you know, as far as the knowledge part was 2001 up until this point I really didn’t do any kind of self taught or any kind of, you know, reading on my own where it was, you know, I didn’t have to be forced to, to read something.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
But around 2001, I got ahold of Robert Kiyosaki’s rich dad, poor dad, and he talked about self education and learning the things that the schools don’t teach us and why we struggle in, you know, every problem is just a wisdom problem. So I bought incident book and that whole philosophy and I began to immerse myself into reading every single day from like 2001 on. I would go to the bookstore two or three hours a day and just read. I bring my notebook in there and started taking notes. Every day I’d go in and I grabbed three or four different types of books. Like I go in in one day and grabbed spiritual something on business and entrepreneurial-ism something on history, something on a biography of, you know, a great man or woman or whatever. And I’d just sit down and put my alarm on the phone, 20 minutes, 30 minutes each.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And I’d read a little bit from each book and I just take notes. And I did it for years before I even got into what I’m doing now. And now looking back, I realized it was really just all preparation for what I was doing. Cause I used to tell my mom like I’m reading all this stuff and I feel like there’s something in me, but I just don’t know what I’m doing it for a while I’m doing it, but I just know that it’s connected to something. I just hadn’t discovered it and now it all makes sense looking back. But at the time and I just really, really loved, you know, wisdom and knowledge and never saw a career in doing this, anything like this,

Speaker 1:
You know, I just went into the bookstore to learn. How did you support yourself financially while you’re building up your, your platform where you were eating ramen noodles or what were you doing?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Well, I’m in the music business. I had multiple businesses. I had CD stores no radio revenue producing revenue and things like that. When my father died in front of me it triggered PTSD and panic attacks and me and I went through a war for seven years.

Speaker 1:
What happened? What happened?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Had a stroke, got a blood clot. And I felt the last 10 minutes of his life, man, it was, it was unexpected and it just really rocked me at the core, same woman and he’s fine and two minutes later he’s gone. And it just really rotten at the core cause you know, just wasn’t expecting it and the trumps the trauma from it just took over my mind. You know, I went from being on stage in front of 20,000 people rapping to being in my bedroom for two weeks at a time, not wanting to come out cause I was scared of going, have another panic attack. So for the next seven years, that was my life. It literally consumed the candidate, drag consumes everything I had these businesses running. But you know, I was kind of the main piece of the business and so they all suffered because I wasn’t really able to be there full time and really oversee them.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
But but hadn’t been read Robert Kiyosaki, it saved me because I did have these other income streams that weren’t necessarily tied to me being there 24, seven, they did suffer cause I wasn’t there. Like I could have been, but they did support me during that time that I was sick. You know, I put a lot of money up before I got sick. So the seven years is kinda like a death by a thousand cuts every day. I got up and just got squeezed a little bit more. My finances went down a little bit more. My music career was, was fading out because I couldn’t do that because was sick. And I woke up one day and I, I had lost everything. Everything I had built, I’m like, it’s gone. You know, I still had the businesses, but I really wasn’t connected to them anymore.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So as far as this right here, I started the transformation over from that world into this world. And the first transformation was I had seen stores that were, I, I turned those any stores into cell phone accessory stores, which I called blessed mobile. That was when I began to make the change coming out of the destruction and to try to do something positive. And those businesses kept me going as I was writing my book. I wrote the book before I started doing motivational speaking. So I wrote the book and in around 2000 when the book was finally done, I sold all the other businesses and I just said, I don’t know what, what you want from me, God, but I’m just going to step out here and faith and just pursue this thing that you put on the inside of me.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And I had still had no woken, some motivational speaking, being the calling. I just had a book and that was it. That was it. I just book, I left everything I knew, sold the businesses in 2017 and said, okay, you’re on your own. God, show me what to do. And I think it was April, March or April of 2017 is when I put that inside the mind of a champion out. And then things began to move in that direction. I woke up to who I was and I always had the entrepreneurial mindset that the Kiyosaki had assaulted me and his reading man. So I’ve tried to everything and I just brought it into doing the motivational. I was like, okay, this is very similar to what I did in music. The YouTube channel is just like when I was rapping, I had my own radio show.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So, okay, it’s the same. And then what did I do back in the day when I wrapped okay on my radio show, I pushed my clothing line, I pushed my music. Okay, let me just do that over here on YouTube. So I just took the same kind of formula that I had in music and just brought it over to the positive and I’m just built a brand that way. So I kinda, I guess I kind of had a jump start because I had the knowledge of going through this prior with the music business. So it might’ve been a little bit easy on the second go around cause I made a whole lot of mistakes in music. And my goal basically in this was to not make the same mistakes. It’s okay to make mistakes, just don’t make it twice. So when I got into this, I just kind of used the things that I knew worked over there and just tried to figure out how they applied to this.

Speaker 2:
Dr Billy. I have the, the man, the myth, the Charles COE law inside the studio here. Charles Cole, I told, I told dr Billy that you and your wife have built a chain of, of gyms that you guys own. You have a three big box gyms. It’s kinda like the planet fitness meets Chick-fil-A. You’ve got the, he’s got one in Topeka, one in Joplin, you’ve got one in Bartlesville. You’ve got one coming out here soon in Oklahoma city in Arlington. I told him that you listened to his stuff often and while Paul pump an iron, the floor is yours to ask dr Billy, dr Billy, meet Charles Cola. Super Billy.

Speaker 7:
Hey, thank you so much. You’ve been such an inspiration to me and my wife, Amber. Amber,

Speaker 2:
Oh so many times. Billy can’t thank you enough for what you do. Yeah, you have got an awesome,

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Appreciate it. I appreciate it.

Speaker 7:
Yes, we are. Our slogan is at our gym is to make Jesus famous and change lives. And you are definitely doing that on all your YouTube videos. And I have been super inspired by your heart to help others, encourage others and love on others. Super awesome. It definitely makes a difference for me and a lot of other people. I’m sure

Speaker 2:
Our boy Charles is Jack. He was a, he was, he didn’t, we worked out like once every month for like two 50. How much do you weigh and how big are you just so he knows he’s going to Google you.

Speaker 7:
I’m about to two 55 to two 60 right now. About six foot.

Speaker 2:
Aw, my cooking. Unbelievable. Okay. So Charles, what questions would you have here for dr Billy? We’re going to go rapid fire. Well

Speaker 7:
Basically I just, first off I want to say thank you. You’re awesome and all that stuff. And then you know just writing a book. I had been trying to start writing a book. We’re about to get a little book finished. And so what got you into writing that book and how did you do that with writing that book, that blessing?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I’ve been writing songs, you know, my whole life doing poetry and, and in the music aspect of it. And when I got out of music, I missed the creativity. I missed being able to express myself in. God, I started putting the vision in me around 2009 or 10 for the book. And I furthered with it several times, you know, I’d start, you know, write a couple of pages and then stop and read a couple of pages. And, and around the end of 15, it really started, the drums really started beating louder inside. Like, you need to do this, you need to do this, you need to do is, and I started writing around 2015 and I wrote very passionate in the very beginning. I wrote like a hundred pages, just like something myself into it. And then one day I got up for some reason and I looked at the scoreboard and I said, you know, this book is going to be around 300 pages and you’ve been doing this every single day, all day, everyday, you know, and a hundred pages.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
You never want to get to the end of this thing. And by looking at the scoreboard, I took my eyes off the process and focus and started, you know, putting them in other places and got disclosed. And I actually quit. I said, there’s no way I’m going to finish the book. And I actually stopped. And it was about two to three months went by and I completely given up the dream or it. And a friend of mine had sent me an email not regarding the book I was writing, but there was a messaging and then God wanted me to see. And it was an interview with the Stephen King and the guy who wrote game of Thrones, they were on a book tour. And the guy from game of Thrones, that Stephen King, he’s like, how do you put out so many books, like every three to four months of putting out a book?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
He’s like, he takes me nine months to write a chapter. How do you do it? And the thing that stuck with me, Stephen King said, every day I get up and I write three to five pages. That’s all I do. I don’t focus on the book, I don’t do any of that. I just focus on getting off and writing for three to five pages, not critiquing my work, not judging it, anything like that. I did get up and write, you know, and, and in 30 days I’ve got between 90 pages and 150 pages in three months time, I got a full book. Then we’d go back and you know, and edit and things like that. I just get up and write every single day. And I know if I do that every single day, the books would take care of itself. So that really stuck with me and I’m like, okay, that’s where I went wrong.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I looked at, you know, the, the three and 400 pages instead of just looking at the process. So I got up and started writing, you know, writing in that, that shape and fashion and within two to three months I had the book done and I actually put that quote on the very front of my book to remind myself of that because it applies to everything. It’s a success as a marathon of consistency walked out one day at a time. So that’s what I do. I just get up every single day and, and focus on the process, knowing if I take care of the process, the points will eventually show up on the school.

Speaker 2:
That’s great. Dr bill, I want to ask you, how do you organize the first four hours of every day and what time do you wake up? Like what, what time do you wake up and what are the first four hours look like?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I don’t mean depends that you know, I’m on a creative schedule sometimes and then I’m on the actual speaking fields or other times if I’m out on the tour on the road, I get up on a more earlier schedule eight or nine in the morning when I have to do a speaking events. When I’m on the creative schedule, which is my old music said to when I go in the studio to write, I like to do that at night when there’s less distraction, nobody up and I stay up sometimes five or six in the morning and just grinding in the studio to myself. No, the phone doesn’t ring, no ones who serve in and I’ve just lost, you know, in the creative aspect of it. But my daily routine on a, on a normal day I always anchor these things regardless. First thing I do is I pour motivation into me.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I get up every single day. I’ve got a few messages that I play. There are just powerful affirmation Christian base. And I just get up there and just connect with that over and over while I’m taking a shower. I Blair this stuff. The next thing I do is I read Proverbs before I leave the house, I read one chapter of Proverbs every single day I sit down with Solomon, the greatest man who ever lived, the wisest man who ever lived and stood underneath him and listened to his knowledge. In each chapter. I read one chapter a day, there’s 31 chapters. So each one goes by. I read the whole thing of properties that’s really helped me in my life. The third thing is I read every single day. So when I usually go to lunch, I go to a restaurant. Most of the time I go out cause I like to be around people and I associate that time as my reading time.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I anchor that. Okay. While I’m eating, I’m going to dedicate this 30, 45 minutes to, to gain a knowledge. So I read every single day. And then after working, you know, after doing the reading that I go work out, I’ll put my workout in and then after that I start whatever needs to be done. But I anchor my day around those things every single day. Those are things that do not change. At the end of the day, what I do is I go out what I call for a prayer walk. I do this every night, 30 to 30 minutes to an hour. I walk around my neighborhood by myself in the peace and the quiet walk down to the river and I just get connected to my make and the Victor’s established in our longtime regard and now I make sure every single day I don’t, you know, lose where I came from and don’t forget who put me here and why me. So I go out and connect with my maker every single day. I anchor everything else around those like that. I don’t, those are non negotiable things, those things there, either if I’m on the road or not, I still make sure that I have those things in my daily routine.

Speaker 2:
Dr Billy, I know Amber colo has a question for you, but before she answers her question, I’m going to ask you, is there so many entrepreneurs out there, and I get very passionate about this because I want to, I want to hug our listeners and then secretly pull out a taser gun and just eh, eh, and just not stop until they get it. People can not seem to grasp the idea and I know our can, but other people, every, every billionaire I’ve interviewed, every multimillionaire I’ve interviewed has a routine. It’s different for every person. Yes, but they do not check their smartphone or respond to endless mindless distractions until they get their stuff done. And we live in a world of perpetual distraction. Now, action gets you closer to your goal. Distraction takes you further away from your goal. What would you say to somebody if you really cared about them?

Speaker 2:
They’re a good buddy of yours and they say, I know a routine works for you, sir. I know a routine works for a Wolfgang puck who we’ve had on our show. I know routines work for John Maxwell, who we’ve had on our show. I know routines worked for pastor Craig Rochelle, who we’ve had on our show. I know routines work well for everyone, but you guys have ever had on the show. But for me, I like to get up and just kind of see what happens. What would you say to somebody out there who’s fighting against routine?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Well, determine success and pretty much always rooted. As you mentioned, every, all the grace that I’ve studied, they all had some kind of routine. You just see, get away from it. I mean, anywhere you look, if you look in sports, you look in business, you look in ministry, you look in health, fitness, whatever. It’s a routine. You know, that’s what we do every single day. Eventually we become so, you know, you have not to decide what kind of life do you want to live. You know, there’s average on the left, mediocre, useless on the left and greatness on the right. You get up every day and choose which one of those you want to live, you know, and, and the routines, the discipline, the daily anchors, those are the things that produce greatness. You know, there’s certain things you just cannot get away from. And once you make that choice, it’s a lot easier to have those routines.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
But some people just hadn’t made that choice yet. You know, they made a choice or at least made a choice to the wrong side. There’s so much potential in them, but they just haven’t decided that they want to pursue that yet. And the daily routine is definitely critical. I learned this back in when I was little doing martial arts, I won the junior Olympics, I was national champion. I went to the junior Olympics and tree with those guys and then I got the benefit of training under the Libyans. They were going to be in the 1988 Olympics. Martial arts was in, in, into the Olympics in 1988 when it was held in, in Korea. So I got to see what the Olympic athletes and what they were, what their daily routine look like. And I came home and mimicked it before I went to school.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I’d get up two hours before school. My daddy would have me stretching doing kicks and informs early in the morning. And then I used to hate it, but when I go to these timers, I’d wiped the floor with these people cause they didn’t have that kind of routine and that kind of structure to be a champion. And, and I did, I, you know, I was in it and kind of rejected it in the beginning because I just didn’t understand what was in play. But I could see in the fruits of it, I understood it. You know, my daddy was doing the right thing by, he showed me what greatness look like, you know, and I did the same thing in music. I would spend hours and hours doing things that no one else would want to do in the music business. Most people wanted to do the studio part, the fun part.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
But the thing that usually made your break broke you in the music industry was your grind, your hustle, your promotion. Like everybody wanted to be in the studio and or be on stage and, and live that life. But when it came down to go out him and flier, you know, when you’re in the beginning stages going out there and doing the hustle on the grind and the sweat, that’s usually what separated, you know, the winners from the losers. And, and I, I brought over the martial arts structure and discipline and routine. I brought that in the music and just apply the same principles and was successful with it. It’s the same here with this. I applied those same principles over here. It’ll work in anything you’re doing. These are universal principles that that are tied to success and there’s no success without them.

Speaker 2:
Dr Billy, we have time here for three final questions. Amber Cola has a question. A Cory mentor, the founder of Trinity employment has a question and then our legal Eagle West Carter, he’s an attorney, so he’s gonna paint you into a corner. I’m sure he has a question for you. So Amber Cola, what would be another question that you’d have for dr Billy?

Speaker 8:
Well, I dunno if I could talk my husband into it. We might have to build out a stage within all of our gyms to just have you stand there and just preach it loud to all the members live because so motivating every morning when we listened to you. And it’s so funny, we always go back to the blessed and unstoppable one back to the very beginning of, you know, all of the videos and it’s gotten to where we’ve listened to it so many times that we could just almost repeat it word for word. And we have a gym at home. And so it’s just us and it’s blaring. And

Speaker 2:
Let me play just a little clip of this real quick here. Let me just play a little bit. I got a question for you. You live in life was life living you? How bad do you want to be?

Speaker 9:
[Inaudible] Are you ready to level up in life? Are you ready to go to that next level? Are you sick of being average? I asked you a can find you live in life. What is life living you less than unstoppable.

Speaker 2:
He listened to this every day.

Speaker 8:
Oh, it’s, it’s so exciting when we get so pumped. So here’s, here’s a exciting question for you. I’ve got an idea for you. You know, the book’s a chicken soup for the soul and then he came out with all the others and you’ve got chicken soup for the mother’s soul. So I think we need a blessed and unstoppable because we, and we need him for a blessed and unstoppable for the mother. We need the blessing and stole for a wife all healed. I will hear you on some of your videos and you’ll really hit on. You can just feel the passion within you. Like when you talk about your wife and you’re talking about speaking truth over her, and it’s so powerful that, you know, even at that moment, my husband will come over and just, you know, put his hand on me or high five me and and just repeating what you’re saying, speaking truth over me.

Speaker 8:
I know we’ve had mornings that even in a workout, we’re spiritually battling for one of our children. And, and you’ll just chime right in and you’re speaking truth. And one of the most powerful things is, is the power in your voice. And you’ve got a quote that I’ve got written down here. The most powerful things in existence is faith, mind and the spoken word of God. And we love how you speak God’s word with a power and a truth that is exciting and it gets us excited about God’s word. It gets us ready to go fight the enemy through the day. So what, what is your next project that you have coming? Because I know God’s gonna use you in great ways.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Well, thank you. Thank you so much for the sort of kind of words you said there. I’m working on volume two of a blessing unstoppable. And I think he was kind of confirming what God had put him into about doing the series. I’ve been flirting in my mind with that for a while now. So it’s good to see that I’m on the right page. And I think maybe God just use you to confirm that

Speaker 8:
We’ve got volume one.

Speaker 2:
You’ve got volume one. Are you going to dr Billy the co laws and I, and maybe I’m speaking to an attorney, but you guys have thousands and thousands of members. You got to have Dr. Billy Knight or something. This has to happen. You guys need to connect. This has to happen. Dr Billy

Speaker 8:
Grand opening or something or get the people, we tell everybody we know they’ll be forward. Your YouTube videos. They’re absolutely encouraging. And it was from watching your video that I jumped online and order the book. And I love that you personally sign the book. So, and I know that as you grow and you get bigger, that may not be a possibility.

Speaker 2:
They’re going to book you a doctor Billy offline. They’re going to book. Is that cool? Are you cool with that?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
I’m done with that man. I love the idea that the gym, that AAA in the gym, that’s, that’s, that’s an awesome combination. They deal with the, with the spiritual and the body together. Man. It doesn’t get better than that. I’m working on volume two right now. [inaudible] And actually another one called burning the inner symphony of fire, which is, I’m going to do poetry with that and tied into self-help cause out. Some of the poetry will be about the struggle and the things I’m going through and then I’ll point it back to God’s word and how to fight the struggle. So I’m authentic in the word, you know, the Christians, sometimes they think that everything, once we accept Christ, but everything is just falling in place and everything is happy and that that’s not the case.

Speaker 8:
No, it’s the opposite is absolutely. Absolutely. It’s the opposite of that. Well, thank you for sharing your heart and the trials that you’ve gone through because your trials have encouraged us and we know that it was through those trials that you wrote, the things that you wrote and that you speak through the YouTube videos that you do.

Speaker 2:
Dr. Bailey, I don’t know how far and wide your, your trademark is and your copyrights for your books and your material list. But I’m working on a book that I gave to Corey. I haven’t given it to, I’ve, I’ve thought about, give it to Corey. I’ve been working on this. Corey is, is a, is a red hair guy. He started a Trinity employment and it’s called ginger power. No, no, it’s, it’s, it’s called and unstoppable

Speaker 1:
For Ginger’s who have founded a staffing company. Right, right. Are you excited? I’m pumped about this. What questions do you have for this Christian motivational expert, hip hop guru? What questions? Oh, well, I, I’m very interested in something that you said earlier. You, you quoted something that was one of the most important lessons that I began to learn and am still learning. It’s just a journey. But the verse that you quoted is that there is life and death in the power of the tongue. And my mentor really harped on me about this and a great example of how it was is I would say, well, I really wish I could do this, but I just don’t know that I’m able to do it. He’d be like, well, if you say so, you know, whatever you say. Proverbs 1821, by the way, and, and listen, it was the most powerful lesson that I began to learn. I think it’s a journey in really truly understanding that, but I was hoping that maybe you could speak a little bit about your journey in really understanding that verse. Most people read it and like, Oh yeah, that’s great. But when you really get the power of that and it changes your perspective and your perspective changes your circumstances. Tell me about your journey a little bit about that.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Well, you know, for years I was doing the rap and I was so in the definite junction out of my mouth into the community and then all of a sudden I got blindsided. My father passed away and now I’m facing this inner war going on in my mind. And it seemed like the moment my father pass away, that the enemy, the devil grabbed the Mike and started speaking to me. Like I had the Mike all my, my life when I was at now I can’t say anything and he was speaking to me. He’s telling me that the good days are over that I’m going to die just like my father did help him there. But I’m going to stroke and this is the new way of living. It’s, you know, the good is gone. It’s just going to be dark and black. And for like seven years, he had the mic and he just spoken there, man.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
He was speaking. And finally I took the mic back and began to speak back to him. And that’s when my life started to change. I started coming out of the dark when I started speaking back and I started conveying what garden, you know, I’m sending his word. And I said, you know, if John three 16 is true, then that means this other stuff must be truth. And if I say what it says right here, and probably they can 21 it says that I could change my life. So I’m going to run with you then I’m going to test this out. So I began to speak every single day when the enemy would say, you know, you’re going to die, you’re going to die. I’d start calling back, you know, Jeremiah 29 11 so I know the plans I have for you to clear the more pens a prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope in the future.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So I started conveying that and next thing you know, I started actually believing that once I vetted enough, I started believing it, then my mind started changing. I started seeing the world different and I slowly began to climb out of that I pit, I was in, you know, and then I realized, well wow, you know, this works for me. What other kind of power does it have? And then I’ll realize, well, you know, I could still live over people. So I started speaking and so like that way. And then I got to thinking about the science of it. Okay, well it definitely, even the power of the time, if the audio is part of God’s change here, if I’m on YouTube, I’m blessed in that audio around the glow. So I could change the world with my mouth through YouTube because it’s going to be broadcast at all throughout the globe.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
So I really started to coming to the understanding of the power and the tools that God had put in place. So mainly just added a, another sense of aggressive in my, in my methods. I’m like, you know, when you say these things, it’s not just you say anything. These things have the potential to change people change circumstances and change lives. So when I get behind the mic, I don’t consider it a game. It’s not play time for me is there’s people on the other line, on the other side of YouTube or the other side of these speakers that are going through real life struggles. Stage four, cancer in prison marriage, breaking up, bankruptcy, children, sick, whatever it is, they’re going through real trials and tribulations and me when my mouth, that might be the only shot they got. So when I get behind that, Mike, I take it real serious and I try to throw as much life and give the things that God has put in me too and give them to them full speed.

Speaker 2:
Dr Billy you, you are just a wealth of knowledge and I want to respect your time. We have one more question and again, I just West you’re an attorney so I don’t want to overstep here, but that book I’m working on for you, it’s called blessed and unstoppable plan B, if you don’t like dr Billy’s plan a, it’s a book for lawyers. It’s 18 and exciting conversations for litigation. It’s a really phenomenal

Speaker 10:
Look. So lawyers are known for is exciting company.

Speaker 2:
Right? So what question would you have? West Carter, by the way, West Carter, he’s a partner with the law firm. Winter’s king.com winters king.com. That represents TD Jakes who I’m sure you aware of a, they represented a pastor Joel Olsteen back in the day. Joyce Meyer pastor Craig Rochelle. So a lot of the commonalities, probably a lot of shared connections here on West Carter. What questions would you have for good, dr Billy?

Speaker 10:
Well, I’m curious, you know, looking at how your tracks progress, I know you came out of the hip hop world and once you started getting into the speaking gigs, I’m curious, was there anyone that you modeled your oration after? You know, you start talking about knowledge is one thing, passion is another, but communicating it, you know, your rhythm, your tone, your inflection or were there any, any people you looked at and said, Hey, I’m going to take a little bit of this and I’ll take a little bit of that. Anybody you modeled how you’re, how your speaking ability after?

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Well, when I was going through the panic attacks, so seven years, you know, I would listen to motivational speakers all day long cause I was going through the struggle. So I listened to the Tony Robbins, very Tom and CDG Joe. I actually got to see Joe and in 2009 when I was right in the middle of this struggle, my mother lives in Houston. She took me out there and she like, Sam, listen to this. God has go for hope over you. And I was just at that early stage of getting back to God, you know, and Joe’s message in the way he conveyed it was just perfect for the time I was in. I was like, man, I really needed this. And it kind of sent me on a know total Dickens’ trajectory, but I studied all the great, I go back and listen to Churchill, Martin Luther King Kennedy, all the people that have been great speakers throughout time and, and really studied their format, study their structure.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
They break down their, their articulation, their dynamics when they go soft, when they go high studying the body language and things like that, that I really immersed myself in the great, but it got to a point, yeah, I think it was 2018 that I cut everybody else off. I was like, okay, you studied the greats now. Now you must come into your own, cause I knew this, you know from music, if you listen to certain artists too long and you start to sound like a mini ended up being a cover band or that Oh that group that you love, you know, you don’t really come into your own thing. So I turned it off like I did in music. You get the foundation, the great building, the foundation, and then you have to step through the later. You have to get to your own truth, your own authenticity.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
And so around 2018 I cut off all motivation and just went inside and said, okay Lord, let me dance my own music now. Show me what it is and how to convey it and what you want. I’m sure there’s traces and evidence of all these great stuff studied in my stuff, but I’m hoping to, you know, each day get up and pursue my own tooth and, and be who God has made me to be. You know, we, we, we stand on the shoulders of the greats and the legends, but we still have to have our own, you know, own authenticity and own truth and that’s what I’m striving for every day.

Speaker 2:
Final 30 seconds here for you. For the listeners out there that want to know what to do as a result of this, is there a specific YouTube channel you would recommend they go to a specific website or a book you want them to purchase? I mean, what is the next step? If they want to learn more and get into the world of all things? Dr Billy all’s Brooks.

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Okay, I’ll give him a quick three things. Youtube.Com backslash or forward slash Billy, B, I,L , L, Y all his books a, L. S. B. R. O. K. S. That’s my YouTube channel right there. I’ve got 180 plus videos on there and you can, you can listen to them anytime of day. They’re all free, no charge, nothing. So if you want to hit some motivation and you need some extra boost and go through the struggle, the child tribulations, go to the channel, I guarantee you, or the help. A second thing, the book, I’m blessing us out to believe your blueprint for success. You can get that directly from me. I blessed unstoppable.com and then the third thing is I’m on a 40 city tour right now. I’m going down the major cities in the United States. If you get the opportunity to come to one of the seminars, I promise you I’ll give you some follow you. I’ll give you some tools and some ammo to change your life. If you get the opportunity, we should show up to one of the seminars. We’re also going to October 25th we’ll also be in London. I’m bringing a blessing unstoppable to the continent of Europe, so we can’t wait for that as it’s been announced last week. So it will be the October 25th in London, but I’ll be sure to check us out online, subscribe to the YouTube, get the book and hope to see art. One of the seminars,

Speaker 1:
Dr. Belly, you are a laser show. Thank you so much for lending us your, your time and for producing the content that Charles and Amber and so many people listen to on a daily basis. We really do appreciate you

Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
Madison. Nada. I just want to say thank you for having me on the show. And like I end every single video, Billy O’s, Brooks blessing unstoppable and to God be the glory.

Speaker 1:
And now without any further ed to what.