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From Grit to Greatness: The Transformation of Fitness Mogul Corey Calliet
Have you ever wondered what it takes to emerge from the toughest of beginnings to become a titan of the fitness world? Corey Calliet life reads like a screenplay – a gritty New Orleans upbringing, brushes with adversity, and the kind of self-belief that inspires legends. Our latest episode isn't just another celebrity trainer's success story; it's a testament to the human spirit. Corey opens up about his transformative journey, from navigating the challenges of his childhood to shaping the physiques—and minds—of stars like Michael B. Jordan, A$AP Rocky, Keke Palmer, Cody Christian and many more.
This conversation with Corey goes beyond the bright lights of LA's elite gyms and into the heart of what it means to truly overcome. It's not every day you get to hear the raw, unvarnished truth of someone who chose to be defined not by their circumstances, but by their relentless pursuit of a dream. Corey's narrative echoes a powerful reminder: our destinies are not predetermined by our environments. Instead, they are carved out through our choices, our consistency, and the kind of unwavering hope that turns adversity into a launching pad for greatness. Strap in for an episode that promises to not only move you but also challenge the way you view your own potential.
Only Cool on Social 2024
Have you ever wondered what it takes to emerge from the toughest of beginnings to become a titan of the fitness world? Corey Calliet life reads like a screenplay – a gritty New Orleans upbringing, brushes with adversity, and the kind of self-belief that inspires legends. Our latest episode isn't just another celebrity trainer's success story; it's a testament to the human spirit. Corey opens up about his transformative journey, from navigating the challenges of his childhood to shaping the physiques—and minds—of stars like Michael B. Jordan, A$AP Rocky, Keke Palmer, Cody Christian and many more.
This conversation with Corey goes beyond the bright lights of LA's elite gyms and into the heart of what it means to truly overcome. It's not every day you get to hear the raw, unvarnished truth of someone who chose to be defined not by their circumstances, but by their relentless pursuit of a dream. Corey's narrative echoes a powerful reminder: our destinies are not predetermined by our environments. Instead, they are carved out through our choices, our consistency, and the kind of unwavering hope that turns adversity into a launching pad for greatness. Strap in for an episode that promises to not only move you but also challenge the way you view your own potential.
Only Cool on Social 2024
All right, we are back in action on Only Cool On Social. It's been a long time coming. I've been talking about this for a while, so finally got my good friend called my big brother. We've been doing a lot of things together over the last year. I got to bring this out because it's a hefty intro. Right here we got the man, the myth, the legend.
Eric:He's been on the cover of Men's Fitness Magazine. He was the trainer for Michael B Jordan, jonathan Majors, wiley Quinn, latifah A$AP, rocky, megan Stallion, juju Smith-Schuster, dj Wilson, jasmine Sanders, john Bojega for Star Wars, cody Christian, kiki Palmer. He was on Creed 1, 2, and 3, where he trained Michael B Jordan 1, 2, and 3. Ray Trey, michael B Jordan for Black Panther, fantastic Four. He was on Khloe Kardashian's Revenge Body. This guy does it all.
Eric:Corey Calliet, what did I forget? What did I forget, bro? This is crazy. This is insane. This guy dances, he plays instruments. You're going to learn it all today. He sings, he plays instruments. You're going to learn it all today. He sings. He's an athlete and I'm going to probably learn more stuff today just off this, because I learn something new every time we talk about something. So, corey Kaye, everybody, I want to get into it because there's a lot of stuff. I feel like you've been on podcasts and I've seen things, but I feel like we've built a relationship as friends where I've kind of seen Corey Kaya, the person you know behind the gym, behind the physical fitness lifestyle, and who you are as a person, and I don't think people have really got to see inside that. So we'll get into it. Man, let us know how did it all start? You're not from California, you live in L. Us know how did it all start? You're not from California, you live in LA. But where did it all start for you?
Corey Calliet:It started in New Orleans.
Eric:Okay.
Corey Calliet:Born and raised in New Orleans. From New Orleans I went to Baton Rouge because Katrina moved us to Baton Rouge. Actually, my daughter is the reason why I moved to Baton Rouge. But to take it back a little bit further from New Orleans, new Orleans I grew up in a very humble beginning, growing up in the street when I say growing up in the street, not homeless, but poverty Grew up rough Also did a lot of stuff I wasn't supposed to do, but a lot of those things taught me lessons and made me the man who I am. So I wouldn't change a bit of anything that I went through but, like I was saying, move to Baton Rouge. Um, I was a postal worker for six years uh, delivering.
Corey Calliet:USPS yeah, shut up. I almost got stuck there uh and I found the, the thing that saved my life, which was fitness. Uh, and fitness was my tool, my vehicle to get me where I'm at today. So, through consistency and hard work and believing in yourself, which you're going to hear me talk about that a lot tonight.
Corey Calliet:Believing in yourself was one of the main things I had to focus on to get through all those times when I felt like this may not go right, taking a chance on myself. So yeah, man, and here I am now in Los Angeles, california, living the dream.
Eric:I want to go take it back into Louisiana a little bit more. What was it like growing up as a kid? Because you're a strong dude, not physically, like you're a mentally, emotionally strong person, like. I don't think people know that part and I think if you learn who Corey is from childhood and what you've been through, what you've kind of picked yourself up through to get to where you are today, you can see why you are the person you are. So what was childhood like? Just growing up in the streets? What part of Louisianaiana, by the way, because I know we go back and forth. I'm like yo, bakersfield, and you're like I'm from new orleans. Man, I'm from, I'm from the real new orleans, not the new fun. You're from one of the you actually, because I used to try to. I'm not used to, I still do. Bakersfield has a bad rap, but you come from the. I think it's the deadliest city or the highest murder rate in all of the US. Where's that?
Corey Calliet:That's New Orleans. I lived in the LJS the 15th Ward and I moved to Hollygrove and I got older. Okay, new. Orleans is not a place. You, the new New Orleans, you know everybody see New Orleans and they, like you, know the food and the fun and the music and the jazz and it's like that's all true, but outside of that is the hood. Yeah, and that's what I was raised in.
Corey Calliet:I stayed in the hood my whole life in my whole childhood and didn't know anything outside of that. It's almost like you couldn't see past what you only could see. Yeah. So you had to have a bit of strength and imagination and creativity to be able to see your way out of it, and I was able to see that. But when you think about like you said mindset and being strong.
Corey Calliet:I faced a lot of adversity a lot, and when you live in a situation like that, you can either become a victim of your surroundings, of your environment, or you can surpass that and become what you see for yourself. And when you don't know what that is, all you can do is focus on what that can be. And it was every day making it to the next day, you know, finding the good and positive and something to just hold on to. That wasn't gonna hold me back.
Eric:What? What's a uh, what's a happy moment memory you have as a kid in new orleans?
Corey Calliet:man, honestly, it was like playing outside, like being on a bike with my homeboys, um, doing, doing kid stuff, doing stuff that we don't do now you know. Yeah, um, going to church when I was growing up, going to like different revivals and church, doing kids stuff, doing stuff that we don't do now you know. Yeah, going to church when I was growing up, going to like different revivals and church camps and stuff like that.
Corey Calliet:That was fun you know being in a choir, in church, playing in music, or actually I was in a band in high school from 7th to 12th grade. That was some of my most enjoyable moments music, you know. So that's like like that was my happy place.
Eric:it still is not I was gonna say it is like I, this dude dances everywhere. You can't. You can't put on any kind of beat and he's dead. I haven't seen him dance the country yet, but I swear he will if I put it on, I probably would.
Eric:Uh, you so. So I've talked to you about this and this is there's there's a difference depending on what culture and city you're raised in and at least from a lot of the perspective of my friends and stuff growing up my high school, if you were in a band you were kind of a nerd. That's not the case in new orleans. You, you like a, you're a jock essentially, if you know anything, because the, the culture in new orleans is jazz music, you're highly like, musically inclined you, you, you play the piano, you I don't think people probably have heard you, but I've heard you kind of like, you know you'll hit some notes and then you, you, you got some rhythm. So, uh, talk about that. You were a band major right drum, major, drum, major, drum, major. I played instrument.
Corey Calliet:I played a baritone first, but music was always connected to me. I banned you. You had two choices. I remember in seventh grade, when I first got to high school, they said at the end, at the end of school, you could either go to the band room or go to football field. Some of my homeboys went to go play ball and a lot of us went to go get in the band because that's what we saw growing up. The band was the cool thing. I did play sports when I was an athlete. Then I played ball again when I got to college, tried to play ball when I got to college. The band was everything. It was like music. That was the culture. That was my upbringing. Being honest, being in a band you had to be tough. Yeah, like mentally tough, because it's nothing against that hazing and getting your ass beat. They don't play.
Eric:They did that in New Orleans.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, man, being a crab, being an underclassman, man them upperclassmen will beat your ass Homecoming week. Man them upperclassmen will beat your ass Homecoming week. Man. Well, oh no.
Eric:No playing in the band that was the difference they.
Corey Calliet:We were tougher than some of the. That was a being in the band was tough Getting beat with drumsticks. That's the real thing. Getting beat with a drumstick. That was the real thing, boy, I'll tell you the truth.
Eric:What are the Symbols? They hitting that on both sides of your head. No, I ain't doing that. So, like all those things, that kind of built you to going into high school. You said you went to college. Where did you start your fitness journey? At what point did it, your life, go a different direction? Like you know what I want to get in the gym, or I want to, were you always. Were you always focused or disciplined and and had a commitment to be able to be like? You know, I'm gonna wake up, I'm workout, I'm gonna eat right, I'm gonna.
Eric:I'm gonna um make certain sacrifices so so where did that come from?
Corey Calliet:I grew up selling, I grew up hustling. Working out wasn't the plan. Yeah. Not until I got out of high school, because I started to get a little overweight, started to get a little chubby. You're making money on the streets and you're doing all that. You just.
Eric:No time for it. You don't care about it.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, when I got in college before college, a lot of my friends were getting in shape Of course girls be looking at them and I just got money. I wanted to work out. I wanted to be fine. I wanted to see what it felt like to be fine to have abs. People don't like to admit that, but it was like listen, I'm trying to get in shape. Yeah. And it became addictive.
Eric:Is anyone going to be able to see the high school Corey? You're in shape right now. I don't know why you put that sweater on, bro, like, don't play. You know you're in the like. We have Corey in the Memphis. He's beating that right now and you wouldn't think it. But this dude is like in crazy shape right now and I could testify to this dude is like in crazy shape right now and I could testify to this dude. Some people think you know you're like on this celebrity status of the life you live, but you're up every morning working out, you get what you need to get done during the day and then still you make time to get in the gym again if you want to or need to, and you're training people all day. Uh, it's, it's. It's an insane regimen that you have and most of the time the truth is you don't get most of the things you want done in in the day no, I don't.
Corey Calliet:Working out is the most is the thing I will get done yeah what um? Working out is my fuel. It's my energy source, is also my place to be better, and I do it every day. I become, I have, I have, I become addicted to it.
Eric:If I don't train, my life won't remain the same talk about why it's important to make health and fitness the first priority, and why is it your first priority and why should it be everyone else's first priority if they want to get further in any area?
Corey Calliet:of life. I think fitness helps build us a part of discipline, and a disciplined life is a good life, um, but also your body is the one thing that you can depend on, that you have to carry through life every day. Why not make it the best version of itself? Why not have enough respect for yourself to make yourself better every day? People make excuses of why they can't do this and do that. You're actually making an excuse on the one thing that you can't control, which is your body.
Corey Calliet:I think it's so important. I think for men it's very important. Yeah. You know, to have a well-built physique that says something about you. And I just take training and I put it in other avenues of my life, because if I'm disciplined in one place, I will be disciplined in another place if I want to be. Yeah. But it starts with me.
Eric:And you could take it back all the way back to when you said being a drum major or and all these things where you're like yo, this, there's a certain level of commitment and discipline it takes to. I'll say this right now I learned to play the piano a bit. You've seen me play a little bit Still one of the hardest things I've ever learned in my life, and I always commend anyone playing an instrument because I'm like yo. These are the real. These people are the real deal.
Corey Calliet:when I think about it, man, like so you think about it. We do halftime shows, so we have to learn how to play an instrument and march you know, 8, 16, 16, 8 up and down the field and be under pressure and be under pressure, but not only that to be able to do that at the same time, play the right note and march like you're supposed to. Knowing the field show, knowing steps, that's a certain type of discipline you have to learn. You have to be able to do to be able to do that.
Corey Calliet:And when I think about it now, everything that I was doing growing up was all leading me to this point. I didn't know where it was going, but it was leading me to this moment because a lot of things that I was doing already. I'm implementing them in different ways, but it's all discipline.
Eric:I want to talk about this real quick because this is the most important piece, I think, to success, and you started. You want to know what it's like to have abs. When did you first start seeing abs real quick? 2008 2008 it was shout out 08 june 2008 that's crazy.
Corey Calliet:I was in the mirror. That's a real thing. It was July 2008,. Right before my birthday. I was in the mirror at my house at 1251 North Ardenwood, in my room, and I remember looking in the mirror and I raised my shirt up and my left ab at the top. I saw it. Poking through.
Corey Calliet:It was the only one, and from then on I started to do abs so much because they were coming. I had never had abs before. Yeah and I knew it was because I had already was working out for years yeah and, but nothing ever happened. Because I didn't have the tools, I didn't know what to do but then when? I got a coach and I got a trainer. They was able to tell me okay, you've built the, you've built the work ethic what to do with it.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, now let me give you direction. You feel what I'm saying. When I got the direction, then I was able to follow that to get to the place I wanted to be. And when I transformed my body from what I was trying to do in six years, I did it in eight weeks I said, oh hell, no, ain't no way in the world. Six years I was trying to do this and it only took me eight weeks. But there was a lesson in that I said something earlier.
Corey Calliet:I said if people had to choose between what they want and what they need, they'd choose what they want first, 100%, because people want quick what's the word Easy. No, they want quick validation. Quick, whatever that word is they be saying these days. Yeah, validation.
Eric:They want quick validation, they want it right now, instant gratification. Instant gratification.
Corey Calliet:Instant gratification but if you can just wait and get a thing that you need, what you need would have longevity. Yeah, me, going through the process of going through six years of building a mindset on trying to transform helped me to when I actually transformed my body in eight weeks. I was able to hold that and know what to do with it going forward, because if I just took the eight weeks when I wasn't mentally ready, I'd have fell off and I'd know what to do.
Eric:Yeah, someone told you you couldn't get abs. I seen that on a podcast. They did, man.
Corey Calliet:Right A dude. I went to college with Moe told at Fat Okay, nah, he out here somewhere, man, he doing some security work or something. I think he do some important jobs. Still look the same, Okay, okay.
Eric:Well, I mean, shout out to him, you might have been the reason this guy got abs. You know what I'm saying? No, he never got them. Oh he, no, no, no, I did so.
Eric:You built this mindset, disciplined and made different commitments to change your own life. What was the turning point? Because I know that certain people have told you the things you're doing now you had spoke on before they had ever came about, when you were doing personal fitness training for people. They're like yo, I'm going to be, I'm going to be doing this one day. And and I think I've seen comments like yo, you said you were going to do this and you're doing it. You know where did that opportunity come from? How did you get on the first set of working with a celebrity? You worked with Michael B Jordan from Fantastic Four, black Panther, the Creed movies. And then at what point did you realize, yo, like, you rose to like a celebrity status and when did all that kind of become a reality for you? How did you get there and when did it really like, hit you like, oh man, I'm doing it.
Corey Calliet:So my first movie was Fantastic Four in 2014. I got a call from a guy named Aaron Williamson to train a cast of Fantastic Four. He reached out to me, saw what I could do, brought me on the set that week to meet the cast and see things, and I was like I'm finally on a Marvel movie which is crazy. I was like what the hell?
Corey Calliet:And met Mike and came out here to LA in 2014. Mike and came out here to LA in 2014. From then, meeting the people I met, training, moving to LA and doing the things that I did because I brought something so unique, because I did before that. I remember telling my ex at the time I was like I want to be a celebrity trainer and there was no celebrities in Louisiana, I mean Baton Rouge Just I'm going to train somebody. At the time I had met Michael J White. I did my first movie with him Never Back Down 2.
Eric:Michael J White. Michael J White, yeah, that's a.
Corey Calliet:That's my guy, my mentor in action acting. I got my first job and I didn't want it to just be a job, I didn't want it to be opportunity, I wanted it to become my job. Moved to LA, still was with Mike, and people saw what I could do when I did. Well, they saw, you know, I put a little muscle on them on Fantastic Four. Then Creed one came out and I blew up yeah.
Corey Calliet:But even though I could have, I could have, I could have been a one hit wonder. Yeah, because most people don't know how to get in front of the light, they don't know how to get in front. They stay in the back because there's a certain type of confidence and self-assurance and self-awareness to get in the front and actually be able to to be there. Yeah, um, I knew how to get in front of the, in the front and show them I'm here. Yeah, um, and it wasn't to take nothing away from nobody else, I just had.
Corey Calliet:I was good at what I was doing and the world was going to see my work. Yeah, I did say, if anybody, if, if they ever saw my work, it was going to change everything. That's what happened and you know I knew exactly how to carry myself and what to do. And being next to you know, mike, and all those years seeing how they moved and how the team moved, and I knew I was going to be something.
Corey Calliet:And it really didn't hit me until like my second, my second season of Revenge. By that that I was like and that was Khloe Kardashian's show.
Eric:Okay, oh.
Corey Calliet:I'm a big ticket because I never, I never saw myself like that. Yeah. And you know it's one thing where people going to give you that. You know big fans and all this type of work, but it's like one day I was somewhere no, no, creed II premiere. I was with my own PR and I remember they called my name to come on the carpet. And what's his name? That always announced the fights.
Eric:Michael.
Corey Calliet:Buffer, michael Buffer.
Eric:Okay.
Corey Calliet:I'mer Okay, I'm sorry, man, mike, you can see this, it's okay.
Eric:Sorry, mike, he know who you are.
Corey Calliet:He does, he's my guy, he said, and demand something. They called my name to come out and when I came out people went crazy and I was looking and I said go over there. My publicist said go over there and they had people with my pictures for me to sign and stuff like that and I was like what is going on? And I realized I had did something that nobody ever saw.
Corey Calliet:But the way I carried myself, I carried myself like an A-lister like a celebrity, like a person of interest, like somebody you wanted to be like or somebody you wanted to know. Yeah, and it was very like I was like, oh wow, and it didn't make me get a big head or, like you know, start losing my stuff. It made me take myself more serious. Yeah, because if I'm going to be this person, I'm going to have to know how to carry this person.
Eric:Exactly.
Corey Calliet:You know. So it was that point when I was like, oh, this is really happening. And of course, you know you go to games and you see people and you go and do this and these certain celebrities come up to you and they want to know you and talk to you. And I know you, I'm a fan of this and that and. I was like I used to watch you on my. It's crazy man. You. I think you've learned this about me.
Eric:I'm one of those people you could tell me everything, but I need to see it Like quick story. I've told you this You're a big dude and you have a lot of muscle. Typically, someone with a lot of muscle mass isn't in the best cardio shape. We're in New York at the gym Williamsburg Boxing Gym in Brooklyn Okay, and you were hitting mitts and you weren't stopping, no, you were doing more rounds than I could comfortably do on mitts and not get tired. And I was like, oh shoot, okay, he wasn't lying, he could do this, like, and that was. I was like, oh, shoot, okay, he wasn't lying, he, he could do this. And then, but you proved me wrong and yourself right in a lot of areas to where I don't know. And then we go to Miami.
Eric:People are coming to you on the street like yo, corey, what up, bro, like it's not even sometimes it's it's fans or it'd be someone from New Orleans, you know? Or are we in the airport, you know? So the and and I try to explain this to people like my friends that know like we're close. They're like oh, who, cory, I'm like you might not know, cory by by, like a name of, on, on like this level of who you know other, but you're known in this, this higher echelon of like celebrities we go every celebrity we've ever been around. I'm talking like everyone. They're like, hey, I swear, corey, I've been working out. It's almost like people feel like they have to say like I swear to god wasn't, I'm not eating bad and and uh. But it shows the level of respect people have for you.
Eric:One, two I don't think you're giving enough credit about this. You're one of the first true personal trainers in the celebrity world that was doing what you're doing before. Physical fitness kind of blew up on the social media platform world and and I think that you should get your flowers for that and and and not just that, a lot of people will know this. You're, you're turning 40 this year and I mean I mean I know I look good and I'm pretty confident, but sometimes I'm like yo this from cory acting like he's 22 and and you people think you're you're in your early 30s, they think you're 32, 33. It's a blessing I work out a lot.
Corey Calliet:My daughter always gives me shit about it. I'll be 40 years old July 10th. I don't look at all.
Eric:I even look at some guys when they start getting older, how their skin look and how their body, look I don't look like that, no, but it's a testament, I think, to the whole health as well.
Corey Calliet:It is bro, it is man.
Eric:Man, this ain't vain. I love to look good. Yeah, no, I know. Fun fact about Corey when we're at the gym he has like four legs. By the way, he do this shit on purpose. He'll have a sweater, he'll have a shirt and then a tank top and there's some built dudes in the gym sometimes and you'll hear the every time lifting and Corey nonchalantly work out, go through his sets. But you know, once he get ready to take his shirt off and jacket, everyone kind of like who the hell, this dude?
Eric:But you know it and it's really your way of saying like, hey, I'm still that dude, I don't care what age I am. I've built this resume. I've built this reputation. No one's going to come into a gym and outshine me. I respect it. But I'm that guy. I go to the gym.
Corey Calliet:Arnold Schwarzenegger said something a long time ago when you go to the gym, you're going to put on a performance. If you look at every Creed movie the one, two and three. That was one thing I made Michael do is reveal. I learned that from my bodybuilding coach, don Long, when I was competing. We was lining up to get ready to go on stage and he said I don't want you to take everything off yet because you've got to pump up. He said I want you to make him wait, so we'll pump up. He had me just start pumping up with everything on first, and then he'll say when they start lining up, he'll say take your sweats off so they can see my legs and they start looking Because it creates it messes with their head, because they don't know what I look like. And then he had me pump up some more and then, right before we about to go off, he said take your jacket off. And I take your jacket off. It's like the element of surprise in me like this.
Corey Calliet:So, whenever I'm working out, I always wait. I do like the first four sets and exercises, and I can feel it when it's coming and I'm like, okay, it's time. And I always know because it's a reveal. And the same thing with Michael. Every time that he came into the ring for Creed, if you look, it was a reveal of you seeing his body. That is a big. That's a sticking point for me. Same thing with me when I work out. I'm going to put on a show. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:When I'm working out. If you're working out next to me, you're going to be like this Mm-hmm. And I'm not only there to make you, inspire you. Exactly.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, I like how I look and I'm always judging myself, but I know I used to go to the gym and there was bigger guys that looked good and I wanted to look like them. As a matter of fact, when I used to work at the club years ago, there was like 40s guys that was huge. They looked symmetrical small waist, big shoulders I'm talking about, looked great and I used to be like they looked crazy. I mean, I love that and I'm that to people now.
Eric:Yeah, you kind of like what you're really saying and the cool thing is this Some people think cocky is arrogant, but you're confident. And Mike Tyson used to talk about his physique. He's like, honestly, I love and it's not in this way, but he's like I love the male physique and I want to be at its fullest potential. You know, and I think that kind of goes along those lines, you know um and and I want this to kind of segue into this you've built a lot of male um physiques and I think a lot of that is connected to be that I want to look like. I want to look like this and I know we can build this.
Eric:What's the difference between building a male physique and then, because you've worked with some high-profile female clients that I don't think you've got as much recognition for Keke Palmer's been killing it. We've seen it in her last her birthday when she posted, and she's been, you know, been showing out. You've worked with Megan Stanley and you've worked with other athletes, other really great girls that are pushing themselves physically in the gym. What's the difference and what's the approach with that and how do you really differentiate how you're going to work with the client and build what they want?
Speaker 3:so I started working with women first okay women were my first clients and women are harder to train than men because women hormones.
Corey Calliet:Women hold more fat than men. Um, it was more of a challenge. Okay, to sculpt a woman's body was like a masterpiece to me, and to be able to take women from being overweight to being a bikini model was amazing. And I make everybody work hard. I don't give a damn woman or man. You're going to work hard.
Corey Calliet:But it's all on what a person wants, because I don't look at myself as a trainer, I look at myself as an artist. When someone goes to an engineer or they go to someone to design something, they're going to sit down and tell them what they want. So when you tell me what you want, I'm able to sit there and say you know what? This is what we're going to create. I'm going to give you the blueprint, but I'm going to sit there and show you like it's a masterpiece, like I'm creating a sculpture. And that's my way of looking at it, because training for me is not about training someone, rep after rep, number after number. It's an art piece. It's something I feel, something I see. I call myself a conductor of muscles. I'm able to orchestrate muscles in a way to insinuate a certain type of contraction, to make a muscle look good and grow, and that's why training is so artistic to me and it's such a big deal to me and it's so important, and that's the same thing I do with my body.
Eric:I got to look good Like you're big in the boxing world. You're in the boxing gyms. It's part of your routine to consistently just be jumping in every aspect of the physical game. Fight just got announced last week Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul of the physical game.
Eric:Uh, fight just got announced last week, uh, mike tyson versus jake paul. Jake paul, yeah, jake paul, um, you were, you were entertaining, uh, uh, potentially jumping in the ring. Um, how does that go if you jump in the ring with jake paul? Um, um, or do you? Or do you think they don't even consider it once? Once you, once you, the ring with Jake Paul, or do you think they don't even consider it once you?
Corey Calliet:once you, once you, someone sees you. No, people are stupid, so they'll do all that talking and stuff because it sounds good on on Instagram. Yeah, but remember, I told you, I said, and I told Malik too, I said I'm not getting in this sport to do it, to be friendly. Yeah, I'm going to hurt you. Yeah, I'm not playing with you. I'm going to hurt you and destroy you, because if anybody getting away from taking Carmella's father away, I have to hurt them.
Eric:That's scary. When someone bring up their daughter and then a fight, I don't think it's hard for them to lose, so it's like I respect.
Corey Calliet:I think, Jake is phenomenal of a market of a marketing person? Yeah, he can fight now too.
Eric:Yeah, he's definitely leveled up his game.
Corey Calliet:I'm not going to take him, you know, because, at any, given any given time he could take knock me out, yeah all he takes is one punch yeah, but um, I'm a motherfucker.
Eric:Yeah, I want you definitely. I've seen you hit meds. I've seen you in in the ring. I've seen you hit the bag. I've seen you train. If, if that fight, let's just stay, this, you know this is let's just act like this is happening. If you get offered a fight to jump in the ring with someone like J-Paul, will you take it, of course, immediately. You're not scared. I'm scared of what I just had to ask that. I just had to make sure I threw that out because I knew he was going to respond.
Corey Calliet:Oh, no, the scary shit we don't do. He said no, the scary shit we don't do. I'm not he said no, I don't. My grandmother told me this one time, before she died years ago, she said Rest in peace, Grandma. You ain't scared of nothing, boy. She said, that's what scares me, mm-hmm. But I also know if I have to prepare to train for something to battle, you won't train harder than me.
Eric:Yeah, oh, you're not training for nothing right now. You're just training for yourself. I'm just training to wake up. Yeah, I like that. Next question who's your biggest competition In what In life? Me, okay.
Corey Calliet:That's it. You compete with yourself. I have to beat myself every day.
Eric:Yeah, I like to note this real quick Corey is in his best physical shape he's ever been in after he met me. So if you're looking to get in shape, get you a good camera guy, get you good the camera don't lie. The camera don't lie. He's in crazy shape right now.
Corey Calliet:I'm going to say this I, I I'm gonna toot my own horn for a second I amazed myself right now um, oh, I, I know I was in shape, like I get every every year. I level up. Right now I'm amazed that, like, what my physique is doing, what my athleticism is doing, what my body is doing, like I'm in shape, shape, um, and this and I'm, and, and it's going up and honestly, you know, I'm a trainer and I'm an elite trainer, but I have coaches and trainers that watch my back.
Eric:I was literally going to ask you that, shout out Sweet Pain.
Corey Calliet:Shout out Cuts Sweet.
Eric:Pain crazy.
Corey Calliet:Ariel Cuts. He trains Olympians. Okay, I'm not an Olympian. We know what my task is, because I don't have the mental capacity to train on my own. I have too much I'm thinking about, so I need somebody to give me direction. I'm not perfect. I go get help too, and I believe every trainer should have a trainer. I mean, I am great at what I do.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, but sometimes I got to go get help because I don't feel like it, I'm tired, I can't think. So you know, like I said, sweet Pain, he's my guy. He's been, you know, kicking my ass the way I kick people's ass. Ariel, who's been a blessing in my life, amazing coach. When I went to him arms open you know, I got you, and anytime I need him he's there for me. So you know I I have to have somebody watching over me too, you know so.
Eric:but um, this year's man like I'm going into 40 man looking like- you're looking like uh, someone training for the olympics and in in the area of the sport that they they got there in right now, legit, I mean I have to look like a real hero.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, I have to embody excellence when it comes to my physique and I have to make sure I display that in other areas of my life as well, because you can't walk around looking as good as I do with an ugly inside. So if I'm holding excellence to a certain standard. I got to make sure that my inside and my heart and my mind and my spirit is good too. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:Because a good inside will only destroy and deteriorate a good outside. And I do like this is my year, like I'm showing men going into their 40s. Man, don't get it twisted bro, the young is around me. That's like 25 and 26.
Eric:I'm 33. I'm tired, I get excited.
Corey Calliet:The young is around me. That's like 25 and 26. I'm 33, I'm tired. I get excited when I get around these kids. That's 25 and I know and they take their little jacket off and they got little baby muscles and shit, I don't know somebody's somebody let me put my sweater, some of these little you know instagram guys. Man, they be on instagram not the bodybuilders no, no, talking shit bro.
Eric:I really want you to. I know you've been holding some stuff in about this stuff.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, I mean, you know, I've been in the game a long time bro, so I kind of be seeing and I don't. I just see it a lot bro and I'm like a lot of y'all don't really live that life, y'all don't really do it, and I do it and do everything.
Eric:No, you're doing track and field. You're in the boxing gym, you're in the regular gym, you're going on runs. You literally are in every facet of the game making sure you're leveling up yourself. And I'm about to be a certified yoga instructor too. Hey, he won. Come on, man, I'm dead. To be a certified yoga instructor too hey, he won't. Come on, man, I'm dead serious.
Speaker 3:You just went to yoga and you no, no, I'm dead serious.
Corey Calliet:Come on, man, I'm dead serious. He did some hot yoga. No, this is something because I look at what can I do to make my body better, what can I change? What can I if I start doing this?
Eric:whether you elongate my muscles round, round them out even better. If I do this and do that I'm trying to do. I want to see what this look like. Yeah, I mean, I think this is one of those things you literally get to try everything within it and be like you know what I like and you're changing. You're always changing your muscles and things that your muscles can do, so you already know what it can do to your body. It's like yo, let me test this muscle out in this way because it's never been tested in that way.
Eric:You know, a lot of people don't know this. Just because you are a dog in the gym, they think that you got to be eating right, healthy habits 100% of the time. You just put a post-up of your physical transformation, pretty much saying like yo, I might do this for a living, but you don't always have to be at 100%. You know You're a snacks person Big time. I'm going to say the story real quick. I just had a Reese's before I started. I have it. I'm going to probably throw that into my pocket.
Eric:I had a.
Corey Calliet:Reese's and it's Easter time coming up too, so I love Easter.
Eric:I actually like. Those are the ones I prefer, the white chocolate. I love these. They're good. I gave up snacks right now, but I was here editing one day and this is when I was first coming here a lot, and I don't know you weren't here for sure I was like man, man, I'm hungry. I said this food Don't got no snacks. And I started going Through your cabinets and I found Like I found some stuff, yeah. And then your assistant at the time Was like, oh no, he got Skittle water. He put Skittle.
Corey Calliet:I don't have Crystal. I got Skittle water.
Eric:Yeah. So I want to jump into Some quick little Quick hit questions and you just give me your answer. Favorite fast food McDonald's Big Mac. Oh man, okay, mcdonald's. Hey, we just had some Big Mac. Do you know? There's a Four patty Big Mac Right now? What.
Eric:Hit a menu, yeah, you gotta say like, hey, let me get the four patties. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, I ate it, bro, it was good. Uh favorite muscle group to work out shoulders shoulders okay, uh. Beach or inner city, inner city okay. Uh favorite alcoholic drink and non-alcoholic drink tequila and non-alcoholic. What is it?
Corey Calliet:non-alcoholic drink. Non-alcoholic zevia what is? That it's like a. It's like a. It's made out of stevia. It's a drink.
Eric:I always drink soda okay, um, movie theaters or movie at home. He's a big movie theater and honestly, he rebirthed my love for movies. We, we'll watch. When we're like a new movie out, we'll go watch one. And it's one of my childhood nostalgic feelings because that's all we did as a kid Favorite candy, oh damn, I don't know, just throw one out there. Come on, man, you taking too long on that one.
Corey Calliet:M&M's no, and Snickers and M&M's Okay.
Eric:And what if it's not chocolate Skittles? I got a surprise for you what I got a couple surprises.
Corey Calliet:Oh man Nigga came yeah.
Eric:Throw those. That boy came. Alright, we got one. We brought you all the versions. Isn't there one more? All of them. Yeah, oh man, yeah, we brought the. We brought you all the versions.
Corey Calliet:Isn't there one more? All of them, yeah, hey, hold on. Oh man, yeah, we brought the rainbow you brought the rainbow out.
Eric:All right, man, my man, I don't want you to eat these all at one time because I know you have to be an example, but we got. I'm going to do the yellow pack. Really, I was going to your favorite out of these original wild berry. I've never seen this. It's called the bright side, I know, and tropical, you know, because I gotta help actually introduce those. I sure did. Hey, skittles. Marshawn lynch is out the picture. I'm in the picture. Yeah, get cory kaya. He love these things. So these are yours bro we'll we'll here.
Eric:Let me toss these back to our producer, big d. Okay, that didn't make it. That kind of made it, and left-handed did not make it at all. Geez, well, good thing I never played baseball. Um, for for all of for all of the lady fans, would you ever do a magic mic? Absolutely?
Corey Calliet:absolutely. That is my dream in life to be on screen Rob Markman.
Eric:No way, no way, rob.
Corey Calliet:Markman. It's funny. So I had auditioned for this show on BET for that. It's like a male dancer, but I can dance and I like that type. I like to dance but I would never Rob Markman. Cue the music, I'm just saying Rob Markman, yeah, but I would never Cue the music I would. Yeah, man, they call it chocolate shit.
Eric:I'm going to be honest, man. That'd be probably the only time you won't get me as your camera guy.
Corey Calliet:I'm not there, I understand.
Eric:I'm not there. I understand, I'm feeling Okay, so now we're going to go through some. You're old soul and you know like I've DJed. I love music, I dance, shout out, you dance too. I'm going to hit you with some quick songs. Okay, and I want you to tell me what it reminds you of, where it takes you to. Okay, let's see Of course, back to that uh, huh that's, is that, like the anthem of New Orleans, that's New Orleans anthem okay it brought me back to high school okay, you weren't back in your ass were you no
Eric:okay, okay, let's get the next one in high school. High school and I, I wanted this one because this was a kind of a hitter for me. But uh, lil wayne in here, so I want to hit with two new orleans people. I remember that, yeah. But you know, lil wayne, a green bay packer fan, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he loved, he loved he loved that's.
Corey Calliet:That's elementary school yeah damn. That's elementary school. Sock hop.
Eric:You are pushing 40.
Corey Calliet:I'm out here, boy.
Eric:I feel like a lot of these songs come from your grandparents, your grandparents, your kids. They playing this. So you're like yo this one. Okay, let's get this next one. What were you? What were you thinking about?
Corey Calliet:I was living with my sisters in Shadowbrook.
Eric:Okay.
Corey Calliet:Watching my nephews badass Cleaning the house.
Eric:Listening to their shit. This might make me want to stop the podcast now. Just get it. Okay, what we got next? What we got next? I think we got one more.
Corey Calliet:That's all you had. I thought I had one more that was horrible. No, there's no way, that's all you had. There had to be a fifth. Come on, man.
Eric:That's all you had? No, I thought I did. Can you tell me? I thought there was a fifth man. You know what it was going to be, what the song that? I was looking it up and I thought I found it, the one with Migos. There was this song. He was saying you were just saying this song out of nowhere and I couldn't get it stuck in my head. I'd be driving home from LA, I'd be like whatever it was, but I'll find it.
Corey Calliet:I'll get it. I'll get it. It was on the last album.
Eric:I don't know. I just know it was Migos.
Eric:Where were we at? Anywhere, you know what, I'll find it. That video I have of you, that dance video when you're in the kitchen, I'll find it. I'm going to just have to to you, I'm gonna. I'll throw it in here at some point, like in the background, but, uh, okay. So so now we get a little nostalgic feeling going on. Um, we talked about your routine. What is, what is your typical routine throughout the week? And I mean to keep, uh like a work-life balance and also, um, I don't have a work-life balance.
Eric:Exactly, but talk about it, though, because a lot of people think you're supposed to find balance, but the truth is there really is no balance to life. You find a balance within the unbalance.
Corey Calliet:You find pockets. I was just speaking on this yesterday. I was saying that I don't have balance. I don't. Right now, I'm at a point in my career where I'm rebranding, rebuilding and venturing into new things and I'm having to learn and do everything all at once. It's literally trying to get through a storm while putting on a raincoat, rain boots and also putting an umbrella over your head while you're going through it. Knowing that the storm is going to be over, but you got to go through it to stay as safe as you can as dry as you can and protect yourself while going through that storm.
Corey Calliet:That's what I'm dealing with right now. Okay, and there is no balance in that. You have to get through it. So, you know, every day is me waking up in the morning, you know, starting my day training my clients and it training my clients. And it's not just that, because it's like I'm training my client, I'm, I'm waking up, I have to have calls, text messages, emails, get up you know, go train, start to eat train.
Corey Calliet:It's so much that I'm doing every day and right now, honestly, I'm not even looking for a way out. That's the reason why I'm going through this stuff and I'm dealing with it and I'm learning from it. I'm not looking for a safe zone? Yeah, Um, because I don't. When I'm finding that safe zone, it's taken away from something else. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:But I must understand that this is a process. This is not the end, all be all. This is a process and this process will help lead to something else, because anything that you go through, you take the discipline, things that you learn from and you try to get there with it. Yeah, you always learn from, you learn from and you know I don't have no down balance.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, I am a. I'm a machine right now, yeah, a machine even going to be on off. Yeah, and the only time it's off is when I'm asleep I think.
Eric:I think that, like you've been touched on a lot of good points, but one of the big things within this is that, um, balance. When you think you have balance, all it really is telling you you're finding too many comfort zones. And for the people that that have that, which in their content with areas, what makes people different between you and a regular person, or me and someone else and getting to where you're at, is that you recognize that you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable and man, you know this. I went through last year, man, for the first time I got comfortable when I was so used to being uncomfortable and I love that space in my life and I got back to that too. So so what I, what I want to ask you, is someone that that has, um, when you look at you, you're like man, this dude, this dude dude maybe think you might think this guy's intimidating or strong or tough.
Eric:And this is for men. This is for men out there, because I think I think we talk about things personally with this, but for for people that that are honestly, truly going through stuff, um, because mental health for men is is at an all-time high of people finally feeling comfortable to talk about it and talk about you personally. You don't have to touch on things. Allow yourself to be sensitive to your emotions, your feelings and your thoughts and being able to grow from that and not let things affect you in the typical way that men do go through things, acting like everything's okay when it's not.
Corey Calliet:You know, I experienced that falling and I say the only way to see clearly up, you have to fall. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:Because when you're looking down from being on top, you really can't see there's clouds. It's clouds when you're looking up, from being down, you can see clear as day. And one thing about me is I've overcame a lot of adversity and I've I've been mentally tough and I was a person that's like, if you're not gonna see me weak, you're not gonna see me. Yeah, but I don't have a problem with telling you when I'm going through something. But I'm. But the thing is, sometimes you're going through something, doesn't the way you're getting over it doesn't look like what other people do to get over it? Yeah, and being a man is hard, yeah.
Corey Calliet:It's hard, straight up. Being a black man is hard yeah, 100%. And when you come from certain circumstances and certain places and you never want to go back again, you're extra hard on yourself. And right now, being as mentally tough and having a mental fortitude that I have not having the will not to want to quit. Yeah. I can't give up on myself. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:I have to prioritize what I have to do for myself because I don't depend on nobody else. I also have someone to do it, for I have a 19-year-old kid, yeah, and not just to provide for her when it comes to financially, but I have to be a role model for her to see that anything is possible. That little girl saw me go from trying to figure it out donating plasma payday loans doing jobs, even working at the post office to be who I am today. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:If I failed, I let her down. Yeah, my mindset is different. I wouldn't be where I'm at if my mindset wasn't like this. Yeah. It's funny because I believe in God. Yeah, I believe in God, like.
Eric:I shout out God.
Corey Calliet:I, I literally like that's, that's my, that's my everything. And when I'm going through something I don't pray, lord, you know why this and why that. I said no. If this is what you had me to go through, let's get to it yeah um, because it's a lesson that's being learned inside of it and a lot of people, a lot of men, when they go to things they don't want to pay attention and learn the lesson from it. And another thing is it's, it's, it's being judged by others. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:When you're being judged by others, going through what? Some of the time it causes men to fail, but you can't lose. You can't lose. Focus on what's the purpose, which is getting out of the dark place. Yeah. A lot of times we listen to other people around us and focus on what's going on with them, and we don't get out of that dark place because we're too concerned about somebody else. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:If you can learn to focus on what you have to focus on, you will be this before I put others before me for a long time. Did it a long time.
Corey Calliet:And that's not good for your mental health. Yeah, but it's also just understanding that you know it will be greater later. It's always going to be better tomorrow. But, you have to live in a place of trying to be positive and keep moving forward and to be a testament to that and knowing you know the struggles that I've experienced and you know not having to want to depend on the amount of loss I experienced. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:I experienced some loss. Yeah, people close to me. But, I had to ask myself what was the reason. And the first thing I had to ask myself what did I do?
Speaker 4:Because a lot of us will point the finger fast. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:We'll point the finger fast. I started to do a good job at point. Let me look at me first. Let me check myself first and then let me have a conversation. And that ain't the easiest shit because I'm a bulldog. Sometimes Self-awareness, I'm stubborn, I could be mean, I could be loud. I'm not loud, I ain't a loud nigga. I could be mean, I could be aggressive and I have intention. That's me as a human. Yeah, and I have intention. That's me as a human.
Corey Calliet:Yeah, I say it's like I have a remote on it. I can either turn it on mute or I'm going to turn it on. And what I learned more about myself is that you know every situation that you go through is always a lesson, yeah, and you always have to focus.
Eric:And my thing is If you want to see the lesson, that's important, you got to want to see it, yeah.
Corey Calliet:You got to want to see it. Most people don't want to see it. No, because people hide from the truth. They don't want to hear the truth.
Eric:They don't want to look at themselves in the mirror, mm-mm.
Corey Calliet:The thing is, when you look at yourself in the mirror, there's two things you're going to do. You're going to either look at yourself and pay attention to yourself, or you're going to look at yourself and not see who you are inside that mirror. Yeah, it's another thing when you have somebody in the mirror looking at you, telling you all your faults and wrongs. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:And you're sitting there with your point, like you this and you that and this, why Look at yourself in the mirror. You probably can identify those things, but you have to identify those things on your own. Yeah, nobody can make you do that, and I think that you, you know, being in the space that men are in right now, trying to be vulnerable and trying to be understanding, trying to be emotionally intelligent and talk about their feelings and letting all these things out.
Speaker 3:That shit is not the easiest thing to do, because real talk we were.
Corey Calliet:We were meant to be hard and tough yeah if you think about it, we, when you, when you go back all the way, biblical days what men were supposed to be like and do? Yeah, we were meant to be. We were meant to be the one that stand in front. So you can't stand in front and have emotion. But now you have to learn how to find that balance. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Corey Calliet:No 100% and it hasn't been the easiest thing, but it's also something that I'm starting to learn and get better at and started to learn to understand, because sometimes it's easier to be happy and sometimes it's hard as hell to be happy. Yeah. And you got to find a sweet spot for it. But overall, man, just my mindset. I realize like it's very strong I am. I'm a tough person. I got a big heart. Yeah. But just mentally, like I built a strong mind and I won't be broken we're coming to the end of this.
Eric:I want to touch on, uh, real quick things. Uh, I I wanted to ask, like who's cory beneath the surface? But I feel like you went through so many things that that we we learned that you know, um, this one's important to me. I'm gonna, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say this first, and then I'm gonna ask you the question um, how important are friendships to you? One and um, I'm asking that because one we became really close and and and I would say that we've we've went through more of like a, a brotherhood of, we've been able to talk through things you know, like real men do, and get through stuff that tries to help level up the people that have been in your life, whether it's been since you were younger or you knew a friend, and I want to ask you what makes a good friend and why is that important to you?
Corey Calliet:So friendship is very important, because you choose your friends, your friends. You're not born with those people. Yeah. And my friends that I chose were like my family. Yeah. And I have a lot of, you know, different stages in my life. I've had different friends and friendships are very important to me because it's the people that I trust and it was a lot and I've learned a lot through friendships, because some friendships I thought was friendships but I actually was phonyships. Yeah, I just created that word.
Eric:I like that.
Corey Calliet:Phonyships yeah, we're going to use that that might work and I experienced, you know, I experienced what friendship really is, because the friends that's there for you are the ones that's there for you when you're not up. Yeah. I've experienced being down and lost people and friends, yeah. And what friendship meant to me before is deeper now. Yeah, because. I understand what the value of a friendship really is. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:And I don't hold too much like if you don't talk to somebody every day or you don't remember. You don't remember the exact date of birth there was. That don't mean that's not your close friend somebody you don't love. It's those times when it's hard. It's those times when you feel like you don't have nobody else yeah it's those times when you feel like you're sitting in the dark.
Corey Calliet:You got to have a word from somebody, those people that come through, not coming to judge you, not coming to save you, but coming to listen to you. Don't come save me, because I don't need saving.
Corey Calliet:I need you to understand me and that's what friendships mean to me, man, and it's important. I have a man but you, you becoming a real friend, a real friend, a brother to me and us being able to get through the things we had, because until you have a little uncomfortable situation with a friend, you don't know that nigga, you don't know him. Yeah, because the thing about it, as soon as people experience a little bit of adversity, they either go and fight or flight.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Most people like you said, they run, they're gone, they fly.
Eric:And I think it's what you get through with people and that shows how important they are and it also shows maturity and that shows how important they are and it also shows um, it shows maturity and it shows growth, um, and and for me personally, because we're on this topic um, I want to tell you personally thank you. You know, I'm saying I appreciate your friendship. Uh, you're one of the only people I call, outside of my, my actual big brothers. I call you a big brother. You know that. Um, you check up on me, I check up on you. Sometimes I'm like, oh, he calling about this and he's like I'm just checking up on you, making sure you're good, and I appreciate that from a brother level, a friend level and family. So, thank you, and not just that. You know, we've been in different states, cities, ubers, we've been moving around for a couple months, but we was on the go, yeah.
Eric:And you already know on the other things that I appreciate you on, so I just want to voice that. And as we're talking about this, I wanted just to kind of end with two things, and I try to do this when, when I shoot a podcast, cause I want you to have something there. You are a great dad and from my viewpoint, I'm not a dad I would love to be one at one point but you share a friendship with your daughter, not just and, and she'd be clowning you, I've been around it but you share a friendship with your daughter and she be clowning you I've been around it, but what? And she's a daddy's girl and a message to her that you would want her to keep forever, when she could look back on this.
Corey Calliet:My daughter would tell you when I said I said you have the, what she said, you have the ability to control the outcome of your situation. And I tell my daughter that for a reason, Because no matter whatever the situation is, you control it. Yeah, my child is a very, very good job. Yeah. And as she continues to grow and go through life, I always tell her to think with your heart first, I'm sorry. Think with your mind first and think with your heart to close it. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:Be logical, have emotion, but always choose right. Yeah. And when you do choose, you're going to have the ability to control that situation and I'm proud of my kid, Like that's really my dog, Like sometime I call, we got such a good relationship, bro. Every time I get off the phone I just call him be like what you doing, man, she's like nothing. You good, my daughter always checks. If you good, She'll tell me hey, dad, what's up? You good, I'm good, that's my daughter. Yeah.
Corey Calliet:Bro, when she was 19,. I brought her to school for her first day of school, first grade. Yeah, you know I remember doing her hair. I mean, like me and Camilla been rocking since I was 19.
Eric:That's what I'm saying. She's 19 now. Yeah, that's crazy.
Corey Calliet:You know what I'm saying.
Eric:Shout out to her.
Corey Calliet:Man I used to get like. I used to cry sometimes. Yeah, I swear, oh, I bet I'd be on the bed like missing my daughter when she came out here. Last time she came out here she was sleeping in the room and I just opened the door and I just looked.
Speaker 3:I just needed to see her be next to me yeah.
Corey Calliet:You know what I'm saying, and man, she like that's my sheesh.
Eric:She's your little best friend. Yeah, she's proud of you too. I know she is, and you already know that. She's proud of you too. I know she is and you already know that. So shout out to her. Your dad talk about you all the time and he's smiling and laughing. He make fun of you too. Last thing, I try to leave it with a good note, with something positive. Anybody doubting themselves, anyone going through something and might feel like the weight of the world is on their shoulders, they could be younger, older. What's your message to people that are feeling those things or going through those things?
Corey Calliet:The Bible says we endure through the night, but joy comes in the morning. It's only a moment. Don't allow a moment to stop your momentum. Yeah. Keep moving forward. Be truthful in your word. Believe in yourself. Trust yourself, everything will be okay. Find the positive and the positivity in anything and everything that you do, and everything shall come to pass. The world is really yours. If you want it to be. You got to trust and believe in yourself. Keep God first and always treat people well.
Eric:I love that. All right, I'm going to end it with things I always say Be unique by being you and make your day by making someone else's. I think it's a powerful thing to put people first, and it's a powerful thing to put people first and it's also powerful to be selfish in certain areas of life. So, corey, my brother, my friend, my family, we finally got this in. I appreciate you, man and shoot. I think that's it. Watch the next episode of Only Cool on Social. Check it out with Corey. You're going to learn some stuff about fitness, health, his life and man. Stay tuned. Check out the socials. Ooh yeah, only Cool on Social is at Only Cool on Social. You got Corey Kaye. It's just Corey.
Corey Calliet:Oh no it's Mr, so you can find me at Mr Kaye on Instagram, twitter, tiktok, facebook, and if you can't find anything else, just Google Corey Kaye.
Eric:There you go, you'll be there for a while my Instagram is lifeofevera E-V-E-R-A, you can follow my business page at the Creative Crew. Creative with a K, and then the podcast Only Cool on Social we out Woo.
Corey Calliet:That was good bro, that was good man. I like that you got me talking to my daughter. I'm about to start.
Eric:I know bro Jesus.
Corey Calliet:Christ, I start getting bored of it.
Eric:boy, I can't talk about Camilla like that but I that I was almost going to be like, hey, you know what, corey, I think it's time we stop talking about your daughter.
Corey Calliet:Boy, I get emotional about my kids. You know what, bro? I love that Because it shows you.