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The Power of Perseverance and Purpose with Inky Johnson | Ep. 19
Breaking generational curses and facing down adversity—these topics are at the heart of today's powerful conversation with Inky Johnson. Inky has an inspirational story to share, through a career-halting injury, to his rise as a motivational powerhouse. We delve into the importance of grace, discuss what it truly means to commit to one's goals despite overwhelming odds, and the profound impact of sharing our stories. Don't miss this one.
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Breaking generational curses and facing down adversity—these topics are at the heart of today's powerful conversation with Inky Johnson. Inky has an inspirational story to share, through a career-halting injury, to his rise as a motivational powerhouse. We delve into the importance of grace, discuss what it truly means to commit to one's goals despite overwhelming odds, and the profound impact of sharing our stories. Don't miss this one.
Follow Inky on Instagram
Learn more from Inky
Thank you for listening to today's episode. If this podcast has brought a smile to your face or sparked some new ideas, I'd love to hear from you! Leaving a review would mean the world to me. Appreciate you!
Connect with Tyler on Instagram: @tyler_deveraux
Interested in multifamily investing? Attend one of our events!
all right, aloha and welcome, man. I am very excited about today's episode. We have those of y'all who are watching on youtube you can already see, but in my book, man, we have one of the best speakers in the entire world and I would rank you like one of the best speakers in the entire world and I would rank you like top three speakers, communicators in the entire world. Wow, and you'll see today. You'll see as you listen, if you don't know this man and if you're listening and you don't know who this is. This is Inky Johnson. Inky. First, welcome to the podcast, man.
Inky Johnson:No, man, it's an honor man, Extreme honor, bro. Man, it's an honor man, Extreme honor bro. Got a lot of respect and admiration for you and so today, man, it's a privilege for me to be here with you. Thank you, man, Absolutely.
Tyler Deveraux:Glad you feel that way, because I'm grateful to have you here, man.
Inky Johnson:Thank you man.
Tyler Deveraux:And those of you you'll see Inky's one of the best communicators in the entire world. Just how you say things, man, you're so gifted with how you say things and I know that that is. I believe that you were called to do that, but I also believe it's something I know. It's something that you have worked at and dialed in, and I know you. You we've talked about how, when you go on drives, you see something and you, you know, and you give a presentation about it and it's like bro, I love that journey, right like.
Tyler Deveraux:I just love, like somebody who, who we're talking about this off camera but somebody who excels at any level and how you, you like you master that craft.
Inky Johnson:So oh, no question, excited to have you here, man.
Tyler Deveraux:There's so many directions and ways that I want to take this, but I'll start with this question. Man, you are one of the most inspirational speakers on the entire planet that you inspire me, dude, on a day-to-day basis. I've mentioned multiple things to you, but who inspires Inky Johnson? Like who is that person that's had a huge impact on your life? And where does the greatest you know motivator go to get motivation?
Inky Johnson:Man, you know it's interesting man, quite. Obviously my mom right, because that's somebody that I could see, touch and be with every single day. And I watched my mother and how she raised me right and the conditions that I was raised in and the mindset that she raised me with it was second to none. Right. I can honestly say I am the man that I am today because of my mother. You know, I watched my mother work a double shift at Wendy's. She never made an excuse. I watched when my mother didn't have reliable transportation and she still did what she had to do to get me to where I needed to get to. But also, man, you know, when you're younger and you think about life and the lens that you see it through. Also, man, you know, when you're younger and you think about life and the lens that you see it through, it's different. And so when my mother and my father you know they first brought me into the world, my father wasn't as present and so I didn't always value the relationship either, even when he came back around and he was trying to teach me certain things Right, and so our relationship started to get patched up. But it was a lot of sacrifices and a lot of things that my father did for me when I was younger that I didn't value because I had so much resentment and anger because his presence wasn't present at the time. But now the man that I am, the husband that I am, the father that I am, the grandfather, that my father is, the father that he is, my father inspired me.
Inky Johnson:Somebody asked me a question one day, tyler, and I thought about it when I had a son and I had never thought about this before, right, a gentleman asked me the question. He said what if your son treated you the way that your father, you know, acted with you when you were young, right? What if your son treated you that way? And I was like what do you mean by that? He was like you know, acted with you when you were young, right? What if your son treated you that way? And I was like what do you mean by that? He was like you know how you treated your father, even when he was trying to come back around in your life, and how you kind of resented him.
Inky Johnson:What if your son did that to you? I was like I don't know if I'll be able to take that. And he said now think about that. And your father still showed up and tried to force the relationship. And your father still showed up and tried to force the relationship. And I said I never thought about it that way. And so I would have to say my mother and my father, because of what they did for me when I was younger, but also present day, the people that they are, and the fight, the struggle and the opposition that we've had as a family.
Tyler Deveraux:Pro.
Inky Johnson:Yeah.
Tyler Deveraux:What a great answer, man.
Inky Johnson:Of course.
Tyler Deveraux:So much of that resonates with me, so much Like seeing a mom. My mom is a beast dude, no question. She's a beast, no question. And my dad is one of the. He's a great dude too, nice. What's interesting, what you just said is I had resentment towards my dad and I love my dad. My dad is literally like he has a great. He's a great dude, he has a great heart, nice, um. But one thing that stuck with me is that which is interesting is because what you just said it's like I know that I'm gonna make mistakes and I don't want my kids to hold those against me. Right, absolutely. So to have that open our bro, I love that. When did when did it like so, your mom? So when did that change for you, for your dad?
Inky Johnson:I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave it this way, and then we're going to get into some of your story, man.
Tyler Deveraux:There's so many questions I want to ask you. But when did that change, that perspective change, was it with that conversation you were telling me about?
Inky Johnson:Yeah, man, with the conversation and also, just, you know, living with opposition and adversity, man, and just watching people and how life unfolds. Like I always say to people, man, like when you live with adversity and opposition, it teaches you right, not only about yourself, it teaches you about other people. And so, just as I think and I reflect about life and me and my father's relationship, now, it was just a lot of things that I didn't see. Like I often say, sometimes you can't see the picture when you're in the frame, right, and it was a point in time in my life to where I was in the frame and I just couldn't see some of the sacrifices and some of the things that my father had done for me, because there was a level of emotion there and once I removed the emotion, me and my father had dialogue and our relationship became closer. And then I had kids and my father came in the picture even more and I just started to think about things different and had a perspective shift and it just made me look at things with a level of conviction about the man that I wanted to become and also man like I'm just a firm believer.
Inky Johnson:I subscribe to the train of thought. Everybody deserves grace, bro. You know what I'm saying. Like, everybody deserves grace, no matter where they are, what they've done, where they come from right, everybody deserves grace. And I always say to people if you haven't needed it yet, it's going to come a point in time to where you're going to need it and you're going to hope that people give it to you Right. And so, when you're in the position to give it, extend it.
Tyler Deveraux:Yeah, amen, man Amen. Some of the most impactful situations in my life are when people extended grace to me. You know, Absolutely so it gives you that different perspective. I love that.
Inky Johnson:No question, man, it's awesome, no question.
Tyler Deveraux:Bro, tell me about your journey. You know you talk about your mom and how she's one of your biggest inspirations and I know a lot about your story and I'm excited. If you don't know about Inky's story, put your freaking seatbelt on. It's incredible, but I believe a lot of what you did and have done and continue to do and you kind of even alluded to this, but it was because of that sense of responsibility, like it- would almost be disrespectful not to do that with all that your mom did and all that she grinded to you know to provide.
Tyler Deveraux:But tell me about your story, man. Where did you grow up? What are some challenges that you've seen and overcome?
Inky Johnson:Man grew up inner city Atlanta, born to my mother at 16. She took me back to Kirkwood that was the area in Atlanta southeast corner a two bedroom home, 14 people at 125 Warren and most of my family members, man, we were growing up in a condition to where we saw it all. We were exposed to it all at an early age and you know crime, everything, drugs. And it was a limited belief because most of my family members didn't graduate high school, right, didn't do much after school once they dropped out. And so when I came along as a kid, we're growing up in this two bedroom home with 14 people. I wanted to change that. And not only did I want to change it, I believed I could change it. And like I often tell people, man, like I'll never forget the first time I said to my cousins you know, we started playing football in the street and I'll never forget, bro. I said to him like man, I want to make it to the NFL. Like, if I make it to the NFL, you know, maybe we can get our own beds one day. Right, we just wanted our own beds. We sleeping on pallets. Right, like man, if I make it to the NFL, maybe we can get grandma a better living condition, my mom better living condition. And they listened to me, tyler, and it was like clockwork bro. They responded and was like yeah, that's cool, inc. But everybody in our family has even graduated high school. Like that's cool, bro. But like the answer was already in place, like yeah, that's cool, but the chances of that happening are slim to none, right, and when I heard it I knew it wasn't just a condition that I was facing, it was also a mentality that I was facing, right.
Inky Johnson:And I would always say to my cousins man, the idea, the idea is often more powerful than the person, right?
Inky Johnson:What do I mean by the idea is often more powerful than the person. The idea of me making it from two bedroom home, 14 people, single mother, right, going to college, first one in my family to go to college, coming from these extreme conditions, the idea that ideas in New York, that ideas in Hawaii, that ideas in Florida, that idea is in New York, that idea is in Hawaii, that idea is in Florida, that idea is in California. Not just a person, the idea, right. And so if I can do this, the idea of me being able to do that, like man, we'll break barriers and generational curses forever because of the idea. But it was a lot of levels of adversity and opposition that I had to face and a lot of people that I'm extremely grateful for that seem to come in my life at every next level and help me and fuel me to the next level to get through the opposition and adversity to become the man that I now am.
Tyler Deveraux:Bro, that part, no question, that part. Right there, the idea is more powerful than the person Absolutely Wow, like that's such a powerful than the person Absolutely Wow, like that's such a powerful thing to. And that's on both fronts right, that can go positive or negative right.
Tyler Deveraux:Absolutely. So what do you think? Why do you believe, like your idea that you had of, like hey man, your belief right, like I'm going to go and change this narrative for my family. Like what made you believe that you could do that Nobody that you knew believed that. What made you believe like I'm that dude? I?
Inky Johnson:could do that. Yeah, because I felt like if I didn't do it, it wasn't going to be done, like I feel like it comes along in organizations, it comes along in families, it comes along with teams, to where you have an individual or you have individuals and they have the capacity for the journey. It's a lot of people that got the talent and the skill, but they don't have the capacity for the journey right. What I mean by the capacity, the things that you have to face in order to sustain, to get to where you're trying to get to on the journey.
Inky Johnson:And so, for me, I felt as if if I didn't do it, it wasn't going to be done and I had to make pivotal decisions and choices in my journey that I felt could benefit my family, one of being when I got to high school, todd, I was an athlete man. I was pretty, pretty decent, I could play, and people came to my parents and it was like hey, man, you transfer in to our school, make sure he go to college, get a scholarship. Hey, man, you transfer Ink to our school, make sure he go to college, get a scholarship. Like it'll be all good, right, and to them it's a big deal because, nobody in our family has went to college.
Inky Johnson:And so they're listening like, hey, ink, this is it, man. Like let's just go to Tucker High School, go to another school so you can go to college. And I'm at a place that's one of the lowest performing public schools in the state, not just Atlanta in the state and people weren't going to college. And so I'm saying to them nah, I can make it from CRIM. And they're like man, come on Inc. Like bro, like here's your ticket. Like, take your ticket, go, get it. Like, go, make it happen. Right.
Inky Johnson:And at the time I always tell people they transferred me, tyler, and when they transferred me from Crim it hurt me, man, because I processed it wrong. I thought they didn't believe in me, right. But once I got kids, I looked at it totally different, right, because they were making a lot of sacrifices as well. And so they were looking at the situation like, oh man, we're making these sacrifices, let's put them in a position to make it happen. And so when I got to the school I'm not proud of it, but I really didn't go to class I was sitting in front of the school with a cop and I was like, hey, man, like I just don't want to be here. And he was like man, just go to class and get your scholarship and ride out. I was like no man, I need to go back to CRIM and make it.
Inky Johnson:And everybody in the situation got tired of trying to convince me and so they finally transferred me back to CRIM and I went to college from CRIM High School and it was a big deal, right, not only because I wanted to go to college. I wanted to break a generational curse in my family. Nobody in my family had went to college. Right, with my friends at the school, I wanted to show them like nah, bro, we can make it from here. Like I know what the world is saying, I know, when they look at where we come from, what they say. But nah, we can do it.
Inky Johnson:And if I would have went to college from Tucker High School, it would have been great. But guys go to college from there every single year. Like, go to college from there every single year, like it's nothing, it's the norm there. It's not the norm to do it from crim, with the conditions that versed in the opposition. And so when I did it, my friends started going to college, my cousins went to college. It changed generations right. But I had to be the one willing to go over the hill with the white flag, take the bumps, take the bruises, have the capacity to say no, we can do this. And there's several decisions and choices that have to be made along that journey. That's going to seem crazy, that's going to seem wild, but when you know, you know and you have to be willing to accept whatever comes with it.
Tyler Deveraux:Bro, that's unbelievable. It's unbelievable to me that you were thinking like that at what's this 15? Yeah, absolutely A teenager. It's just. It's just you're. You're different, you're different and I feel like, like I feel that from watching and diving into your content but, bro, meeting you, I'm impressed with the communicator you are, I'm impressed with the speaker you are, with the athlete that you know that and like the dad that you are.
Tyler Deveraux:But like that kind of stuff, like the person you are and the heart that you have is what, like sets you apart. That, I believe, is your superpower and it's what you were called to do for a reason. It's like, and that's what I want people to pull from this, this actionable that you just said why did you want to go back to cream? Because it wasn't about going to just. It wasn't about going to just. It wasn't about just going to college. It wasn't about just, it was about or just going to the NFL. It was about changing the narrative for your family, breaking generational curses, and so purpose has to transcend self and you had such a deep rooted purpose that has transcended self and like the impact that you've made from there.
Inky Johnson:It's crazy. Man, absolutely man.
Tyler Deveraux:How that has changed your family, how that's changed the narrative, right unbelievable man. And you know, I believe that that prepares you for just for just so much. I just believe that this is this we're talking about this off camera too but, like, I just believe that it's this success principle that you, you, you, take ownership for not only your journey, but the journey of all those that follow you, you know it's like extreme ownership man, you know what I'm saying Like you own everything that comes along with it, because the purpose and the mission is more important than the opposition.
Tyler Deveraux:Yeah.
Inky Johnson:Right, like I often used to ask people, man, is the mission stronger than the opposition? Right, we got a mission. We got something we want to do. We got something we want to accomplish. Will it be stronger than the opposition and adversity that comes to see you along the journey? Right, because life is always going to come back. Right, you got a goal, you got a dream, you got an aspiration. You want to do something for your children, you want to do something for your mother, you want to do something for your company. As soon as you put it out into the atmosphere or the world or the universe, life is always going to hit back. Life is always going to punch back, life always going to send you back them body blows, just to see. Let me see how bad he wanted. Like you said, you want to pay for your kid's college, cool, right. Multifamily months, okay, cool, you say you want to do it. Let's see. I'm going to hit you. Let's see where you hit back. Will you fight back? Right, I remember a cop telling me like when he asked me what's your plan, little man? Man, I plan on going D1. Right, I'm just putting it out. That's me putting it out to the atmosphere. I'm going to go D1. Cop responds back you probably go to cell block D1. I didn't expect to hear that. Yeah, that was life hidden back.
Inky Johnson:Right when he said it he walked off. I walked with him, tapped him on his shoulder. I thought it was a mistake. I'm like I've never seen this guy before in my life. Surely he thinks I'm somebody else. I was like hey, man, I got to think you got the wrong guy. He's like no, I know about you. He was like you had uncles coming to the same school. I was like yes, sir. He said they play ball just like you. I said yes, sir. He said aren't they serving time in prison? I was like yes, sir. He said the apple don't fall too far from the tree, right, I was like man, I'm telling you you got the wrong guy. He said we'll see. I said we will right.
Inky Johnson:And the first person I went to see after I got my scholarship papers to play football at the University of Tennessee was that cop. He was on lunchroom duty. I slid the paper across the table to him. I'll never forget, tyler. He stood up. He said you thought when I said that to you I was trying to crush you. I said yeah, man, I came across that way. He said don't get it twisted. He said I've been at this school before you got here. I'm going to be here after you leave.
Inky Johnson:He said I heard so many people say what they were going to do. He said so. When I said that to you, life hidden back, I was just seeing where you're going to retreat and say you know what, man, you're probably right. Due to my conditions and my circumstances and my situation, you're probably right. I just said it to see would you retreat? Or when I walked off, would you walk with me, tap me on my shoulder and say nah, bro, I think you got the wrong guy right. Life is always gonna hit back, right? People are resilient man. I tell people often people are amazing man and more times than not, it's not that a person doesn't have what it takes, it's that sometimes you don't realize it's gonna take everything you got. Yeah, there we go, bro it's just going sometimes it's some things.
Inky Johnson:It's just gonna take everything you got tears, blood, sweat cuts, bro. It's just gonna take everything you got Tears, blood, sweat cuts. It's just going to take everything you got, yeah. And if you stop in the midst of the opposition and adversity, you'll never get to witness the greatness. That's it, man, the manifestation right, breaking generational curses. Yeah, you'll never get to witness that if you stop in the middle of the journey. Amen.
Tyler Deveraux:That's, and don't man, if you stop in the middle of the journey, man, I just love that man and you can't. I want to go a couple routes with that because you can't rob yourself of that. I think the one thing that sets you apart is, like you know. It's not the setbacks, it's not the challenges. It's that you don't expect that there's going to be setbacks and challenges. I believe so many times our biggest problems is we expect we shouldn't have problems.
Inky Johnson:We're going to have problems, and if you just expect it.
Tyler Deveraux:Then a problem comes, or a challenge comes, or somebody knocks you down and you're like, oh shit, yeah, I expected this. Yeah, absolutely.
Inky Johnson:Yeah, yeah, no, I planned for this. I'm that dude because of this.
Tyler Deveraux:Absolutely, bro. Do you think? Puts those situations into our life to prepare us those same, different ways?
Inky Johnson:Absolutely. I think there's always preparation before the journey or the victory. So I think oftentimes, in terms of when I see something, I'm the type of person that wants to understand, like, even with us hanging out, I'll stop you when you'll share something with me or show me something and be like, hey, Tyler man, what was the thought process behind creating this? Or T, what was the thought process behind doing this? That's just how I think, right. And so when I read a scripture like James, chapter one, and it says consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, when you face trials of many kinds, because the testing of your faith goes on to produce perseverance, and perseverance must finish its race so that you may be complete and lacking nothing, Then I read a quote like King's quote that says you judge the true character and caliber of a person not by where they stand in times of comfort and convenience.
Inky Johnson:You judge the true character and caliber of a person by where they stand in times of challenge and controversy. When I see that, it makes me think like, oh, it's necessary for me to become the individual that I'm destined to become Now. I didn't always think about it this way, even with my own injury, Like in the midst of it. I was like man, what is this Like? How did this happen? And once I got to a place of clarity and peace, I was able to look back and literally connect the dots and see the preparation right. But I couldn't see it in the midst of it. Yeah, but I firmly believe man, god prepares us long before the journey or the battle even happens yeah, that's beautiful man.
Tyler Deveraux:Absolutely my favorite quotes of yours is, in fact, I should one of my like keynotes that I do like this I don't know what's the word I'm looking for, but the presentation that I give is one of my favorite ones. It's like three days that I'm teaching and the very last thing that I leave people with is your quote, bro, and I've done it for five years or something. Wow. Every single time I end, I end with your quote.
Tyler Deveraux:Which commitment means staying more than what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said on his left right. Absolutely Bro that changed me as a person.
Inky Johnson:It did.
Tyler Deveraux:It changed me as a person because, like you said, the true character comes out not when everything is going great, it's when that challenge hits like who are you then? Who are you then right? And at that moment, if you could be like okay, like this is, this is a test yeah, man like okay, this is a test, absolutely okay, I'm right, let me, if I can overcome this question, what I'm gonna help all the people overcome oh question so I'm talking about some of your challenges in your life.
Tyler Deveraux:Right, you talk about your inner, in your injury. Uh, let's, if you don't mind, we'll go there, absolutely. So you uh, paint this picture, you make it, do you make it? D1 to tennessee man. Yeah, man bro, you play what? 10 games as a freshman? Right, crazy, man, crazy, tennessee. Like yeah, man bro, yeah. And then it's your sophomore year and, once again, what's the goal? The goal isn't just to go to college. The goal is to break generational curses and take care of your family. Right, make sure that your mom's set up, your grandma's set up, your family's set up, your grandma's set up, your family's set up. Yeah, man, you're in the film room. Coach walks in, tells you you're going to make it Absolutely, and then take me from there.
Inky Johnson:Yeah, my junior year man playing football at a very high level. This is the crazy thing Like as a freshman to come in. If you would have looked at our freshman class, I probably would have been the last guy that somebody would have said, yeah, that guy's going to play this year. I probably would have been the last guy smallest, I'm like soaking wet, like almost touching 160. Like I probably would have been the last guy in that class they would have pointed at and said, yeah, you're probably going to play this year right and I was one of the first right, played a lot of special teams, got in in some packages as a defensive back right, just experience.
Inky Johnson:And so played my sophomore year, obviously starting like break the starting lineup. So my junior year I'm this projected draft pick sitting in the film room watching film Assistant coach Larry Slade. Comes in two sheets of paper. One states I'm about to graduate in three years. The other states I'm going to project it Top 30 draft pick, right. So I go out of the room, call my mother and grandmother, tell them like man, this is it, this is what we've been working for. I'm about to do what I got to do. Y'all ain't got to worry about it. These next 10 games we locked in right, we done came too far to come this far right. And like I tell them, like our life is about to change forever. And, man, I go out. My junior year first game, great game. We get the victory. I play great. Second game, playing against Air Force.
Inky Johnson:Fourth quarter rolls around, find ourselves in a dogfight, two minutes left in the game and I go to make a routine tackle. Of course I'm playing corner and at the point of contact when I hit him, bro, my life changed forever. It seemed as if literally everything in my body left. I'd never felt anything like this before. It felt like I just lost all. It felt like my soul, like it felt like I just lost all. It felt like my soul left my body, if you will. And when I hit the ground I had blacked out. And then I came to and I just couldn't move. It was a shock going down my whole body and I remember my teammates running over because I was one of these guys. I was kamikaze. Right, I'd go and hit a guy, get knocked down. I was that guy that I'll be laying there. My guy would stand over me. I'd be like let's go, bro, and I'd pop up. You know what I'm saying. And so they were so used to that. So when they came over to me, I was like Ink, let's rock. And I was like I can't. They was like what you mean, you can't? You always get up Like let's go. I was like I can't move, and I'm sure they had never heard that either. And so they were like what you mean you can't move. Like come on, bro, you can nurse your injury.
Inky Johnson:After the game I was like man, there's a shock going from the crown of my head to the bottom of my feet. I can't feel anything. And that's when they brought the spine board out and the shock eventually left my body, but it stayed in my right arm and hand hand and they put me in the ambulance. They told me they were going to get me over to the hospital Things are going to be protocol and they go and they run tests and they bring me back into a room and that's when the doctor said hey, man, we got to rush this kid back to emergency surgery. He's about to die. And I was like what happened? And he was like you ruptured the main artery in your chest, you're bleeding internally. Got to rush you back and take that main vein out of your left leg, plug it into your chest in order to save your life.
Inky Johnson:And the next morning I woke up, bro, I had six incisions down my left thigh, one incision across the left side of my neck, one across the right, twice through my right ribs cut out my right pec, bottom of my armpit to the bottom of my hand. 350 staples bandaged me from my neck to my knees. And they said when we went in to repair the artery, we noticed you had torn the nerves in your brachial plexus, I was like what's that? It was like that's the nerve roots that go from your spine, that control shoulder arm hand. They said think about it this way Ink, when you plug something into a wall, that's how the brachial plexus goes into the spine. But once you pull it out they can't go back in. And so we hate to inform you, man, arm in hand, probably never be the same again.
Inky Johnson:Football, strong possibility. You're done. And I couldn't believe it, bro, like I was like man, no way. Right, because it stopped in a moment. Right, I was eight games away from a dream I had been chasing from seven until 20 years old and it just stopped, like the movie. I tell people all the time. The movie just stopped and I had to be redirected. And that moment, tyler man, that moment taught me so much man, but it came with so much pain, but it taught me so much that I wouldn't change it.
Tyler Deveraux:Yeah, yeah.
Inky Johnson:Yeah.
Tyler Deveraux:Bro. Yeah, this is where I think this one of the most impactful parts of your journey happens, though, because it's when Inky Johnson became Inky Johnson. Right, absolutely I've seen those multiple times in your life that that happens but September 6th, september 9th 2006. Absolutely, happens, but um september 6th, september 9th 2006, absolutely like. People are coming in and I remember I remember hearing you at one point saying they're like they're asking you like hey man, how you doing right?
Tyler Deveraux:absolutely and I want everyone to hear this like what was your reaction? So just picture this right, everything. The ink is just laid out for you, this dream that he has, this he's on. What was your reaction? So just picture this right, Everything that Inky's just laid out for you, this dream that he has, he's on the journey, he almost tastes it because he sees it right. And then it's like you said the movie stops, and so these loved ones are like hey man, how are you?
Inky Johnson:And what's your reaction to that? In that moment, yeah, I'm blessed, I'm good. Moment, yeah, I'm blessed, I'm good man, I'm blessed, all right, like I just believed it, man, like I'm, I'm good, I'm blessed. And like me, saying that didn't mean everything was going to turn out the way I wanted it to. Yeah, right, it was just saying, like, all right, man, in this moment it may not be what I want it to be, um, it may not turn out the way I want it to turn out, but I'm here, and so, if I'm here, I got a shot. Right, I got a chance, like I could still fight. And so I was like man, I'm blessed, I'm good, I'm blessed, I'm ready to go.
Inky Johnson:And it was like Ink, what do you want? Like you can't play anymore, what do you want? I was like man, can you give me a Dunjoy sling and a Velcro strap? And it's like, but you can't play. I was like it's not about a game, it's like so what is it about? It's me finishing what I started, like, that's what it's about. Like you said, commitment, staying true to what I said I would do, long after the move that I've set it in has left. Yeah, right. And so I still wanted to graduate, which I did. I still wanted to go and fulfill obligations with my team, which I did, and that wasn't in spite of opposition and adversity. It was about me finishing what I started. Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Tyler Deveraux:Bro, that's like such a huge separator at that moment and the fact that that's how that moment and, um, the fact that that's how that, that was your thought in that moment absolutely is incredible, right and just the fact I believe that just the fact of even voicing I'm blessed, absolutely, man, I mean bro, yeah, it shows massive faith, yeah absolutely massive faith and uh, faith is. Oh yeah, faith is is beautiful man.
Inky Johnson:No question, faith is beautiful because it's all about perspective. You know, that's it, man. That's a game changer. I tell people often, man, like I firmly believe perspective drives performance. How we view what we do will always affect and impact how we do what we do. And I often say to people when you have things that you want to accomplish or do, like we talk a lot about, why, right, why do a person do what they do? Right, find your why. And I often ask people does your why? Transcend situations, circumstances, opposition, adversity, conditions, uncertainty, like, does it transcend so you can continue in spite of what you may face? Yes, right, like.
Inky Johnson:The reason I wanted to finish is because I told my mother and my grandmother I'm going to be the first one in our family to graduate college. Yeah, right. I said that. I didn't say unless my right arm and hand gets paralyzed. I said I was going to graduate college, right. And so I still had an obligation to graduate college. I was right-hand, dominant, had to go to disability services, learn how to write with my left hand right, came out with a couple of degrees. I told my teammates man, I'm going to be a great teammate, right? I didn't say unless I make it to the NFL right. Unless I get injured. I'm never coming to another meeting right.
Inky Johnson:And people put so many limitations based upon conditions, circumstances and what they may be facing and external factors. I tell people often, man, like, don't limit yourself. Right, if it's something that you want to do, don't let it be predicated upon what you may face. Right. Like, get it done In spite of the opposition and adversity. Press forward right. They got to take my life before they take my drive One of the greatest lines I've ever heard. You know what I'm saying. Like, press forward. And so me doing some of these things.
Inky Johnson:It wasn't because I was some strong, like incredible person. I was attached to certain things that fuel me and I needed those things. That was my ecosystem in terms of how I operated and how I did what I did. Like I needed my team. That's my ecosystem in terms of how I operated and how I did what I did. Like I needed my team. That's why I wanted to get out of the hospital and get back around them. I needed them. They feed like they fed me. I needed to be around my guys.
Inky Johnson:Like I tell people all the time like man, do you miss playing at Bama, florida, all these stadiums, lsu, I'm like man, I was great, I said. But what I miss the most, like my people, my guys, like that's the secret sauce, right, the people that we show up, we work, we battle and we scrap with every single day. That's what got me out of the hospital. I needed to be back in that complex and when I walk across that turf they look at me and be like that's Ink bro, he here, like he in his Velcro strap and his Dunjoy sling, but our guys still here, battling. Right, I needed to see them still battling because we fed each other and so people, man, people may forget what we do, people may forget what we say, but people will never forget the way we make them feel, right, no question man Dude, it's reciprocal man.
Inky Johnson:It's reciprocal.
Tyler Deveraux:You question man you showing up, made them show up even more right, absolutely. And it's crazy because I always say that your why has to transcend self. But hearing you talk about that, I think it opened my eyes a little bit of of to why it has to transcend self. And it's because I believe that life is about connection, human connection, absolutely. It's what life is about. So why does your why have to transcend self? Cause it helps you connect with other people, no matter what the circumstance is.
Inky Johnson:No, matter what the challenge is Right.
Tyler Deveraux:Absolutely Helps you connect to those people. And, bro, so do you? Do you believe, because I've heard you talk about how these challenges you face right in life they're gonna come, you're gonna have the body blows, absolutely, but those are not meant to be. You know how do you say? You said something like it's not pain but it's preparation, or something absolutely okay so is that experience that you had on, you know, september 9th 2006?
Tyler Deveraux:is that the biggest challenge that you've faced, or do you believe that that was a challenge that has prepared you for bigger challenges down the path?
Inky Johnson:Yeah, absolutely. I, uh, in the midst of it I thought, like man, I'll never face anything else like this. And, um, present day, I haven't faced anything just like that. But I've had other challenges that I feel like dealing with that challenge has prepared me for the other challenges that I've faced in my life. Like you say, like I always say this, man, like it's not pain, it's not punishment, it's preparation, right when we process it in the right way, when we get to a place of peace, to where we can use it. Right when we look at it with the right perspective. Because I'll never forget, man, I said to a guy I was like man, it felt like I was just in a fight, like a boxing match, and a guy just KO'd me.
Inky Johnson:That's what my injury felt like. I was just in a boxing match, right, just the journey of it. And somebody just KO'd me right. And I'm on the mat and I'm looking at my guy counting me out right One, two. And I'm looking at my guy count me out right One, two and I'm looking up at him like man, this was a vicious blow. And I get up right before he's about to wave it off and I'm like all right, inc. Shake out of it, let's fight, let's go, pull yourself together.
Inky Johnson:And a guy said to me. He said, man, you know something that's cold-blooded. I was like what's that? He said life is going to hit you like that again, believe it or not, in a different capacity. You're going to go through something like that again and it's going to feel that way again. But the previous challenges that you face are going to help you process it and look at it different and know that it's going to propel you for the next challenge.
Inky Johnson:But oftentimes, when we're in the midst of things, things can be so tough that we want to understand it Right. And it's natural. I tell people often man, you can go through something so real like and it can blindside you. Life sends blindside shots, blindside shots right To where you're doing your thing. Life is going great and your wife can get hit with something Right. One of your children can get hit with something, one of your parents can get hit with something.
Inky Johnson:Just out of the blue, man, Somebody can wake up and like life can just hit you with something. You're like man, where did this come from, right? And life sends so many of those shots that when it happens you're like what is this? I want to understand it and I tell people often, man, just survive it Right, survive it day by day, moment by moment, condition by condition, situation by situation. And then when you get to a place of peace, right to where you go and you sustain and you're good, then you look back and you connect the dots and you figure out how to use it to add value to every environment you go into, in every person's life that you come in contact with.
Tyler Deveraux:Human connection, all right, say that part again.
Inky Johnson:Say that part again. That part is, bro. Will you say that part again?
Tyler Deveraux:Absolutely About surviving it. Yeah, about using that reflecting back using that to benefit others.
Inky Johnson:Like I want everyone to listen to this.
Tyler Deveraux:This is gosh, man. That's one of the most powerful things that I think it's one of the most powerful things I've heard you say, because it drives you to put the next step forward. Absolutely, man, yeah, man.
Inky Johnson:It's about surviving it, right? So when you get to a place of peace and a place to where you sustain, then you can figure out how to use it to add value to the environments you go into and the people lives that you come in contact with. Right, the good book says it we're overcomers by the blood of the lamb word of our testimony. That's why, when we go through struggles and challenges, it's important to fight to get through them. So, when we get to a place of peace and somebody comes and shares something that we've had a similar experience, even if it's not specific, we can identify with it and we feel certain things from it.
Inky Johnson:Like a person can share something with you, you get goosebumps like bro, like wow, man, I had something that gave me the same emotions. Right, let me tell you how I got through it, not telling them. You got to apply my model to what you're dealing with, but I've dealt with something that's given me similar emotions and this is how I got through it. So, bro, if this can add value to your journey, take it. Do what you will with it, right? That's important.
Tyler Deveraux:It's important man, that that's exactly what just happened to me. When you said that it's like I can resonate with it on so many different levels and all of a sudden I flash back on these different things that have you know, these different challenges that that, uh, I've received a lot of. Like you said this in the beginning, I can't remember if it was on camera, off camera, but you know, you see things that have been put together and people like, oh, that just happened, it's like there's massive challenges man and that's just this side.
Tyler Deveraux:Like my life, there's massive challenges. All of a sudden, I flash back to those things. I'm like, oh my god, like those things are. Like those things are what helped me connect with and impact others. Right, those challenges have prepared me and put me in a position to impact and help others, and, um, I'm grateful for that you know, absolutely I'm grateful for that.
Inky Johnson:Yeah, man, that's a it's a big deal.
Tyler Deveraux:What you just said, bro, is like I told you like I? Was telling him I just want to stand up man, it's like I want to stand up and just freaking. You make me want to run through walls bro, that's important now, you guys know and I didn't even say this in the beginning. I got dude. Now you know, Now you know, you already did know, but Inky's going to be with us at Peak Partnership. Yeah, man.
Tyler Deveraux:Now you know, he's that dude. He's that dude. He just sees things from a different perspective. He can help you see it from a different perspective, and I love that about you, man. Thank you, man. I love that about you. Thank you, man. I love that about you. Thank you, man. I want to ask you a couple more questions, if you don't mind. Up to you, talk about the process, right, the process over the product, and listen those of you who I want you to listen to what he's going to talk to about this. I want you to listen to what he's talking about here, because there are messages that are shared and this is the message that I know you need to hear. This is the message that I need to hear all the time. And, if you don't mind, talking about the, that's what you call it. Right, the process of the product? Absolutely, yeah, riff on that.
Inky Johnson:Man. Yeah, so I talk often about process over product right, like locking into the process of what we do and not allowing it to be predicated upon the outcomes of what we do right, even though the outcomes are great, whether it be results, whether it be certain products that we're pushing, certain things that we want to do. But the thing that we can never do is allow and dictate how we show up, what we do, how we operate, to be predicated upon the product right and in my world the product is outcome right, because what happens is it becomes dangerous. Tyler, when you're just product-driven right, outcome-driven right, you neglect self, you neglect personal development, you neglect family. I would say to people often be careful, when you're reaching for the stars that everybody you love, don't get burned up by the heat right, and people will hear that and be like oh man, what you mean by that? Well, you can pursue success and pursue getting to the top of the mountain, and your family, the people that you work with, your coworkers, they can get burned up by the heat right. It's the quote that says be careful you're not becoming a public success and a private failure. Right, your talent and skillset can ascend you to a place that your character can't sustain. You, right, talent and skill set ascend you to a place that's the product, that's the outcome. You get it, you capture it, you crush it. Right, but you become a private failure because you neglect the process of personal development. You neglect the process family man. You neglect the process fatherhood. All of these things of which we've all done at some point or another.
Inky Johnson:I did it early on as a speaker right, running and gunning, and you get to a point to where you encounter something and then you go back and you reevaluate right, that's the thing about me. I'll never speak about something that I haven't encountered personally. Right, made a lot of mistakes early on in my journey. Right, trying to get to a certain level. I'll never forget when I first broke into an industry, in the NFL. Right, had a gig in New York Early on. Speaking, never spoken to NFL before.
Inky Johnson:I was about to get paid more money than I'd ever gotten paid before at the time and I'm like, oh man, this is about to change the game for me, right, and the date fell on my wife's birthday, right. And I'm like, man, dang it. Right. And I'm like, oh man, my wife would be cool with it, I'm going to dress it up, right, I'm going to make it sweet, right. So when I brought it to my wife, I had already dressed it up, made it sweet and I've been rocking with my wife since we were young man, like fifth grade, so she knows me, I know her Right. So when I bring it to her she's like OK, like I was like you think it's cool, right, on your birthday I can send you and grandma to the spa. I'll go up, do the gig, fly back, be all good, go to dinner that night. So, yeah, go.
Inky Johnson:I should have known when she was like, yeah, go, I should have known it was too smooth. I should have known and I was so blinded by the opportunity, the money that the opportunity was giving me, what I thought it was about to do for my career, that I went and the day played out exactly how I wanted it to play out Went, spoke, gig went great, got paid, went back, took my wife out to dinner Beautiful day, right, I would say. Two days later I was doing something with clothes in a dryer or something. Right, it's a small situation. Might've been a sock or something right, my wife blows up on me. I had never even seen this side of my wife before. I'm like what, who is this person? Right, and I knew immediately. I was like that's the birthday situation. She felt like I didn't value her birthday. She felt like I value the money and the opportunity over her birthday and I got it right. Now it's going to be moments along the journey to where there's sacrifices to be made and you communicate with your spouse and your family member and y'all are, you know, on one accord and you get that done.
Inky Johnson:But I always say to people if you're not careful, process over product if you're not careful at certain stages and phases of your life, you have things that serve you well and they're your advantages, right, they work well, like for me. My mental toughness, my fortitude has always been an advantage for me. My ability, my capacity, my ambition it's always been an advantage for me. I've always been a guy. I can come out the gate and I can go like a thoroughbred. I can take my bumps, my bruises and ain't going to get to the finish line. Right, I was the guy we can come out and you'd be like, hey, ain't you going to meet me at the mountain? I'd be like T, I'm going to see you at the mountain, bro, go do your thing and you can bet your bottom dollar when you get to the top of the mountain. Your guy got a wife and I got kids.
Inky Johnson:I was still operating by that same model. I still had that same thought process, still had the same ambition. There's nothing wrong with it. It works well. You just have to channel it. And I hadn't channeled it. Yes, so I was doing a lot of destruction along the journey because my advantage was becoming my disadvantage and I had to go back and I had to retool the toolkit. Yes, right, so absolutely, man Process over product, rock into the process and don't focus so much on the outcome.
Tyler Deveraux:Your advantage was now becoming your disadvantage and you have to retool. That's why growth, absolutely, is nonstop bro.
Inky Johnson:Do you know the first?
Tyler Deveraux:time I heard you tell that story First time I heard you tell that story was because I asked you a question at RIT Yep. I said with everything that you got going on. How do?
Inky Johnson:you balance Absolutely and I remember that.
Tyler Deveraux:Yeah, I remember that your answer to that, because what you? I don't even know if you know this part of it, but I had the same conversation with my wife for that trip. Hey, man there's this great opportunity. Man, I'm going to go, you know, ed.
Inky Johnson:Andy, you got to St Louis.
Tyler Deveraux:Ink's going to be there.
Inky Johnson:I'm like I got to go.
Tyler Deveraux:It's like what's your thoughts? I packaged it up perfectly. No question, it was our anniversary. And when I asked you that question. It was the day before my anniversary, so I was going to be gone, for our anniversary. And, bro, when I tell you you've impacted my life, it's not just business, it's not just bro. My most important relationships in my life are my wife and my kids, and you've impacted my relationship with my wife and my kids. I love you forever, bro.
Tyler Deveraux:I will love you forever for that, and I want you to really hear that and internalize that, because I called my wife that night and right after the class, right after, like the event right, and apologized, wow, and she cried because my wife is the most supportive, loving patient. She's a beast, no question she's a beast, and I take advantage of that, sometimes Not intentionally.
Inky Johnson:Right, absolutely.
Tyler Deveraux:Meaning. I just I feel like I took advantage of it and when she started to cry, then I started to cry and the impactful thing that you said from it was not just the problem but the solution. And what you said was now. What I do now is I schedule family time first, Absolutely, and then I fit my work around it. Absolutely, Because they're the priority, Absolutely and I want to be clear because what you said, there are going to be times where sacrifices need to be made.
Inky Johnson:Absolutely, got to make them absolutely.
Tyler Deveraux:Sacrifices are absolutely critical to any success and anything we ever do in life. But listen that he at that point in my journey. And bro, that was last year. Wow, I had to retool, I had to change. And, bro, I put Date nights in Scheduled first.
Inky Johnson:Before anything else, absolutely.
Tyler Deveraux:My kids. I have a meeting Every Monday at noon. She comes in the office, we plan and we prepare Nice, and Tuesday night we go to date night.
Inky Johnson:Nice, do we have it in there, right? Yeah, man.
Tyler Deveraux:I love you for that.
Inky Johnson:I appreciate that man. No man, I'm with you. Thursday night is my day. I do Thursday date nights. You know what I'm saying. I love it, but no, that's so true, man, and thank you for sharing that bro.
Tyler Deveraux:Thank you, bro.
Inky Johnson:That means a lot man.
Tyler Deveraux:Hey, I want to end with this, if you don't mind, Absolutely, Because you talk a lot about perspective and how you're and you said in the very beginning how you view what you do impacts how you. And you said in the very beginning how you view what you do impacts how you do what you do.
Inky Johnson:I mean, come on, bro, did you come up with that shit?
Tyler Deveraux:I mean, I don't know where you, I don't know where you come up with these things, but like I, hear how you say things I'm like ooh, but bro, it's all the time level that just hits right, crazy man. But your perspective and I just want to talk about this because I believe that I mean there's so much. I can't wait to re-listen to this man. I'll tell you that. Thank you, man, I can't. I can't wait to re-listen.
Inky Johnson:I just want, like the whole time I'm a big note taker.
Tyler Deveraux:The whole time I'm like I I want to.
Inky Johnson:I want you to talk about um you're you go to the mayo clinic absolutely right, and you know I'm talking about with this, yeah, yeah, you might share on that experience. And how about what I saw?
Inky Johnson:yeah, absolutely how that changed your perspective yeah and uh how that's driven you and how that changes everything that you do every day, absolutely so, man, I'll never forget, you know, because one of the assumptions that people often make Tyler, when they see me and see where I am now or they hear me tell the story, sometimes people think like, oh man, ink got injured, he bounced right back, got in the groove of things and he was just rolling. And it's not like that man, I struggled too Like I battled is rolling. And it's not like that man, I struggled too, like I battled too. Man, I was fighting to find perspective and peace as well. And you know, I had to do all these visits, man, to the Mayo Clinic. I had to do all these visits back and forth to doctor's offices and like they would stick these needles in my back, would die, and so it's two things that happened. So are you talking about the situation with what I saw with the little girl? Yeah, yeah, and so one of the visits, man, I went up and this is one of my first visits and I'm near and I got my arm. And you know, people, people have compassion and empathy and if you're not careful, man, people have you wallowing in your sorrow. Yeah, amen, you know what I'm saying and it can be legit, yep, like it can be real, like you can have a real deal thing that happens to you, like bad things do happen to good people. Yes, right, and people will validate that. And people have been hitting me up. Man like this is crazy. Guys on my team hitting me up, bro, this, that and the third.
Inky Johnson:And I'm sitting there and I'm kind of like man, I got an arm, like what is this? I'm sitting here and I'm waiting to go back to see my doctor and I'll never forget I'm just in it, right, I'm in what happened to me. I'm just thinking about it and I look up and I'll never forget. Sitting like, not too far from me, it was like a little girl man. It was like I don't know if it was her two parents sitting next to her and I don't know her condition, but both of them were sitting on the side of her and it was like they were working to hold up like skin on her face. It was like a little girl man, like and I remember looking at that and I was like, bro, you just got, you just got an arm. Man, you just got a paralyzed arm right and in that moment that was at the beginning speaks to when you say hey, do you think God prepares us? I'm like, absolutely, I think in that moment that was a part of my preparation. Like God knew where I was mentally and I was battling Boom. Let me let you see this ain't a part of my preparation. Like God knew where I was mentally and I was battling Boom. Let me let you see this, inc. I see it immediately Perspective shift, where we just got it on and the next two years was probably the hardest two years of my life.
Inky Johnson:I went to doctor's visits for two years and would come in and they would have a different device every week, two years straight. Every time I would come into the office they would have a different device every week, two years straight. Every time I would come into the office they would have a different device. Hey, inc, we think this is the one. At the time I had no function, no movement, couldn't feel anything, and I would go in and I'm jacked right Because I want some level of movement, I want some feeling. I couldn't feel my arm I still can't feel it to a certain extent Like want it to be able to feel something Right, and so I would go in and try a different device and I'll be like man, are you seeing anything? And they would be on the machine. They would always look at me and be like, nah, ain't not seeing anything. That was almost two years. But me seeing a little girl happen like week one of being at the Mayo Clinic. And so the perspective, even if I wanted to walk out of the office one day and I would have my days like man I wish that worked. But even if I ever wanted to walk out of the office one day and be like man, bro, I'm feeling sorry. I thought about the little girl and her parents that were sitting there. And so even when I got close to the two-year journey and they called me and they had some device and it was like Inc. We think this is the one. It was one of my last visits and I could tell everybody around me on the journey was getting weary right Because the emotional rollercoaster of going in. It's like you coming into the office every single day thinking you got the deal of your life and every single time you come in the deal falls through. You're going to ride the emotional rollercoaster and after a while, no matter how ambitious you may be or the team may be, after a while somebody is going to come in and be like, oh man, again, right. And so the people around me I could tell they was like man, I don't know. And I went into the office one of my last visits. I tried the machine.
Inky Johnson:My PT gets up and he goes to walk off my guy and I jog over to him and I grab his shoulder. When I grabbed the shoulder I'll never forget he slipped from under my hand and he kept walking pretty slow and I caught up to him and I went to turn him around and when I turned him around never forget he was crying and he said I'm sorry, inc. He was like bro, we wanted to work. He was like, but we're not seeing anything. He said Inc. Man, you'll probably never be able to use that arm and that hand another day for the rest of your life.
Inky Johnson:Several things happened in that moment.
Inky Johnson:Tyler, you said it. Do I think things happen to prepare us before the journey happens? Or success? Highs, lows, whatever it may be? Absolutely, that was two years of preparation, right, with no result.
Inky Johnson:That's where I get my thought process, my psyche, my psychology when I say commitment is staying true to what you said you would do long after the mood that you've set it in has left I'm coming every single week to an environment and have to stay committed, with no results. That's where I get when I would say to people can you be committed to the process of what you're doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what you're doing? Right? If the result changes, does it change you? That's where I get. Perspective drives performance. How you view what you do affects how you do what you do right. My perspective about the situation and the condition I wasn't getting the outcome that I wanted, but my perspective about the situation made me show up. And so now, at the end of the two years, when they say to me, inky, you'll probably never be able to use that arm and that hand another day for the rest of your life, I was like physically. And when I said physically, everybody in the office was like what, how do you respond? That way I have been conditioned and prepared. Now I feel as if I can attack anything and I don't need to be promised a thing.
Inky Johnson:One of the greatest quotes in the world is when Kobe said like competitors, most of the time I outwork my competitors because they need to be guaranteed something. Most people need to be guaranteed something in order to operate at the optimal level. They need to be given something. Think about how dangerous an individual becomes. When an individual can show up and literally display greatness and operate at the optimal level, and it's not predicated upon the outcome of what they may get, that individual is unstoppable. Right, you can't stop them unstoppable, and so, man? Yeah, man, like, I'm southern baptist, so I'll get fired up. You want me? I'm about to jump off the couch here, bro. Absolutely, man, that's it.
Tyler Deveraux:Imagine how powerful you can become when you remove, you, detach yourself from the product and focus on the process. So many people, and this is why I know that people need the message that you have man a peak, and I'm so excited for our network, bro. We have the most amazing, beautiful people.
Inky Johnson:So excited for you to meet them. They're amazing people. I can't wait to see man.
Tyler Deveraux:They is focused to what you just said right there and understand that the power comes by detaching yourself from the product and focusing on the process game over in the best way, bro, absolutely. Thank you, man, for being who you are.
Tyler Deveraux:Man, no, thank you man, I want you to listen what I'm saying like thank you for the challenges that you've overcome. Thank you for sharing those challenges. Thank you for the person that you are, man. It helps. It helps, um, at every level of my life, bro. It's helped me in different areas business, you know, dad, husband, like you, just I just appreciate you as a person and thank you for being the person that you need to be to help all those around you be the person that they're striving to be, ma'am, I appreciate you for that.
Inky Johnson:It means a lot, man. I appreciate you, man. Thank you, man pleasure such lot, man, I appreciate you man.
Tyler Deveraux:Thank you, man, pleasure, such a pleasure. We usually end with a Hawaiian value. Nico's on point over here, make sure. I don't forget the Hawaiian value okay, Love it which is ho'omau. And ho'omau is the value of persevering. It's like enduring to the end, you know, and whatever that end is, it's just enduring. It's continually going, continually striving, and dude, you are the epitome of Ho'omau. I love that man.
Inky Johnson:You're the epitome of that. I love that.
Tyler Deveraux:To power through anything and to have that determination and to have that drive. And it's because, bro, your purpose transcends self. It's because you took that accountability to change the narrative, not just for you but for everyone that is within your circle, and I just appreciate you widening out your circle so the couple of us can squeeze in from time to time. My man, so Ink. Thank you so much, bro, so grateful and excited to have you at Peak Appreciate you.
Inky Johnson:Thank you, man.
Tyler Deveraux:Hey all y'all out there, share this. Follow this man.
Inky Johnson:Hey, where can they find you first? Ink yeah on all social media sites Inky Johnson Instagram. Inky yeah on all social media uh sites inky johnson instagram. Inky johnson motivate on my website, inkyjohnsoncom. And uh yeah, man, we rocking and rolling. We stay consistent with content every single week. Man just trying to add value, bro, yeah, oh, you do that, man and all I mean y'all listen to this.
Tyler Deveraux:You you probably already following maybe there's five of you out there you know, but maybe there's somebody maybe listen to. But maybe there's somebody, maybe listen to me. Maybe there's somebody that doesn't know this man yet, absolutely Maybe there's somebody that doesn't know this man yet, and how can their life be changed by you just sharing and introducing this dude to them? Hey, don't be stingy man. Share.
Inky Johnson:Let them know, man.
Tyler Deveraux:This guy needs to reach the masses at every single level. So share rate review can't wait to see y'all at peak and remember man live always with aloha peace.