Hope Dealer with MAJOR.

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this episode of Keith It Paza is sweetie. I'm Christophine and Hazlet and if you cannot tell, I'm not at home. I'm in Los Angeles catching up with some of my favorite people right here in La We are at thirteen Loon in Los Angeles. It is a black founded store by Nikayo Grayco. And ninety percent of the products sold here are bipop founded. Thank you so much thirteen Loon. Today I have with me none other than Major, also known as a Whole Dealer. My brother. I'm so excited to have you on the couch today.

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Speaker 2: I'm super honored to finally be on the cap.

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Speaker 1: We've been working this out because the way I shoot, it's very unorthodox. A lot of people just shoot whenever I shoot line in blocks. So I'm glad were.

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Speaker 2: It's called organization. Yes, yeah, yeah, you got you got intention to it all and I'm honored. First things first, I want you to know that I'm extremely proud of you. You're impacting in more ways than one. And as I shared right before we started shooting, I was saying that it's a an effortless relatability that you represent. You give people permission to just show up, show up fully, dream big, and keep it positive. Period. It is.

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Speaker 1: So congrats, Thank you so much for those of you who may have been under a rock. Major is also known as the Hope Healer, but he is.

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Speaker 2: Also a platinum hope dealer. I said healer, but I'll go with hope healer. A few folks have said that before, because I do believe a whope mindset does heal. But we'll get into that. Keep going, keep.

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Speaker 1: Going, Come on, he is a hope dealer. He's a platinum American soul singer and an actor. So just in case you don't know that two is Major. You and I first met, I feel it was through Instagram, Yeah yeah, and then we ran into each other at the NAACPO Wars dinner and.

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Speaker 2: I was like wait. I was like, I get to actually meet you.

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Speaker 1: And You've always been such a beautiful light and spirit and just amazing a lot of people know you from your songs and your music and the joy that you bring into our homes, but meeting you, I was like, I see it translates through.

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Speaker 2: You realize it's real. Yeah, Because I want to make sure that people know that this ain't some front, like I really choose joy. I hope. It's literally my fuel. And it doesn't mean everything's perfect, but it is. It is very much who I've who I am, and who I've always been. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: So for the people who don't know, just tell us a little bit about yourself.

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Speaker 2: So I'm originally from Houston, Texas. Yeah, h time. I went to the former arts schools all my life. I'm one of thirteen siblings.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Grew up in a household a family of it was ten of us, a blended family, ten siblings. And yeah, I was very very close to family, have always been. The church is where it all started for me. The churches where it ends for me. You know, it's the kingdom assignment. That is something that I've I've embraced early on. I went on to UH do some some work in music and did an intensive at Julliard before going to UH. The Berkeley College of Music in Boston, where I graduated. Was very active at Berkeley student the president because I believe our voices should be heard. You know. That was my slowe let your voice be heard. No. But I've then fast forwarded moved to Los Angeles, UH to pursue this dream of singing and acting and voiceover work. Uh. It's been a disrespectful yet rewarding adventure, a lot of lessons along the way. I'm married now, three and a half years married. I call her doctor wife, you know. And uh, yeah, so we're here. I was a worship leader for a very long time with one church, you know, it for Torrey Roberts and Sarah Jax Roberts. And I'm still, you know, just a church boy living out a soul singer. You know. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the disrespect and rewards along your journey, because a lot of people see you feel like, oh man, he's made it. Like I'm trying to get there, you know. But as artists, we feel like we have so far to go.

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Speaker 3: Let's speak to that.

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Speaker 2: Well, you said it. As artists, we feel like we have so far to go. And I think really the word is as humans, because I think once we step into some of these seats of opportunity, people forget that we're human first. Oh yeah, And so I try to live in a way to bring people back to I'm human.

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Speaker 3: I'm human.

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Speaker 2: I'm human first, And rejection probably was my greatest disrespector but my greatest teacher. I have a new relationship with a rejection. But rejection is very much a part of this journey that I've lived pursuing entertainment as a career because people don't know that we get way more knows than we get, yes, a whole lot more. We just present well in the midst of the turbulence and all of that good stuff. And I think of it very similarly to you know, uh, a plane ride. You know, when we're in flight, when there's turbulence, if we see the pilot or the steward is you know, or they say flight attendant, don't say steward is. No more flight attendant tripping during turbulence. We're gonna act up, We're gonna we're gonna be like so they know how to keep their composure in the midst of the turbulence, because turbulence isn't new, It's a part of the journeys. And so rejection and it's great side of disrespect has definitely challenged me to to question if what I'm longing for, I'm chasing after seeking, is worth my chase or my seeking. And it doesn't always feel good, especially when rejection is not necessarily an indicator of you're not qualified. So that's the teacher in it, because I realized that it's not always about not being qualified. That doesn't mean that that is the reason why a thing isn't a thing for you. Yet it's not your time or this one, this ain't what, this ain't a part of the plan, or you know, just a redirection. You know, we say rejection is God's you know, protection and a redirection. And now for me, my reclaiming and my renaming of rejection, the word no is now turned into n oh and oh, and that that acronym is next one, because Crystal, if it ain't this one, we don't get the next and if it ain't that one, we're gonna get the next one. My only thing is to show up well every time so that I don't have a regret.

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Speaker 1: Exactly have you always had that you no?

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Speaker 2: I told you journey. I imagine imagine being the talented big fish in your ponds or rivers or oceans wherever you come from, and then being dumped in La where it's a whole bunch of talented big fish, you know, and and you have to figure out where your place is amongst all of these talented folks, and so you start to question, am I as talented? As a thought? You're still talented, but there's a whole lot of others, and so it's just about where you belong and where God needs you ultimately in the season that you're in. And so it took some time and some growing and conversations. Like my uncle play him and his wife Lodonna dal hugely had a conversation with me about rejection and he was like, man, I've been rejected way more than I've been accepted, he says, But when I was accepted, I leaned into that thing with everything I had. And so when people see that that's what they were doing.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, I know for artists, I don't know how it is for musicians, but I know as an actor, we longed for the awards and the award season. We feel like that is a stamp of our worthiness.

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Speaker 2: It's do you feel like that?

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Speaker 1: So how do you deal with I know a lot of times an award season comes around, it's just like dang, like there they go. You know what I'm saying and I'm not there. You know, how does that feel?

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Speaker 2: And how do you deal with that. It's the count at all joy of it all. I'm speaking from a place of learned behavior now because it wasn't always like that for me. But it does frustrate when what we do is public. We want to be acknowledged by the public. You know, at the end of the day, people get super churchy and they're like, you know, it's for God, you know God, you know, you know, Heaven is the reward. Yes, while I'm on earth, I would love to enjoy some benefits. Who doesn't want to smell the flowers? Look at that bouquet right there, you know what I mean? Like, who doesn't want to enjoy treasures? It's I just have to make sure that the reward, the award, the accolade, is not my idol, because that lies the problem. And that's what I think many of us get caught up in case the thing, as if that's the thing. But that's just an indicator that you're doing what you're doing and you're doing it well. And along the way, for me, I counted our joy by just counting up the moment, like you literally are pulling in some influential people. So if you don't realize that that's your perpetual reward and accolade for the impact that you're making. Because people don't just say yes to things they don't believe in. They believe you. That's why people are showing up, and that's why you have to have waiting lists for certain people, you know what I mean. So whether it be the trophy or the success of your podcast, we win it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love that some people don't know that your real name is Major. My mama name me that that's right exactly. And when your mom was pregnant with you, her prayer was that you made a major impact in the world. And I guess it's safe to say that her prayer was answered.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it has been. It's been an interesting journey into the fullness of understanding what impact is because oftentimes we define impact with certain accolades. Yes we do, which is what we just talked about. But when you get a message in your DMS of a person hearing this is why I love you, and you know that's my love letter to God, you know, And I'm not realizing that it's impacting people in a way that they decide not to commit suicide because they realize that they're worthy of the love that they see. And so I'm like, oh, so this is the impact. It's not just about I'm you know, getting I'm selling the most, you know, I'm on this TV show or I'm on this radio station. It's about how you are speaking to the cry of the earth. And that's what I'm most moved by. And and every day I have to reset my perspective and intention to make sure that that's first. The other stuff can come. But when you touch your heart, when you respond to a hurt, to a need to, to somebody's yearning to be reminded that they're worthy. Yeah, so my mama knew. My mama prays, and I love her for it.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to mom. I love that. So speaking of your childhood, what was it like growing up in Houston? You said you were in the church with Like how was that and then how did you end up going to Juilliard And what was that journey like from a child?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I've always been extra So my Mama named me right for that major has always been in I've always been bold and courageous, not always confident. And we can talk about that later, because that's that's the thing that I think a lot of people confuse with extroverted people. They just think they're they're confident, But it's not always that, ye, because I've wrestled with the imposter syndrome big time. But growing up, I've always just had audacity and I would just step into spaces fully. And I think that that is what has attracted the support of my village because coming from a big family, you know, of course, finances were challenged because we didn't you guys, spread out all of the resources with all of us. And so I think my community and my village did a great work in supporting the dream. My mom's whole philosophy was if you want to do something, do it well. Don't waste time doing it if you're not going to do it well. And so I always just showed up that way, and I think to a degree it kind of made the extra perfectionist in me kind of come up. But I got tame that beast because perfection will never be accomplished. Excellence will. So that's what I've realized, That's what she meant. Yeah, showing up well is a spirit of excellence, not perfection. But yeah, I went to performing our schools, the High School for the Performing Visual Arts was a very popular performing arts school. Robert Glasper, Brian Michael Cox, Uh, LaToya Luckett and the real Humble you know lady by the name, it's you know, a few people may know Beyon. Uh. Yeah, a lot of great talented folks came from hspv A. And when I was at pv A, I did an intensive with the Houston Grand Optor, a high school voice studio, and also did and intensive with Juilliard called the Juilliard Experience where they select you know, certain students throughout the country and and then you know, transitioned to Berkeley. And Berkeley was an experience that opened me up to the more. Uh. It was just so much. It was just so much. But I'm I'm grateful for my upbringing. Church has literally guided and steered my way. Uh. I was choir boy, and we used to call me choir boy. I was the one singing in a choir and and obviously the one I was supposed to have the solo because all right, blend major, blend a little bit more. Allright, just just give him the song, just let him, let him say the shot. But yeah, it's it's been an Uh, it's been a really cool journey. But I always did. I did as much as I showed up well and as much as it brought me opportunities. I was always just an odd kid too, and I didn't always like it because I was like, why can't I just be a little bit more normal, you know?

00:17:54
Speaker 1: And some people don't realize there's.

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Speaker 2: A little at first. For for the longest, I did, and I was just like, yeah, I catch up everybody, like, you know, this is what we alsantsed to do. And then I was like, wait a minute, no one else is doing it like this, and so just realizing that different what was a stamp on me? Yeah? I love it.

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Speaker 1: So you come from a really big family thirteen siblings. Are you the only one that has made it to this level of fame and like success?

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Speaker 2: I would say I'm the only clearly I'm the only one of my my siblings that has made to this level of popularity and and uh celebrity. But my siblings are impressive, like I have, like like they're they're moving. My brother Scotty is down in Dallas. He's a real estate developer and broker. Like he's developing South Dallas and doing.

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Speaker 1: He's it's a lot of things going down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, dallasis yes, for sure. My other brother is getting his doctorate in psychology, family, uh, child psychology. You know, I have another brother that has a program for special needs, a sister that's a teacher, and like I a brother that owns a trucking company. They're doing it.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of times when we are the one that made it, we deal what is called survivors remorse. We feel like we got to bring everybody with us. But it seems like you haven't really had to deal with that, or have you, Because I've.

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Speaker 2: Had an interesting guilt of the attention that is on me, where I'm like, I'm not trying to to put the spotlight just on me. You know, I think people misinterpret the intention of an extrovert, like our nature is we show up like we we just show up. It's not hey, only look at me. And I actually have a heart to share the space. And I think, and I'm an impath, so i feel people's burden and i feel their plight, so I'm always thinking my first duty is to respond and figure out how I can resolve people's issue. And I'm sorry. I'm in a season now where I'm exhausted of like doing that for so many people. And my mom tries to tell me, you're not responsible for everybody, but feels like I am. And they call me and I when I've always kind of moved like a patriarch in my space is not No. Not to my older brother, you know, which I care deeply for. But I've just been that one, you know that is stepped in that seat. But you know, I have to ride that fine line to realize I'm not savior. Yes, major, you're not savior. There's one. Yeah, you may be vessel, but you ain't. Yeah, and so yeah, hear that you're not savior. Vessel but not savior. That's good. It can pass through you. The answer can pass through you an instrument, but you're not savior. Relieve yourself or that. I'm saying that just in case I encourage them. And when I watch you back, relieve yourself thinking you have to be everyone's answer because that's not the case.

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Speaker 3: That's so good. Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: I need I know I was. It's crazy because I did that, and then when I looked at you, I'm like, oh, you needed that. Yeah, yeah, remember the standard in which we love when it says love your neighbor as you love yourself, you set the bar on how you love yourself. The as you love yourself is the operative. It's not just give all the love away and whatever is left, I'm gonna use it for me, remember you, so that you can properly measure and give to whomever else.

00:22:33
Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: God will never, I have learned. God never wants us to exist in a space where there's no give back. There's no return on the investment the soul reap.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's real.

00:22:50
Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: That is it.

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Speaker 1: You talked about people see that you're so extroverted and feel like you're confident. Let's speak to them because I know a lot of people I wouldn't think that you're not confident, and I know there's moments where I don't feel as confident as people would think I should feel. Let's talk about that.

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Speaker 2: I am courageous, I am bold, and I am ambitious and I am audacious. Audacious. For those that are like, why did he say that word, it means I have the audacity. I choose to just go for it because at the end of the day, I have seen lack and if I don't want lack, I got a leap for more. If you don't want lack, you have to leap for the more. So my audacity is if I want more than what I don't have, more than what I want, more of what I want, I've got to take the leap. And so a lot of time I'm moving. That that's faith. Really, I move in faith and it has always rewarded me. So it pushes me to do it more often because I know that the reward is often better than not having taken this at all. So but I will say sometimes I show up in spaces nervous as heck, questioning do I belong here? Did I manipulate my way into this space? And it's I know there's nothing but the devil's work, because the devil only gets to the mind. Yes, that which you speak is his invitation to what you're thinking. Mm hmm Yo. There's so many downloads happening right now. But I will say that I wrestle with it, and I'm in a am in an interesting season right now where I don't have a number one song at radio, have a song that's doing that. Why I love you that it's still paying me. Well, you know what I'm saying. Yes, folks are still getting married. The folks are still getting married, so mate, you're still able to get all the chicken nuggets he wants. But I don't have a number one at radio right now. I have music on the radio, but I don't have uh, you know, a crazy engagement right now on on Instagram which throws me off. Whoever invented Instagram and this algorithm? Stop it, Alga, stop Alga, chill out, because you're playing with my mind and my emotions. Let me start thinking I'm doing well one minute and then the next that that it's crazy and you start doubting everything. But that's why you got to remind yourself human bring yourself back to you. This ain't real, It's ain't real. But yeah, I wrestle with the confidence in this season because I'm I. I think I'm called I believe, and I think as we continue to evolve, we get more clarity on our why. But I think I'm called to speak to the intersection of faith and culture because I know how to break down complex things simply. I know how to say it simply, and I've always had that gift. But it's frustrating when it's not either or because most of the time as an artist or either a gospel singer or you're not a gospel singer. And I'm right in the middle because my faith is what drives me, but my audience a lot of times is mainstream, and so I'm doing something that mainstream is not asking for but in need of, and gospel is like, well, do more of just do it over here, because that's what we do. But God didn't call us to be club church. He called us to go out into the world to spread the church, to expand the church.

00:27:10
Speaker 1: And so.

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Speaker 2: It feels very lonely in this space, and so my confidence isn't that strong every day, but moments like this and people reaching out to me and encouraging me and saying, yo, what you said, or I was listening to the song the other day, or I watched an interview or I saw you on this and I'm like, okay, okay, I belong.

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Speaker 1: Here, Yeah, I belong here. Wow. And that's important to feel that as an artist because a lot of what we do is off the reaction of other people. So when you're not getting that love or the reaction or the feedback that you need, it's like what am I doing wrong?

00:27:53
Speaker 2: Or do I need to reevaluate?

00:27:54
Speaker 1: Do I need to do something different to move the needles? So I totally understand where you are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I also think that we have to position ourselves in environments that speak life, because as fame becomes our reality, you're forced to be in environments that they don't. That's not their duty. Their duty is not speaking life. Their duty is just to speak on what they see.

00:28:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: Sometimes you just you just have to. It's just that reset, that artistic, that creative reset. And this isn't just for the creatives. It's for the people that are in business, that are venturing as entrepreneurs, bring yourself back center and make sure you have a village of support and that you're just not drawing. But you're also given. Because if you're the only one giving and receiving nothing in return, that ain't the way. If you're the only one receiving and giving nothing in return, that ain't the way. But if we're both pouring, if we're both giving that right, there is the way, and that is love and that is God and that is life. Yes, I love it.

00:29:22
Speaker 1: I love that you are known as the hope.

00:29:25
Speaker 2: He dealer.

00:29:26
Speaker 1: I want to call you the whole heal I don't know why he's coming out the whole healers.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go with the flow of what this profitences seen.

00:29:34
Speaker 1: But Billy Johnson is the one that gave you the name the hope Dealer. Can you just give us the story behind that?

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Speaker 2: So, Billy Johnson is a journalist, a music journalist. He used to work with Yahoo Music when Yahoo Music was a big thing, and he did an interview and he brought attention to this term that had been floating around about me. He's a hope dealer. He's a hope dealer. And my team was like, yeah, we the hope dealer. You're the hope dealer. And because and he said in this article that major is feeling the void of hope and inspiration that is missing in mainstream music. And I was like, oh yeah, I like that. That's an assignment I rock with that. Hope has always been my theme. I define hope is this Hope is not the denial of reality. It's the commitment to believe greater is on the other side of it. I break it down even more that hope is not the pretending that circumstance and hardship and difficulty ain't real. Yeah, because it is because life is gonna life. Yes, hope or no hope, But hope is a commitment to anchor yourself to the promise and the promise keeper. And if he did it before, he can do it again. Yes, yes, And that the fact of the matter is every storm runs out of rain, every single one. So all I have to do is hold to this hope that is attached to this phenomenon called faith, that it's shown and proving to always work as long as you hold to it and you put in the work, because you can't talk faith unless you talk hope, because faith is a substance of things hope for. But hope has changed my life is it has been the fuel to what I do. It has given me perspective to shift in moments, a pivot in moments to say and is next one? Yeah? You know. I even had it tatted on my arm. I have a foundation called major Hope, Major Hope. I put this. I tatted hope on my arm right after while I Love you blew up the first time, and then I'm like, what do I have next? I felt this pressure of needing to outdo this, you know the success of that, and thinking that people were putting pressure on me, assuming pressure that wasn't even real. And I realized I had to Major. You gotta start living the hope you're giving. And so I tatted on my arm as a reminder. Never thought i'd ever get a tattoo, but I tatted on my arm as a reminder that the hope you live is a hope you give. The hope you give is a hope you must live.

00:33:00
Speaker 3: Wow.

00:33:01
Speaker 2: And it has been the current that has kept me. And I'm telling you it delivers well. Lock into hope. You get your joy there, you get your peace there, you get your abundance there. Yeah, Lock into hope.

00:33:21
Speaker 1: That's amazing. You speak about your foundation, tells how we can support it.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: What it's about, The Major Hope Foundation Major all caps with a period. That's that's the clever part. By my real name is Major. I capitalize every letter and put a period after that because I mean that name. Major dot Hope All Caps Foundation is a social action initiative committed to the amplification of hope and communities and people near and far. My intention is just to help redefine our understanding of hope to not just see it as some fluffy cliche that's just said when circumstance circumstance, but really a real tangible answer and remedy to the tough times of life. Major Hope Foundation Major Hope Foundation dot org. You can go on there. We have three programs. The Major Hope Experience, which is like a concert experience. We do it acoustic or with the full band, where it's music meets motivation, where motivation and music Collie think MTV on Plug meets of the Soul Sunday, it's special. That's one program. The other program is Random Drops of Hope likened to random Acts of Kindness, where it's pop up charitable activations where we just respond to needs and it's super dope. And the last one, which I really love, is Confidence Coaching. Do this intensive that helps young people and also adults on building esteem and value systems, because I think we live different when we feel that we're worth something. Absolutely, we we really live different. We move different when you feel that there's value, yeah, in your living. And and so we work on effective communications, ways to communicate more effectively, understanding that you might talk a certain way, but there's other environments that require a different way of communicating, and it's not denying who you are. The colde switch is necessary for everybody. Oftentimes it's a very necessary thing. But making sure that there's authenticity and whatever switches absolutely.

00:35:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love it amazing, So make we make sure we support that for sure.

00:35:54
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:35:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I want to talk music, Okay, let's I want to know what you have coming up? People know because I know we've been writing on some music.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: So what do you have next? Well, I have a new EP called The Hope of My Soul. We just released The Hope of My Soul Deluxe that's available everywhere. I'm a soul singer you are, and I sing from the heart of my experiences a church boy. The sound and the sonics of this particular project is soul meets Americana. It takes her to church.

00:36:29
Speaker 1: Wow.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: So it's real, it's real good. You can feel my my Southern roots coming out. Think Bill Withers meets Ray Charles and Ran and to Month and and his sons. It's anthemic, it's good. It's message music.

00:36:49
Speaker 1: Is that where you were when you walk in?

00:36:50
Speaker 2: Yeah? For the Wind was one of the songs the lyric. There's a process to it all, so many lessons great and small. Should you go under struck by the thunder? Embrace the rain? There's a testing in the fall. How will you rise up to it all? Do you surrender, return to cinder, or do you face the pain?

00:37:26
Speaker 4: It's all working together for the wind. Yea, it's all working together.

00:37:37
Speaker 2: For the wind. So all you gotta do is let it flow, Let it flow, let it flow. Shit, God, encourage myself because life is gone. Life. But the fact of the matter is, it ain't over till it's good. It ain't over until it Yeah. God doesn't have us just out here, just out here. Yes, there's intention and there's a reason. Yeah, and we will meet that reason sure as we show up and show up. Well, it gets tough. I got a song on there called joy in the Battle, And there's a verse that I that says the second verse says, you shouldn't let yourself get tangled up and worry, cause that kind of live and takes its told, m you better take that pencil back, rewrite your story and write the best one ever told. Yeah, all over me. You won't my piece, but you won't get it but it says joy in the battle, joy in my victory. I keep my eyes to the heaven, so my joy never slips from me. M This is real life. We don't need the permission of our storm, our circumstance, or hardship to choose joy. You choose it anyway, and your circumstances no other choice but to fall in line. So good were keeping it positively, We keep it sweet. Yeah, yeah, the hope of my soul.

00:39:05
Speaker 1: My goodness. Okay, we definitely got it.

00:39:07
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, my goodness. I really think it's gonna I really think it's gonna be soundtrack to the get back, to get back to winning, to the reset. Be it in the morning, but in the evening. Shout out to everybody that just yes decides to show up.

00:39:24
Speaker 1: Well, I love it.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: I love it. Major, Thank you so much, thank you for having me this.

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Speaker 1: No, I appreciate you. Before we close out, if you like to hang out just for a bit, we do what it's called positive outcome. Okay, that's our listeners right in and we give them advice. Yeah yeah, all right, So this one says high Crystal. I just watched your episode with Eva Marcel. You talked about multiple things, but what stuck out is that when you asked why she wanted to get back into the word, she said, it was you your light. When she said that and followed up by saying, because I've been feeling empty, I felt that I immediately shed some tears. These past six months of my life have been indescribably painful. I have always been extremely close to my grandma. She raised me, and I've always taken care of her. She became sick in November twenty twenty three, and I was in and out of the hospital until January twenty twenty four. Both my mom and I are only children. My mom and I were working around the clock, were working like clockwork to make sure that my grandmother was safe and healthy. My grandma was getting better, and then one day my mom called and said she was gone. I have never dealt with this type of loss, and I have been devastated ever since. So many first without my grandmother had flown by. When Eva said that she was feeling empty, it really struck a chord. I have been feeling empty and down. I feel like I'm losing my light that God gave me. I want my light back, I want my energy back. I want to feel whole again. What do I do now that my purpose is gone? And how do I grow my dimn delight?

00:41:00
Speaker 2: So what we just did naturally after reading it, we took a deep breath in and we let it out. So to my sister that wrote that, I would encourage you to catch your breath first. So we're gonna do that.

00:41:19
Speaker 3: Take a deep breath in, let it out, Take a deep breath in, let it out.

00:41:35
Speaker 2: That's surrender. Life does not need our permission to life. It won't ask for permission to life. Grief, which often comes not just at the loss of loved ones, but it comes as a result of the unfamiliar of the familiar changing. Grief does not just come at the loss of loved ones. It comes when the familiar changes. And you said something that really hit me. You said you no longer have purpose MM. Your purpose will never only be in one individual or assigned to one individual. I guarantee you that there is purpose that was connected MM to the one you loved. And if you catch your breath, get back to your maker. Yes, you will discover and uncover that there are lessons that were learned while your grandmama lived That you learned along the way, and now is the time for you to walk in the fullness of what that was. That is where purpose is going to be. And remember this purpose reciprocates. It helps others, but it also helps you. So please don't ever think that you're missing in the equation of assignment and intention and what God has destined for you. There is so much more life to live, and we on a legacy when we choose to continue to live when the familiar has changed. Grief is simply love finding a new rhythm. Were going to be all right, Sis, I've been there. Welcome to life.

00:44:02
Speaker 3: That's so good.

00:44:02
Speaker 1: Major, thank you, Thank you that helped me, and I know I know that's going to help her.

00:44:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, so good.

00:44:12
Speaker 1: So what we like to ask our guests is what I'm going through and what I'm growing through? Is there anything in this particular season in your life that you are going through and growing through?

00:44:25
Speaker 2: In this season, I am going through the unknown. I don't know what is fully next. I'm convinced that it is good, but I'm just trusting God. I'm trusting God in deeper ways than ever before. It feels crazy because I'm often the one that helped so many people get through stuff. Yeah, and it's I'm just in this season where I'm just trying to figure out how am I to be used next. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful, but I'm also hopeful that there is more. I'm grateful for what has already happened. I don't want that to be missed, but I'm hoping for so much more and the peace as I journey there.

00:45:41
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:45:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy, Yeah.

00:45:52
Speaker 3: Cause I know that.

00:45:55
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. It's like so much good is happening. But I'm also like God with it. You do it. It's like my feet aren't on the ground and I but that's faith. Yeah, when your feet don't touch the ground to still believe, that's faith. Yeah. Man, Okay, I'm crying. They got me crying. Ah man, I love Jesus Christ so much. Yes, it's my best friend.

00:46:24
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yes, I love that.

00:46:28
Speaker 2: Cool.

00:46:31
Speaker 1: Alright, to close out, We're gonna and I leave. I know this is you having a moment right now. Yeah, we keep we close off. But keep it blank, sweetie. If you could leave a word for the people, how would you tell him to keep it blank?

00:46:43
Speaker 2: Sweety? What would your feeling be for that I'm just gonna go with what's on my hat. There, you go, keep it joy, Yes, sweetie, I love that choose anyway.

00:47:01
Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm gonna say keep it hopeful, sweetie.

00:47:03
Speaker 2: A appreciate it.

00:47:09
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my gosh, thank you so much.

00:47:12
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

00:47:13
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for tuning in to this episode of Keep It Positive.

00:47:16
Speaker 3: Sweetie.

00:47:17
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00:47:29
Speaker 2: Can follow you now that's Major dot com or now that's Major on everything. And if you're googling me, Major is all capital letters with a period, because, like I said, I make that period.

00:47:44
Speaker 3: All right.

00:47:45
Speaker 1: Guys, thank you so much for tuning in in the meantime in between time you know what to do. Keep it positive, sweetie.

00:48:02
Speaker 2: Father, we love you with our whole heart. We thank you for having us on your mind. It is so clear that as breath moves in and through us, that there is more. So, Lord God, we say, yes, we surrender, We make ourselves available for your great flow and intention. Yes, God, Thank you for the heart of Crystal and her incredible tea. Yes, Jesus, they clearly seek to move and purpose and purpose alone. Yes, Father God, I pray that you continue to show favor and grace on it. I pray that this session be refreshing, be something new, take us to a new dimension, even higher or deeper, wider. Whatever you have intended for today, may it fully be Thank you. Thank you, Thank you for today and now and for whatever tomorrow bring from this Lord God, thank you for every heart that's connected. If there's any individual circumstances that the people are dealing with that they haven't shared God, in this moment, as we take a deep breath in and we let it out, may they be assured that it too as well. In Jesus' name, we gray, Amen. Amen,