The Mendable Hustler Podcast: Recent Episodes
Gee & Arturo
Two young men with two distinctive perspectives come together to share their thoughts and experience on a diverse set of topics. Gee and Arturo provide and suggest a number options for young people to strive and be the best version of themselves. To further educate and learn new perspectives, Gee and Arturo bring in new set of relatable guests that share their challenges and growth.
in this episode Gee shared his mentality and his lifestyle, what shaped him to be the man that he is today. his mentality of sleep less grind more is a counter against overwhelming distraction from daily activities as well towards weight training when laziness sets it. Besides the grind everyone can apply to this mentality with in something in their lives on grinding more on productive things. when you set goals in something you want to change about your life the grind mentality helps you get to work. Gee embraced this mentality to change his life and shared his routine what he has been doing for the last 7 years. he didn"t get trapped his inside head but keep his head high and kept pushing forward.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo premiere Season 3 with a special guest, Murphy Beya. Murphy is a professional basketball player with a profoundly relatable story that inspires and motivates. Beyond Basketball, Murphy seeks to broaden his skills and abilities with video game development, modelling, and audio design. The ultimate goal is to reach the NBA, a plan he once drew in High School, where he had won the NBA Championship with the Atlanta Hawks.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo celebrate reaching the 2nd milestone for the podcast of 30 episodes. Similarly, they use this opportunity as an example for those with high aspirations and goals that require time and hard work. Nothing is rewarded without consistent time and effort, while gradual steps are rewarded and celebrated. To Conclude, Gee and Arturo shared how they improved from episode 15 to 30, made commitments to improve moving forward, and, most importantly, set the next milestone at 50 podcast episodes.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo continue a conversation on needs and wants and use them to navigate social media. As previously mentioned, social media is a valuable tool that provides many benefits to everyone, but like with anything, when it's overused, it becomes detrimental to the users. Gee and Arturo share tips and tricks to best moderate such a tool.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo extend a conversation on a topic that was previously mentioned and elaborated further upon. Additionally, the issue of managing expectations is also discussed, where Gee and Arturo provide a personal experience to provide clear examples of past failures and responses to those failures.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo resumed a conversation intended for the last episode but not talked about. The topic was success. Like the previous episode, Arturo researched the topic of success and continually asked Gee to elaborate on the list of points he mentioned. Gee uses various examples from personal experience to connect the points closer.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo continue a discussion from the previous episode regarding happiness. Arturo researched and brought up some interesting facts and details about happiness that propels the conversation. Gee uses various examples from his personal experience and things that he learned to elaborate on the points given.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation about the reasons behind the extended break from the podcast. This episode takes on a different format where Arturo interviews Gee about his two tragic accidents and the lessons that he took away from them. To conclude, Gee and Arturo officially announce the podcast's return with new fresh changes coming soon.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with a construction company entrepreneur, Michael Rifaat. Born in Libya in 1994, Michael faced one of his first many challenges where he lost his mother at the age of nine, which resulted in being moved in with his Aunt. Although he found love and comfort, he was consistently moved to various family member's home, which forced him to adapt the mentality of never getting too comfortable. Blessed with an opportunity to come to Canada, he attempted to seize every opportunity to obtain freedom, but after a number of trials and tribulation, he discovered that true freedom can only be obtained through financial freedom. Today, Michael is an owner of a construction company and in a happy long-term relationship. In this episode share his journey and all the details that made him who he is today.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with a professional basketball player name, Kevin NDahiro. Born in Rwanda in 1995, Kevin and his family were thankfully unaffected with the political crisis that took place. Blessed with an opportunity to come to Canada, Kevin took every advantage by working on himself and finding his passion for Basketball. Through Basketball, Kevin continuously improved and developed the skills that would immediately be recognized by a number of Pac-12 schools before ultimately signing with Stetson. Today, Kevin is patiently waiting for a reasonable offer to play overseas, and while he waits he decided to stop by and share his journey and give advice to those with similar aspirations.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with a former international student, David Ng' Ambi. Born in Zambia to a family of engineers who invested in raising kids with strong discipline, respect, and honesty. David along with his parents made the investment of studying abroad to acquire the skills needed to further develop the family business but a year into his studies, David changed his mind. During this conversation, David shares his reasons and all other wonderful things that he discovered about himself while studying in Canada. Today, David is a married man with a successful job as an estimator for a roofing company and he shares his full experience as an international student and more.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with a former Olympic track athlete, Richard Adu-Bobie. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire from Ghanaian parents, he moved to Canada at age 2. Soccer quickly became his first passion as he naturally developed the skill to run fast with the ball. By high school, Richard decided to run without the ball and solely focus on track and field which quickly opened new opportunities for him. For example, he earned a scholarship, competed in multiple world championships, and became a two Olympian as part of the Canadian track team in 04-08. Today, Richard has smoothly transitioned into a new chapter in his life and he's ready to share his professional experience and give advice to those with similar aspirations
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with all three members from the Nyce Image Productions. A talented group of siblings who specialize in various of fields that help dreams become reality. Whether your needs are anything related with photography, videography, web development, and more, their skills are well suited to fulfil your needs. But before they started fulfilling dreams of others, they first had to escape death from their own country as kids, be relocated to multiple countries, and face bullying from students and teachers while adapting to a drastically different culture. Through this episode, they share all of these details and also offer great advice for those seeking to build a successful media production company.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with Joel Tita, the man without a middle name. Joel came from Congo at aged 5 with his family in the middle of winter, highlighting his early journey in Canada. Like many newcomers before him, there was a drastic culture shock and significant time was needed to acclimatize to the culture and weather. Although he later became accustomed to the culture and weather, a few things always remained the same. He describes in no particular order god, family, music and hard work as the core things that served to build his character and keep him on a positive path. One hardship that he highlighted and raised a question on was, how do you identify whether or not your friends pose genuine criticism of your goals. Today, Joel is a married man with several kids and owns a successful construction company and is willing to share his experience and provide advice for those striving for something similar.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with Ricardo Louis, a young upcoming film-maker from Ottawa. He moved from Haiti to Canada at age 14, just a year before the historic earthquake in Haiti. Just like many before him, it took him some time adapt to a drastically different country and all the surrounding cultures. Although he quickly adapted and embraced new traditions, he always stayed true to his roots as a proud Haitian man. Ricardo is a highly curious person who explores everything and quickly learns new skills from his experiences. One of those explorations involved film-making, where he found his passion to tell stories with his creative editing and voice narration. Today, Ricardo owns a clothing company, Faithful Apparel, and a YouTube channel (Ricardo Pierre Louis) where he visually details his journey and much more. To conclude, Ricardo shares helpful advice and tips for those looking to become content creators and entrepreneurs.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with Garry Gallimore, founder of Trench Life Apparel, former National Basketball player for Canada, and the older brother to Neville Gallimore. As accomplished and humble Garry is, nothing ever came easy nor was his pursuit of a basketball career. Garry came from Jamaica to Canada at young age and witnessed a drastically different culture, which took time to adapt to. Although he was shamed for his Jamaican accent, he never let anything affect him negatively, plus, thanks to his parents, they guided him towards a positive path along with the right principles. Through hard work and true dedication, Garry achieved his dreams of going pro, playing for the national team, becoming a husband and father to several kids. Today, he's set his sight on a new chapter of his life as an entrepreneur for his clothing business Trench Life Apparel and other ventures that he's ready to share helpful advice to those looking to make something of themselves.
In this first episode of season 2, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with EMG Lion, a multi-talented film-maker from Ottawa. Originally from Congo, EMG Lion came to Canada with high aspirations to be a soccer star that would elevate his name and his family to greater opportunities. Due to unfortunate luck, EMG lion suffered a sport career ending injury to his ankle that would force him to reevaluate his life and career pursuits. While searching for the next career to pursuit, EMG Lion explored with many things and acquire several skills in speaking multiple languages, hosting and promoting parties, and acting. Today, EMG Lion is a successful entrepreneur with his film production company and several others encompassing his acting talents, he's now ready to share his story and provide advice for those looking to make something of themselves.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo briefly summarized all the previous episodes, highlighting the lows and highs, and all the lessons that were learned. Additionally, they described all the goals that were set by episode 1 and how they accomplished these goals by reaching episode 15. To conclude, Gee and Arturo set new goals like reaching 30 episodes, making a number of updates to the video and audio version of the podcast, plus changes to the schedule, since the focus is on quality not quantity.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with AJ Larin, a leader and a mentor for the disadvantaged youth of Ottawa. Having gone through a lot himself, he uses every bit of his experiences to relate and connect with the youth of today and elevate them to positive opportunities. Knowing one the root causes of criminality is linked with poverty, AJ aims to prevent that by providing an alternative option with his non-profit organization Elevate Nation. Like previous guests, AJ had a really tough upbringing where there was abusive parents, constant move from home to home, and violence was always present. Thankfully, football along with several public figures were the saving grace that guided AJ towards a positive path and shaped the man he is today.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with Fokhus, an outspoken person on the topics of Black Lives Matter and the handling of small businesses by the Canadian government. Like always, the conversation begins with questions surrounding the background and upbringing of this episode's guest, Fokhus. He provides a brief summary of his childhood highlighting aspects of racism, strict parents, religion and the police. Such experiences have shaped him to be focus and well disciplined towards his objectives in life, although academically proven, he was for some time aimless in a career pursuit. Today, he is a highly successful entrepreneur with high aspirations to expand and build new businesses to help his community.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with Jacendy, Gee's wife. The central focus of this episode was marriage and since Gee and Jacendy were set to celebrate their four year anniversary, Arturo took the reign as the primary host to ask marriage questions. But before those questions were asked, Jacendy shared details about her upbringing and background to help illustrate her qualities and values. For example, she moved around from cities to cities, and country to country at young age, which played an important role in her inability to socialized with others. Over time, she was able to confront her fears of socializing and learned to develop attachments.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with Reggie Cash, aka Cashboyreg. Reggie Cash is a well known comedian from Ottawa, Ontario. He primarily posts content on Instagram and a few other prominent platforms to his diverse audience. Speaking of his audience, He attempts to satisfy his audience by creating trendy content that many could relate to, but most importantly in a way that is always consistent with his true self. To explain more about his true self, the conversation begins with his upbringing and background, where he points out the fundamental principles and values that shaped him. The conversation later jumps into his creative process and future plans for his content and businesses.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with good friends and colleagues within the podcast world, Franky and Kalilo or better known as Conversationz for Dayz Podcast. Having started their podcast at the beginning of the year of 2020, they briefly described their startup, challenges, and finding their identity for the show. The conversation later opens up on the topic of self-love and self-acceptance, an important topic that has become more prevalent today given the heavy consumption of social media. The fundamental values and keys to accepting one's self has faded, since the association with true happiness and success has been attributed with social media numbers that measures one's self worth. The group discusses why things are like this today and offer suggestions to escape or prevent people from this.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with a longtime friend and upcoming comedian Niya, better known as roadmanstacks. Gee and Roadmanstacks reconnect and share details about their bond, like how they met and how they maintained their relationship over the years. Romanstacks then shares details about his upbringing, experiencing heavy racism, how football provided the structure he needed for his positive development. Romanstacks later shares his current and future projects on YouTube, primarily with his content on social commentary and relationship tips.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with a young entrepreneur and professional trainer, David. Working as a professional trainer within Goodlife has provided David with valuable experience and knowledge of physical and mental health. Realizing the heavy limitations that Goodlife pose on his creativity, David decided to start his own company to explore and better help his clients and all new comers. This conversation features topics on David's time with Goodlife, tips to developing good long-term habits, healthy use of social media, and current business and future plans.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo share a conversation with an upcoming artist from Toronto, Bishop. Detailing important events from his childhood to today to help explain how it has made who he is today. Alongside other things, Bishop provides helpful advice to those lack motivation and finding your niche to make something out of it.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo briefly summary the conversation from the previous episode about Interdependent, then gradually transition into the topic of this episode, commitment. Closely associated with goals, responsibilities, and resiliency, the term can be found in many areas that required long-term commitment, consensual agreement between two parties or more, and anticipated challenges. These challenges vary depending on the type of commitment made, while some are able to fulfill their commitments, many are not. Gee and Arturo share helpful tips and tricks from personal experience to better fulfill your commitments.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo focus on the topic of balancing, specifically on the idea behind interdependence. As many of us know and attempt to practice everyday, is that balance is an essential key to a successful and healthy lifestyle for everyone. Although achieving or maintaining balance is difficult for all, it is very important for us all to strive towards it to avoid the common pitfalls of life. To simplify this discussion, Gee and Arturo discuss the internal and external aspects of balance by way of the term interdependence.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo discuss one of the most important skills for growth, that skill is accountability. Similar to other essential developmental skills, accountability covers a number of other skills, that it has tremendous impact on a person's life once developed. Nevertheless, developing such a skill and maintaining it is one the most difficult thing there is. It goes without saying that in-order to achieve true change, people must be able to endure and embrace true challenge, and Gee and Arturo share tips and trick to developing and maintaining such a skill.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo continued their discussion on goals, but focused more on addressing the core problems, planning solutions, and taking the necessary actions to solve ongoing problems. Many of us tend to distract ourselves from difficult problems or become paralyzed due to the lack of available solutions. In most cases, this stems from the improper approach and mindset that Gee and Arturo will share.
In this episode, Gee and Arturo focus on the topic of goals and all it brings. Everyday and every single minute, thousands maybe millions of people set goals for themselves, but only a small number of people complete these goals. Gee and Arturo explain the reasons behind why most people don't achieve their goals and provide helpful suggestions for better outcomes.
In this debut episode, Gee and Arturo introduce themselves and briefly describe their objectives and goals with the podcast. Similar to starting anything new, Gee and Arturo are excited and prepared for all the upcoming challenges and hopefully introduce something new as a result.