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free session today what does it mean to
be truly wealthy is it having your dream
home buying an expensive car is it when
you're rich enough to have your own
private plane if you ask Armando
Christian Perez who you most likely know
as a musician pitbull wealth has
absolutely nothing to do with money it
has only to do with happiness in this
episode Tony sits down with pip ball to
talk about his journey to achieving
success because today pitbull is on top
of the world he's a world-renowned
musician performer business entrepreneur
fashion icon and actor whose career
sales have exceeded 5 million albums and
over 60 million singles worldwide he's
had number one hits in more than 15
countries and his videos have over 5
billion views his social Reach matches
audiences of some TV networks around the
world
but none of this came easily Tony and
pitbull sat down and they talked about
the power of failure they talked about
why our biggest setbacks can be our
biggest gifts and they discuss what it
means to cut the noise out of your life
and focus on what really matters they
share their belief that if you want real
wealth in your life you have to
cultivate joy surround yourself with
people that make you better and always
find a way to give back
basketball set me up for the music
business because in the music business
if you ask me and I say this in one of
my albums I say I'm involved in the
music business but half of these folks
don't know music and don't know business
have no business in music what is this
and it's just the truth so imagine if
I'm dealing with a bunch of people that
sending me the kind of music I need to
put out the kind of things I need to do
the kind of movement I need to be a part
of or even trying to categorize me as an
artist well it took the discipline from
basketball the fighter understanding
teamwork understanding what it is to
involve yourself for people that are
aligned with the same vision and apply
to the music business
now if the music business would have
been as sharp as they should have been
in the late 90s they wouldn't a sued
Napster they would have bought Napster
in the late nineties they wouldn't Oh
Steve Jobs oh no we don't want to do a
deal with iTunes they would have got a
piece of iTunes they would have found a
way to partner up and in turn they would
have been a part of the iPhone iPad I
everything at this point correct so I
learned from what they with what they
were doing bottom line is failure has
been the mother of all success with
everything that I've been been involved
with and I seen the line the other day I
thought was great where they say you
don't make mistakes mistakes make you
hmm
that's been my life that's all that you
learn from them what you have you have
to learn from them yeah and I've I've
learned from the worse but listen to the
best figure out that riddle and figure
out success and that's why I'm on stage
right now with Tony
your life has not been without pain and
not been without problems you know
people see that some of them so
successful as you are and they miss that
if you would some of those darker days
early on and how did you get through it
because everyone has dark days but not
everybody finds the way through it how'd
you do it
well at first I didn't really understand
the life that I was living what I mean
man I thought it was just
everybody's normal as you start to grow
you look back and you go wow wait a
second I was going through things at
five six years old that I shouldn't have
been going through but I think God for
that and I think for those experiences
because they wouldn't have built the
character to be able to be on the stage
and have this conversation so things
such as I grew up around and this isn't
nothing about being a victim it's just
me being real with child and hopefully
you guys take it motivate motivate
yourself inspire yourself and I'm hoping
one way or another helps you whatever
path and journey you guys are trying to
create but I grew up around drugs I grew
up around abuse I grew up around
alcoholism drug addiction I mean you
name it
pimps everything was around but I didn't
understand it I just thought oh okay
that's Jose Ito let's make a little
that's a man dido
that's just our normal but it started to
shape me and when I mean abuse I don't
know I don't mean I was abused everybody
in my family was abused so you have to
abuse is a very interesting thing it
could either make you stronger or it can
make you a victim yeah I think it's um
an acquired taste there's no middle
ground there's no gray area when it
comes down either you become an animal
or you succumb to the system or the
abuse that's just saying so I got a
chance to read everybody in my family's
different place so my grandmother was a
revolutionist and a revolutionary and a
part of the of of what went on in Cuba
when when Castro took over and she was
one of the first for women to fight with
Castro in something called la Sierra
Maestra
which is when they fought in the
mountains okay so having a grandmother
that's a rebel an aunt that is a
political prisoner because when they
figured out what was going on
they had to they couldn't write each
other they had to meet in certain spots
and nobody could see them talking
because if not they knew that they know
what to play which was the play was
which was that Castro wasn't the right
play right so the started late yeah it
was too late so he started to figure out
ways to get my mother and my aunt town
which was operation Peter Pan operation
Peter Pan was dead I mean basically a
hustle through religion to get them out
of Cuba into the United States of
America and that's how my mother came
over here and my aunt the reason that I
tell you this story because those are
the women that built me my grandmother
my aunt and my mother so when you're
sitting down with someone that makes you
breakfast and starts talking to you
about do you ask yourself these
questions do you see what you're gonna
be do you see what's going on do you see
the opportunity you have in this country
do you see how you could take advantage
of this freedom that you have in this
country do you see that you can control
your own destiny without somebody coming
over here and taking everything away
from your family or killing everybody in
your family basically letting me know my
friend
everything we went through is to roll
the red carpet up for you and whatever
you think you may be going through right
now it's nothing compared to what we
went through that's right remember that
thank you and that would allow me to see
darker days like what are we talking
about at this point
I haven't been through and part of my
French I don't speak French but I
haven't been through it compared to what
my grandmother went through my aunt went
through my mother went through and my
father went through and all I'm doing is
taking what they've taught me and
applied it and taking full advantage of
the fact that I can control my own
destiny you went as you say you made
your life from negative to a positive
always from one negative to a positive
and started to they say show me your
friends and I'll show you your future we
say in Spanish deme honking - and Italy
looking to eros which is you know tell
me who you hang with I'm gonna tell you
who you are yeah so I now look at the
oil
I started to envision the circles that I
wanted to be in in life okay
and what I mean by that is look guys
there's no hidden agenda we're all here
to generate one way or another and make
money one thing is to make money the
other thing is when you let money make
you and I know billionaires out here
that have made all kinds of money and
are miserable and I'll tell you the
worst prison sentence in life you can
have is have all the money in the world
and be miserable you know so I'm here to
just talk to you guys about enjoying the
journey enjoying what it is when you do
create something and know when something
you don't ever want to be that person
where more is never enough you gotta
have fun you gotta be happy that's why I
wish the Forbes list instead of it being
the wealthiest human beings in the world
it should be the happiest human beings
in the world no I understand a member of
your family how'd you listen to some
Tony Robbins tapes so this is I used to
living in the neighborhood in Miami
called Carol City Carol City is a very
interesting neighborhood and still is
they even tried to change the name Miami
Gardens it's still interesting and when
I'm growing up in this neighborhood when
my mother could take me to school
she popping her Tony Robbins tape
believe me the last I'm gonna tell you
Carol City style the last no I was
trying to listen to his Tony rocks okay
so I mean I'm in the car and is 82 Pinto
got to go outside roll the windows down
let the heat out get the motor going so
when his tapes in I'm trying to listen
to 2 Live Crew poison clean
you know NWA at the time matter of fact
from Atlanta they had to hire brothers
which is a song called doodoo brown back
in the day I'm trying to listen to this
so I went to go touch the radio and my
mother
anybody knows my mother she's uh she's a
tough cookie
and she hits me and she said did you pay
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