William King Hollis - Conquer Pain to Achieve Goals

The day my mother's funeral was the first public speech I ever gave. I was 17 years old. My sister and brother wasn't able to get up and speak because they was crying so much. And I got up and delivered the speech and everybody in the room said, that was the most beautiful speech I've ever heard at a funeral in my life. My brother, to this day, when your king Hollis don't even own the lab time. All I do is iPhone. I built all of this, you know, without ever going to speak in classes, so I don't need those type of things.

that you're having as a human being and the impact you're having. So I want to have king on the show. So man, motivational speaker, author of best, the best gift, start from the bottom. Let's, King, let's just start from the bottom, man. Yeah. What's the song now? Start from the bottom, down here. That's my jam. That's my two, man. Yeah, man, we're talking about the bottom. You know, a kid from Pontiac, Michigan, man, mother was a heroin addict. My dad was a career criminal, ran the streets. I bounced around from from house to house. You know, like a lot of inner city kids trying to understand who we are as young men, trying to understand our place on this earth and what really matters and what don't. A lot of people don't realize going up in the inner city.

You see drug dealer uncle, drug dealer cousin, drug dealer brother and everybody goes to the penitentiary. And the only thing we remember about making money is selling drugs. So we step in a place and it becomes a life cycle. And this doesn't matter if you black, white or yellow, this happens in all places. I've been some places in Florida where I saw different, different complexity people selling more drugs than anybody. But what I, what I, what I, what I understood about what I understood about my life and what I wanted to do for my life, I wanted to change that demographics in my community. I wanted to be a greater version and I realized this. When a tree dies, sometimes you got to let it die. And this can be the family tree.

Sometimes you got to let it go and you got to replant a new tree. You got to nurture it better. You got to love it better. You got to appreciate it better. So it can grow and be something that you want it to be and something that represents you. I had a, when my mother passed away, I had a five to six Jewish woman named Bonnie Dutton, basically take me, my brother, my sister, and basically under her wing. And what I realized is no matter where you are, as long as you have love and you're taught the value of love, you can go on to be anything you want to be in this world. And when we used to walk in restaurants, people were staring at it and look at it and they'd be like,

oh, what's going on? And she, I remember she was saying the words, what are you looking at? You don't see the resemblance. And she made us feel love. She made us feel, you know, like we meant something. After we had been through so much a barrier, my mother was 37 years old when I buried it. She died from heroin overdose that my uncle sold it. And when my mother passed, I had God on one shoulder and a devil on the other. I thank God that God put me in the direction of him, a step in the devil, because I tell everybody with this gift of communication, Warren Buffett once said, he said, if you master the art of communication, the world is yours.

And what I realized is with the power of the tongue, it's powerful when used in the right way. They say the kingdom is voice activated. Sometimes people think about it and look at me, I look at the 32 year old kid from Pontiac Michigan, the son of a heroin addict. How is he inspired or teaching these people? How is he touching these people? He's not saying the most profound thing you ever heard in your life. It's not that. The voice is an instrument of God. And sometimes, you know, certain instruments, even as you know that we love Michael Jackson, instruments vibrate the soul. Everybody doesn't have a voice that instrumentally vibrates the soul. It just touches the ear. It can't get to the soul. And I realized this, this is when I discovered my purpose came.

I went to a Tony Robbins conference. And when I went to the conference, it had a gold, silver, in bronze package. I was all the way in the bronze in my life. You're on road 423. You could have watched it on YouTube, but you were on the last row of the other theater.

That's the sacrifice a man must make to make a change. And our duties on in this lifetime is to live full and die empty. My great mentor, Les Brown, Les Brown once told me he said, will you? If you focus on the broken, the broken will fix you. Let me repeat that. If you focus on the broken, the broken will fix you. And what happens is when you serve it and you speak into these people and you talking from a place not that I'm higher than you, I'm talking from a place that I'm in the fight right with you. I'm chasing my dream right with you. And people tend to listen to people that's in the grind with them, the individuals that stand on top of mountains and look down on them.

So what I said was, who gonna go to the swarms of Baltimore speaking to who I will? Who gonna go to Kingston Jamaica three times and speaking to most dangerous cities in the city? I did. Who gets ambassador of peace awards in the most dangerous cities of Kingston Jamaica? I did. Because God said, will if you focus on the broken, I will take every pain that you ever had in your life. And I will remove it from your body. And I will turn your pain into strength. A lot of people don't know when they're on the edge. That's when all the strength is being made. The way I look at every event when I step on the stage, I look at a million people standing on the

legs. I got 45 minutes to talk to these million people of this 10,000 foot legs. I don't want one person in the room. I want the entire room. That's my mission. So when I go in and I speak, I bring something totally different. I study Earl Nightingale. I study T.D. Jakes. I study Les Brown. I study Jim Roe and you know what? You put all that bread, all that, all up in one ball. And now you got William King Hollis. Somebody that don't need no pen, no pad, no sticky notes. Give me my topic. Let me feel the energy of the room and I'm a deliverance speech that you never seen before. I don't care what topic you is. Let me tell you something. I'm just pernoors.

I can pernoors has forgotten the child that laid on the mother's lap. The ones that got so high, they forgot about the days of walking miles and get a pack of noodles in college. They forgot about the days when the dream meant something when they talked about it at the bar with their friends. They forgot about the the essence of the dream. So now they made it to the top and now they empty inside. That's why you see suicide amongst CEOs. They lost their passion. They have nothing more to fight for because they forgot the first purpose to help the world. You'll get all the way to the top and you'll realize I never held anybody else but me.

Then when you lay down at night, you got millions of dollars in the bank account. But when you go to heaven and when God calls you home, God says, that's what you were poor man. I was just saying that I have millions of dollars, God. You help nobody. A poor man is a man that helps nobody. That's a poor man. A rich man is a man that comes home every day after working at God, sets down at the dinner table, prepares that dinner and say they did. That's a rich man that has a family. Society has rich and poor mixed up.

Rich is family. Not the yachts, not the boats, not the cars that are closed. Rich is your beautiful wife, your children, your son and raise on your chest. When he needs you, that's rich. Something that money can never buy. So every day I wake up with a mission to open the eyes of human beings all over the world to make them understand that they're human and that we only have a moment to live. Make sure you live in it. What you do on this earth is your test run. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your test run. Think about it. When they created a test run, they created a simply line that tested the cars and tested the cars until they see it was ready. How many

chances of God giving you? He tested you. He tested you. He tested you. I guess what they do with the cars that don't work. They turn them to the seat metal. They throw it away. God can't work with that. I gave you chance at the chance. It might be somebody listening right now today. God has gave you chance at the chance. But you still don't give them the respect that he deserves. You don't even, when sometimes you can ask the entrepreneur when the last time that you drop to your knees and you thank God from bringing you from that Volvo to that Lamborghini. It was the last time you thank God for taking you from that sectionate apartment to that condo downtown Los Angeles. Sometimes we don't remember how far you came.

I remember sleeping in the shelter, creating speeches in the corner on the iPhone. Never ever imagined that nobody ever listened to me. But the world listened to a homeless kid. That's what God told me. Work for your purpose and not the money because your purpose will make you shine brighter than any individual that works, walks this earth.

If you make yourself the currency, no one can ever stop you. Money can never buy you. Nobody can buy you because you are the currency. And that's what I dream to be is the currency and the person that puts his money where his mouth is and inspires and helps communities all over the world. Where did this or did your ability come from? I mean, I know you're going to say God and I respect that. But and I know you see you studied. You know, so it wasn't you know, you studied others. But where did the gifts come from? I mean, like was it just because were you this way when you we were 15? I don't you know.

I was king. That was the first house I ever asked me. That's so crazy. I actually was the guy that used to go around to everybody's house and convince everybody, mom and dad to let him come out and play football. I was that guy. I remember that kid.

You know, he didn't come out playing football and we need him. He's so talented. He's so talented. But no, honestly, man, when the day my mother passed away, the day my mother showed her. How old were you? It was the first public speech I ever gave. I was 17 years old and my sister and brother wasn't able to get up and speak because they was crying so much. And I got up and delivered to speech and everybody in the room said that was the most beautiful speech I ever heard at a funeral in my life. And one of the prophets at the vet said, he said, you're not, you're no athlete. Just keep living. And one day, man, I was in a shelter. And I got up and created

a speech in the corner with a pillow on a iPhone called Young King, a kid in Philadelphia named Boscow Picasso. Shout out to a kid named Ricky Griffin. It was nothing more but a little teenager. I was Philadelphia putting together YouTube videos. And I got these cheap vista print cards and put them on the the dash of the board at the gym, the golds gym in the Redding Pennsylvania. Shout out to Redding Pennsylvania, the Abraham Lincoln Hotel and everybody down there.

And Ricky said, can you send me a speech? And I said, just so happen to have Young King in my audio. I sent the tool. He posted me in a compilation with Tony Robbins, Les Brown, all the top guys. And everybody in the comments section was like, who and hell is will you King Havness? And he posted the whole Young King speech went viral. One of the most recognized speeches. I believe they took it down now because somebody bought the time off of him or something like that. But it was one of my biggest breakout speeches. And man, it started just like that. Then I started walking to churches. I picked up the $75 suit man. It had this bright peak tie on. And I used to just walk

around the city with my little vista print cards because now I'm a motivational speaker. Boscow you two. So I got it all in my head man. And as I'm coaching, I was coaching this arena team out in a red and Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania shout out to Bernie Nortowski. This man is definitely a part of my story and helped me grow into the man that I am, took me in when I was homeless, put me in a basement. And basically gave me a coaching job man. Cows my first team. Then I moved into the hotel, moved out his spot and stayed at the hotel. But one day a teacher was at a football game and she was listening to me speak to the teacher at football players. And one day she came to me, I like how you talk. I got like five

star athletes that go to running intermediate high school as a high school that we said children that can't function in the regular high school, but they're star athletes. She was like, I need you to come and speak to them. So I went and spoke to them within five minutes. They were in tears man. And I was walking back to the hotel. This is the first time that I was talking about my story.

It made me emotional. It made me suicidal actually. I was walking back to the hotel. The Abraham Lincoln Hotel in red and Pennsylvania to blow literally, blow my brains out. And I got about five minutes from the hotel. And the teacher called me and was like, how much do you charge to speak? And I was like $75 or $100. And I didn't know nothing about speaking, nothing about it at this time. Did she tell you you should charge more?

So we did that. She gave me a couple dozen. I think they all put together like 500 total. I ended up getting like 500 total. And that was after I finished the event. They're like, whoa, we had a little group of dogs. So after two weeks later, I went in. Well, after she called me, I went into the hotel and looked up motivational speaker. I just typed in a motivational speaker. That's brown in the Georgia dome popped up. And so I talked about this story and kept a smile on this face. And I was really good at that because as a kid, we couldn't afford all the football camps. So, you know, us, you know, we watch YouTube videos of athletes, study the moves, study

everything you did go to the game and do it. That's how we learned. That's how I learned in the the speaker industry. I watched Les Brown didn't do no speaking class. Look at that type of stuff. Just watched them. A lot of different speakers. And I went to the school, delivered the speech, got a stand on patient. Eight years later, five, four, eight years later. Like I said, over 900 million views on YouTube. History in Milan. First speaker's reading on Milan fashion weeks. Platinum's spoken word out over a million streams. Where are why? Best out of the book that's self-published. It's just got put in bars and nobles last week. And independently self-published. You know, just everything organic. I've done everything organic. My whole career without any ads, never ran any ads, never did anything. I give my all credit

to God for my entire career, man. Like I am, like I said, the time by little clip where I say, you cannot be great if you cannot operate in chaos. That's been the reason why I said that quote, the reason why there were 10 million views on the page and celebrities, everybody. That has been my whole career and my whole life. I had operating chaos. You seem to have embraced social media though early. I mean, YouTube, now with everything else. Is that just innate in you? You saw all the opportunity to leverage these platforms to build your brand? My brother, to this day, where your King Hollis don't even own a lab top.

All I do is an iPhone. I built everything you all see from an iPhone, from the speeches, to the to the painting purpose video you see on YouTube with diversity. All I did, I recorded a video against a white wall. Now I stop. A lot of people don't know. I freestyle all my speeches. I don't write anything. So what I do is, I go in. I can go in for an hour speaking. God, I just touched me. Multiversity just topped the video up, added movie depictions in the middle of it, put instrumentals on it. It became a platinum album. I literally created that off my iPhone. My whole career was created off of iPhone. Apple executives, if you're listening today, you need to pick up this guy right here. This needs me the next Apple commercial. Today's podcast

See there, there you go. That's how you get the, you are people, that's the people that people don't realize. You got to do it before you get this. People want to get the sponsor, but you got to actually show them the love before him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you know, King, I'm just, I'm just learning, man, like I said, I built all of this, you know, without ever going to speaking classes or any, I don't need those type of things. The main thing for me is just continuing to learn, man, and always being open to learning to be a student of the game, man, being a student that is like, right now, we don't live in a generation where a lot of older individuals see young kings and be like, yo, man, I want to see this young man be great.

I want to see this young man be successful. Now, we got me in that, that, that want to be boys. I watched this episode of Boy Walk Empire and it changed my life on the way I dressed at a vets wearing suits and the things that I was nature. It's not about being corny. In the episode of Boy Walk Empire, Al Capone had an escort this Jewish man around town. The Jewish man will call Al Capone boy over and over and over again. Thank you, boy. Thank you. Everything Al Capone did. And one day Al Capone said, man, why the hell do you keep calling me boy? And the Jewish man replied to Al Capone, as long as you wear the hat of a boy,

you'll always be perceived as a boy. And it changed my whole mindset when it came to life. If a young man or a little boy in my neighborhood never sees a man, he can never know what a man is. So it's not that I'm dressing and putting this suit on because I'm just big on suits, but I know it's bigger than me. It's bigger than me. You're like a sparse man. Like, you know, I always say the most successful people are the most curious people and and the most interested like that that absorb things. I feel like there's like something naturally magnetic about you in the way you take things in and then translate it in your own way. That's your gift. I mean, you got a lot of gifts, but I'm hearing you talk. I'm watching

I got to represent myself as a leader, a king, not a peasant. And if I got to sacrifice that at 32 years old for a betterment of humanity in the world, I do not believe I do not believe that a man cannot change the world. I believe a man can change the world. A man can change the world if he leads the people on side of them and not behind them. Don't tell your brother and sister to stand behind you. Tell them to stand on side of you. They're going to fight with you. They're going to believe. Give your brothers and sisters a voice. They're going to ride with because the worst thing you can do, ladies and gentlemen, the reason the rise and fall of every organization is an arrogant king that didn't give us people a voice.

That's the fall of every kingdom. Like I was telling you before, we started on just a casual conversation we was having. Where did the word king come from for me? When I was a little boy, I was sitting in the living room, Eddie Murphy, Michael Jackson, remember the time video, come on. I remember dancing to it every day until one day, probably like the 10th time watching the video, I asked my mom, I said, what is Michael Jackson? And my mom looked at me and she said, that's a king.

And I said, I'm a king. The king of pop. It stuck with me for my own life. It's something that when I look at every human being, I call them king. I greet them with king. How you doing king? How you doing queen? You royalty. You mean something. You special. That's what matters. It's making other people feel special. I'm going to get my friend. He started an apparel company. He's called kings over cowards. I'm going to have to send you some shirts.

kid from the inner senior Pontiac Michigan and being something like a folk hero in Kingston, Jamaica amongst the people. And for them to put $10,000 together in the poor city like that, to bring me over there and speak to every hood in every city in Kingston, Jamaica. It was truly a honor, man. I had a privilege to do. I did the second annual one love conference.

It was the first one was with Bob Marley when he had got shot and still went to the perform. Ironically, right before my event, three people was murdered in front of the gate. They thought I wasn't going to do the event and I did the event. No fear. It was a great experience because I met people like King Yellow Man, creators of so much different music. I built a relationship with the community. I either stayed in the community. I slept in the community. I didn't get a five star hotel. I stayed amongst the people. Showered out of a bucket, water, carry in my bucket downstairs to fill it up and take bags. I wanted to feel the experience of what it was like to live that life.

That was the day my life changed. That was the moment my career went to the next level. Not because of the history of my line. I'm not going to talk about the pairs of him in the event. All this stuff. I'm not going to talk about all that, but change my life is when I went to the the Marcus Garvey grave site where his bones laid. When I got there, the roster man told me to take my shoes off. I took my shoes off and I walked on it and I felt the electricity from them. They have these rocks like these marble rocks in the ground around his grave site. You can feel the vibration from the rocks. Their set to mural and the roster man tells me to speak to

he told him to tell them everything that I plan to do in my life. When I left Kingston, my speaking level rose to a level that sometimes when I speak King, it's an out of body experience. It's like my ancestors channel that power in the right words. Because you got to understand I was especially asked to write. I've never read more than three books in my entire life because of the simple reason when we read a lot of books. God has given all of us an original creation. Something that the world has never seen is something inside of all of us that God is giving us is something that the world has never seen. But when we read different people paths and stories, we take our original juices, our original creation that God only has for us. No other

man has only you. But when you read other people paths, that's not my path that God gave me. That was his. If I walk his, I'll be a carbon copy. But if I walk mine, I'll be something that the world never forgets. That's a legend. That's a legend. The first to do. We don't have enough of that these days. The first to do. Remember when the first went to the moon? The obstacle was the first to do. It was special again. Now he go all the time. I love it. Stand out or stand down? Stand out or stand down. Everybody's going a hundred thousand miles per hour. You haven't even started the engine yet. I can't take no breaks. I can't stop. I got a, I even got a piss in the bottle in the car.

I can't stop. I got a grime. And you got to understand why it is grime. I want every poor kid in every city, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Chinese. It doesn't matter. I want you to know that you are great. You can be anything you want to be if you tap into the original. The original. A lot of people say they love people. A lot of people say they love humanity.

A lot of people racist and hateful. But they don't understand that we go into the same place, man. Why are you fighting each other to go to the same place? You kill the person you hate to meet them again in the next life. You can't escape. That's why we're never meant to hate each other. We're meant to love and to lift each other and help each other in the places that we lack you.

I love all people because all people has a little special something in them that we can't find and anybody else. And you can need to, for me, you're right. I'm a sponge. I can set in the room and listen to somebody and learn everything about possibly tell their story better than they tell their story. I have no doubt. And what I realize and all of that is God sacrificed Himself for us to be here. You don't recreate the wheel. Remember what I said in the beginning? The only man that will change this world is a man that's willing to give his life and get nothing in return. But you don't get nothing in return. You leave seeds when Marcus Garvey was captured in London. They had him in court

and what the judge said we have finally captured the bear. And Marcus Garvey replied, you might have captured the bear but my colors are running loose. And that's what inspiration does. It's a gift that keeps on giving. All these entrepreneurs, I hear you all the time talking all that shit about motivation is this and motivation is not that. But you know, like I know, your whole career was started off of inspiration.

Everything is birthed in inspiration because if you're not inspired by it, you won't go after it. Some people are inspired by the money. That's why no, that's why they're rich. That's why there are rich nobody. And somebody is some people are driven by the legacy. Think about the greatest people with the greatest legacy was the broken. They died broke. They died broke because they realized that the true meaning of riches is giving everything up. Give it all. What coach used to say when he used to give him the court king, give it all up today, King. That's right. That's what we got to do in life to let him that deathbed is small as our last breath leave our body. I gave it everything. I gave like everything. How many people can say that today? They may watch this

interview. I gave it everything. You can ask yourself and look yourself in the mirror. Ask yourself that question. Talking about mirrors. I'm sorry, King. Yeah. A lot of people probably don't want that answer back though. They know the answer back. They didn't give it all. Where's it going, man? What's on the bucket list? My bucket list right now, man, is to create unity throughout the world, man. I want to do a tour called pushing piece sort. My team is now searching for sponsors, people to just get behind me. Everybody know the speaker industry. A lot of top speakers. They have a lot of sponsors. I have yet to get my first sponsor yet. That's something I always reach out to just so I can start doing more events, mental health events for students around the

country. The suicide rate is through the roof. With all the school shootings, the kids are traumatized. And I want them to know that it's nothing to fear, man. The only thing you must fear is the opportunities that you miss out on. Live life for and die empty. The kids must know who they are and what they represent and what they play in this generation, man. And my main thing is love. We got to spread love and inspiration. There's no topic. A lot of people get it misconstrued when they talk about booking me. It's not just students. It's life. It's entrepreneurs. It's that guy that lost that passion, that workforce that lost that passion, that lost that, that, that, that it's factor that took them to the level that they are today. I just remind people, I'm not going to

massage up. I'm like a alarm clock. I'm just a reminder of the greatness that lives inside of you. That's all I am. I'm not greater. I'm not better. I'm just a man tasting my dream just like the rest of these kings around the world. But I'm willing to help other people on the way to the top. That's the difference. A lot of people believe you can't help people on the way to the top. But that's the best time to help people because you're learning and they're learning too. It's a wonderful success for everybody out here. Every speaker. No reason to hate on each other. No reason to be against each other. It's one objective. One objective. Bring love to a world that has lost it. There you go. If you can do that, baby, you'll never, you'll die.

Beautiful death, man. They're like, man, what am I smiling on that bed like that, man? Because he left everything he had on the earth. He gave it all he got. Working everybody. Keep up with you, man. I can talk to you all day. Think of family. Think of family at William King Hollis on YouTube. William King Hollis on Instagram. WilliamKingHallis.org. Doing some moderators on that side. It should be up in the next 48 hours or so on my new website. And if anybody is ever interested in booking me, reach out to my manager, AJ Brown. I got it. I work with also Maria. Shout out to Maria for sending this amazing interview. Major, major, major shout out to Maria. We love you. Thank you for all your amazing gifts and what you do for humanity in the world. And most

importantly, thank you for allowing me to get introduced to this amazing individual, Mr. Ryan Alfred, man. I want to tell you, man, thank you so much, man. If it's ever any collaborations or anything you ever need me for, you ever doing anything for the community, man. I love to help you. Bring some light to some cities, man. And if anybody's listening to this, I don't know why I compelled to say this on my heart. If anybody's listening to this message today, and you're ready to give up all life, understand that sometimes life will feel like God is dropping you from a 10,000 feet building right before you hit the ground. I promise you, he's going to catch you. He's going to catch you. Man, I love the energy. I love it. It's a different episode for us,