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From AI Literacy to Leverage: Building AI-Powered Assets with Kellen Coleman

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What if the gap between talking about AI and profiting from it is only one habit wide? We sit down with Kellen Coleman—PR strategist, government contracting pro, and builder of AI-powered tools—to unpack how creators and small teams turn brand visibility into real revenue. The throughline is simple: certificates don’t close deals. Consistency, timing, and proof of work do.

We start with the difference between AI literacy and AI leverage. Kellen traces how collecting knowledge means nothing without shipped projects, measurable outcomes, and rooms where decisions are made. From RFIs to RFQs, he explains why showing up early in procurement cycles creates unfair advantages, and how reputation flips outreach so that opportunities start finding you. We map the first AI moves for teams under ten: goal-led prompting, agent workflows for research and drafting, a shared prompt library, and a weekly rhythm that converts saved time into shipped work.

Money is the next frontier. Rather than automating tasks only, we use AI to reshape financial behavior: budget baselines, debt payoff plans, 401k funding strategies, and clear monthly reviews that compound. Kellen’s stance is direct—retirement should mean dignity—and the path runs through systems that beat impulse. We also tackle the minority-owned business edge in this AI moment. Certifications open doors, but outreach, delivery, and narrative depth close deals. If the playing field of information is now flatter, focus becomes the lever that moves markets.

By the end, you’ll have a clear, practical blueprint: pick one AI platform, ask it to refine your prompts, build something tangible this week, and measure output over hours. Think asset-first, not attention-first. Let your brand do the pre-selling, and let consistent work make you easy to recommend. If this conversation sharpens your plan, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs the push, and leave a review telling us the one AI step you’ll take this week.

Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Follow The Brand! We hope you enjoyed learning about the latest trends and strategies in Personal Branding, Business and Career Development, Financial Empowerment, Technology Innovation, and Executive Presence. To keep up with the latest insights and updates, visit 5starbdm.com
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And don’t miss Grant McGaugh’s new book, First Light — a powerful guide to igniting your purpose and building a BRAVE brand that stands out in a changing world. - https://5starbdm.com/brave-masterclass/

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SPEAKER_00:

So I want to welcome everybody to the Fun Ram Podcast. This is your guy, Grant McGall. I got my guy. I'm telling you, this guy is down. You can see him already. He's down here in Florida. I just came back from Florida about six months ago. I'm feeling the difference now because I'm in a world where 30 degrees is a hot day. He's down here in 80, 90 degrees, sitting, chilling. And I see him back there. Love the shades, love the energy already that he's bringing to the table. We're going to have a candid conversation around what I call the AI explosion into our world and how it's amplifying, how it's changing, how we can now take advantage of it, not step away from it and understand what we really have in front of us as a platform, as a methodology, a way to create business opportunity, career opportunity, and all the like, and have a great conversation. So, Kellen, Mr. Kellen, would you like to introduce yourself?

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, and thank you for having me on, Grant. My name is Kellen Coleman, and I am the owner of Coleman Public Relations and Consulting Firm, CPRfirm.com for short. We also have MillionaireX.ai, that's just an app that we build on a website to power our clients to have the AI tell them how to save, invest, and get out of debt and stay out of debt. And I am just a nosy guy who loves strategy, been doing this for over 20 years, full time, full time for over 11. And I'm just happy to be here. So thank you again.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, we're happy that you are happy. How about that? Oh, yeah. Now, I want my audience to understand where you sit. You uh for me, I think you sit at the intersection of AI, you got public relations, you have government work and the creator economy, you know, that we keep hearing about. My my first question I want to ask you is this is what problem were you trying to solve that pushed you into building this kind of hybrid type career?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, this career started at 12. I was in my backyard, like on the swing next to the, and I just knew my grandmother had businesses before her. Family had businesses. My parents uh did not have businesses, but they, you know, encouraged creativity. Um, they told me, and this is a mistake that you can tell your kids, you know, you can be whatever you want. And if you really hear that and you believe it and willing to work for it, so I wrote the vision down at 12 that I wanted this firm that I have, that I represented athletes, entertainers, whomever needed help. And it wasn't, you know, fully all the way together, but the scriptures say you write the vision down, you make it plain, then you put the faith without works is dead part of it in. So I knew I was gonna have to work. So once you do that, it was like you can't be stopped. Only God can stop you. And like only God can judge you, Tupac. I'm from Oakland, California. So, you know, so I just knew I wanted to work for myself because I struggled in school until I probably got to Audible University in Kansas and really then excelled at Brambling State, where I met my wife. But I knew that I didn't want to have to follow everybody else's rules. I knew I wanted to wear my own custom clothing,$20 shirts from Ghana, wearGhana.com. I wanted to make my own hats. I wanted to wear my own Zenny$20 shades, and I wanted to show up as me, not as anybody else. And I think for black folk, we always, you know, they talk about code switching. You have to speak the language of whoever you're talking to, but you get to show up however you want. And I had clients tell me, whoa, man, I mean, you can do that if you are like a rock star. And I said, baby, I am a rock star. And then you look at a resume, I am a rock star. So I'm gonna show up how I want. And the day you know more than me, um, one of my former clients would say something, you can run the show like that. Until then, I am giving you the strategy, you're paying me to help you grow. I don't work for you, I work with you.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man, you love I'm loving the life. That is the essence of a personal brand. It's okay to be you, you are promoting you, you you, and you know more about you, should know more about you than anyone else would. Like you said, then you can run the show. That one, that a I'm putting that in my book. That right there is game-changing technology and understanding who you are and what you are about. Now, here's something that's going on. We're gonna talk about this a we're gonna unpack some of this AI buzz that's happening. I know a lot of people they're collecting AI or artificial intelligence certificates right now. Now, you've actually deployed AI in businesses, media, and government. I want to ask you what separates AI literacy from AI leverage?

SPEAKER_01:

Woo! It's like, you know, guys who are ladies who get degrees in technology, but they haven't built anything. And so I have, you know, on my LinkedIn, because my the team told me I should, and part of the team was AI. I should let people know all your certifications because you might have more than most, you know, outside of my master's degree and all that. But just going through these certificates, just like going through school, how many people out there have a master's, but they're not working in their field? They're not, you know, PhD maybe, and they might be at Starbucks. And it's not to shame anyone, it's to say, okay, I passed the course, I passed the test. Can you put anything together with all that information you have? So just having the verbiage down and watching podcasts like yours and shows like yours and shows like mine and moonshots with Peter Diamantes, who I learned so much from reading The Fat Futures Faster Than You Think, and everything that he's written, right? Um, and again, your book, Giving People Game. I write books, giving people game, but you gotta put it together. I have a publishing company as well, but I used AI probably for the first time in my real knowledge. Eight, nine years ago, when my friend Lena was leasing out her code, and I had my seven, she was seven at the time, she's 15 now, and she I said, make a hundred words, and we're gonna make this a crossword puzzle book. And that book today is on Amazon and other places, and she was able to do it. I I couldn't make a crossword puzzle book for just a hundred words. AI helped put that together, so that's the difference. What can you build? Don't just talk about it in a course, show us what you have built.

SPEAKER_00:

That is important. I call it applied knowledge. You have to be able to apply the knowledge to your point. I can read all the books in the world about swimming. Just put that out there. Swimming, just swim, just because you got a pool behind him. I want to, you know, I like to swim in that pool right now. But however, reading a book about swimming doesn't mean you know how to swim, right? Because about you throw me in the water, and all I've done is read books about swimming. It's gonna be tough, buddy, uh, to keep afloat. Guaranteed. So that that that difference that we're really getting into is that that AI literacy and then leveraging the AI, meaning utilizing AI, applying the AI to your own workbench, your own workflow, your career trajectory, your business trajectory. How can I take something that I can get information very quickly about, most of the time very accurate information, and but then apply it, you know, to how can apply it to amplify everything that I am doing. I think you're doing that now at a at a great level. And I'm glad you're showcasing that, especially on your site and you're showing people like, yeah, it's nice to get your certifications. Do that, but then become a practitioner, you know, practice with this thing. Because the more I utilize the tech, the better I got. I start to see the nuances, what it can do, what it can't do, the difference between these different modalities and different versions of the uh artificial intelligence, especially we call large language models. And there's many other types of AIs, not just what we call a large language model. There's all kinds of other things around there that can help you do work better, faster, quicker. Now, you've helped clients go from attention to actual money, contracts, deals, platforms. Where do most people break down when they try to turn visibility into revenue?

SPEAKER_01:

It's in the this is this is one you'll understand because I don't like being the youngest person when I'm going to chamber meetings or when I'm going to the forum club, you know, at the Palm Beach. But it's in the things that you won't see the quick flip. It's in the, you know, Mr. Knowles of the Miami Day Chamber always says in this Tuesday meetings, it's not who you know, but who knows you. And so it's that. That's the part where I've had a hard time bringing people, even some of the closest people to me, saying, let's show up. Because especially content creators, they say, no, every time I turn on that camera, I make a thousand dollars minimum. And you want me to go take an hour or two hours, whatever the time is, to go somewhere and go shake hands with someone. And I don't really like that type of work. Even my own wife, you know, she's a radiologist. Before that, she was a nurse. She's like, I can make X amount of dollars just picking up a ship. That's not something I really want to go do. You go do that and bring some other people who want to do that. Bring some, you know, other folks who can put the red bottoms on because those aren't even comfortable shoes. And you go have your fun. And so that's where I see, and also on the government contracting side, you know, you still have to do the networking, but you then have to learn what a source of SOD is. You have to learn that at the RFP stage, you might already lost. You need to be on the RFI, RFQ responding and letting procurement know who you are. And that's where when people say, How do you get government contracts? I said, I don't get a ton of them, but I appreciate all the ones that call me and we want to knock out the work because we want the next job and the next job, and all you have is your name at the end of the day. And even the mobsters that I knew in uh New England, they knew that it's all about your work. Even the guys in Brooklyn, I'm from Oakland, they know it's all about your work. You're only as good as your work and your work and your consistency. So that's what the breakdown. Most people don't want to be consistent. That's in the relationships, that's in business, that's in school. They want to show up and have the good, beautiful woman, the good, beautiful car, the house, but they don't want to consistently have to clean that piece and take care of that piece. And, you know, there's ways of doing stuff, and that's where the consulting, we do consulting first, because most people don't know how much PR they need. And I truly think I can teach 13-year-olds how to do PR, and PR has changed with AI.

SPEAKER_00:

A hundred percent. A lot of things that you're saying, I want the audience to really lean in on the I and you've heard it a lot of times. People tell you that, you know, that that get a rich, quick, you know, scenario, or you see somebody that that with a certain level of attainment. I look at email myself, like, hey, yeah, you know, I could do those podcasts, I can I see what Grant's doing. Yeah, but you know what? I have done over 260 of these. So it's become easy for me. If you go back and look at my very first one, you're like, oh, he was kind of you know, not there. Uh, but but you saw the potential. Now I'm living past just the potential into the actualization. You've got to put in the work and and be persistent about it, be consistent. If you're consistent in your brand delivery of what you are, who you are, and you're bringing that to the table. And to your point, the people that that that that know you, hey, I know Kellen. You know what? I've got this project. Now they're calling you up. That's the difference, I think. When people begin to reach out to you, instead of you always having to reach out to them, I think you start to see the switch start to change. Like, all right, I'm in demand. I'm actually being or becoming the brand that I thought and knew I could be, whether that's in business or that's in career. And I I am living the dream because I've crew I'm creating it every single day, right? And like you said, you you've gotten some government contracts, you've done the work. You know the difference between RFP, RFI. You RFI mean I can get in there now and actually start to influence what's taking place. At the RP, they've already made a decision. Now they just have to go to the formality of actually contracting who they really want to be uh uh their vendor of choice, right? Now I'm gonna switch just a little bit. Talking about AI, especially for small business, for small teams. You've helped creators and small teams scale with AI. If someone has fewer than 10 people, 10 employees, or even they're just working for themselves, where should AI actually, in your opinion, be deployed first?

SPEAKER_01:

First, in what their goals are, the same things they would ask someone like you or me when they want a consulting session. First, ask the AI. Go ask the AI, but don't just say AI this. Say AI, this is what I want to do. Make me a prompt to help me ask you in a better way. And maybe you use your AI agent after you get that good prompt because the AI agent's gonna go even deeper, and they can give you a prompt for this year or 10 years, and you start there, and that costs you absolutely nothing. You can do that on the free models, I'm sure. You can find the computer at the library. If you don't even have a computer, are these thousand-dollar phones that cost way too much? That's where you start. This year I was in Ethiopia in Lalibella, which has the oldest church, you know, in Africa, maybe the world, you know, you people say what they want to say, but I was teaching people at a bar restaurant how Chat GPT worked in Lalibella, where uh 100 miles down the road or less, there's a civil conflict going on, and they were just so thankful. And and it was just like, yeah, let's just go do this, right? And so you can do it anywhere in the world, and that's why it's a beautiful thing because it doesn't care what race you are, but you're gonna have to try, and you can't say, like I hear some people from California um when I go home, AI is the pollution and this and that. And those are the people AI will replace. It's not gonna replace you if you use it, but if you're gonna be so against it and not even try, I'm gonna get a 12-year-old, 13-year-old to replace you, and I don't care what your job is.

SPEAKER_00:

100%. And I want that we want to unpack that even. You have to understand this. I talked about a little earlier, but you have to understand this. It's just like when Microsoft came out with their suite of business tools. How are you going to get employed if you don't know how to do Word? You don't know how to do PowerPoint, you don't know how to do Excel. Those are table stakes, right? Then again, on the Google Suites and things like that, you need to know these things to be in modern business. That's it. AI is the same thing, and those tools I just named, all of them now have an AI component. Some of them in Microsoft, they call it Co-Pilot. It's an assistant for you, not a replacement assistant. And I tell people all the time, if you can be replaced by AI, what are you doing? It's an open book test.

SPEAKER_01:

It's an open book test. How do you fail?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, you fail because you don't know what you haven't driven it, you don't you haven't gotten into it, you don't understand how you can customize it for your own use case to make it. I'm gonna tell you right now, my AI that I how I utilize it and how Kelly utilize it, is two different things. We might be using similar tools, but we're getting different outputs because we're utilizing it for different things. So the customization of AI is beautiful, the personalization of AI is beautiful. As someone who has to follow the brand show, and I I I I pound the facts of personal branding because that is how you get in front of the audience that you're looking to influence, being visible, not because you want to be what you call a social influencer and that millions of followers. That's not what I'm talking about. How would it be if you're going after government contracts, let's just say, and then Callan walks into a room, let's just say, and everybody already knows about who he is and what he does. How does that change the conversation immediately? Right? When people refer you to someone else and like, oh yeah, this Grant McGall, this is what he does. The first thing that Kellen did when I asked him to be on the show, he looked me up, search social. He got a good feel like, who is this guy? Oh, oh, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I can vibe with this guy. We'll go ahead. But look, if he did that and nothing was there and it was cricket, you'd be like, sure, I want to be associated with all of that, you know. So you gotta be very, very intentional about your brand, your brand development. AI can help you do that at a much higher level than without it. Now, you also talk about financial behavior, not just income. We're talking financial behavior. In your opinion, how does AI fit into changing people's relationship with money rather than just automating tasks?

SPEAKER_01:

I'll tell you that, but first I'm gonna tell you when I first saw you, and he he's passed, but my biological father, I said, Is this one of his brothers or cousins? That's what I first thought. I, you know, and when we first were talking, I said, you know, and then I know I've seen some other stuff on you. So it wasn't like, you know, because you're gonna be on my show as well, thank God. And I and I reached out to you because I saw what you were doing. So your name and your reputation, you know, um, is uh was already there. But how AI is changing that is we have no excuse in the so-called greatest country in the world, the nation where we are the fattest, we spend the most on everything. I'm 200 pounds well. Last week I was 200 pounds. I'm 190 now because I'm not eating sugar. Thank you, Miracle Barry. Thank you. Um, miracle fruit. Y'all check that on Amazon. Um, I we can put in our finances and throw it in and get a plan. I'm a follower of Dave Ramsey as well as Jesus, right? I follow Jesus first, but Dave Ramsey helped me pay a big amount of student loan debt off during the pandemic. And it was like, we can do this and use AI to say these are our bills, this is how much we have. Now we can't do that if we think we need to rock the latest, whatever name brand, and we need to drive a$60,000 plus car, and we do um, we we do nails and come to people's houses and do nails, and we do hair, and we have to drive a car better than you know, these millionaires and billionaires, even who a lot of times ride used, right? So the AI can you can put your numbers in. And one thing Dave Ramsey talks about in his books is. Teachers are the best savers for retirement. And they retire multimillionaires. And we know we don't pay our teachers enough, right? We know that. So you have no excuse if you're making more than$40,000 a year not to have some money, not to have a fully funded 401k, which is the guaranteed way for you to be a millionaire. Ask somebody who's fully funded their 401k, especially when they front-loaded in the beginning of the year. This year it was 23,500. I think it goes up a thousand next year dollars. That's what AI can tell us. And it can also tell us what I can do, even if I, you know, whatever my limited skills are, because we're all limited in some way. What can I do to expand and make more money? And you know what AI told me? Because I'm a certified financial social work coach, but I'm not a social worker yet, but I've done that work in the past. It told me how to make a million dollars if I go get my MSW. And I'm gonna go work on that next month because I always want to get my knowledge up and give the best game. And so it told me with what the programs you've created in Kingham Road, even though it didn't last after you left, the things you need at the Phoenix Academy and all these other places. This is what you could do to make a million-dollar business. And that's a bit I'm I'm colonoscopy age. So I just really want to build, build, build, so I can then pull not just my kids, not just my family, but even people who need the work. We got so many talented people in America, but they need work and they need meaningful work, especially with AI.

SPEAKER_00:

100% on the meaningfulness. That's it. It's about having meaning and then having purpose. We we we can change the conversation like, well, we didn't have access to. Well, we have access to a lot of information, a lot of data, and then a lot of knowledge. And because of that, you can now create commerce for yourself that you could not do before. I think entrepreneurship will be so um lucrative with the AI uh advancement in our culture because they're even talking about now, you're gonna start seeing the one man billion dollar company. Imagine that. He said, Wow, one man could generate a billion dollars. How does that happen? It happens through AI, AI agents, agentic AI. You start doing things at a higher level and start really percolating in the money, and all of a sudden, that actually not becomes something that's so far-affeted it can happen. But start thinking like if you can make a billion, you could definitely make a million, you can make a few hundred thousand. So let's start thinking about that. Start playing this game of monopoly at scale, right? We can't just pass go collect$200 and then hope and pray that we get some property at some point, some kind of asset. Asset creation, I believe, is what can be accelerated in the AI age. If you can create assets, you create value. Now you've got long-term growth potential. And like you're talking about the teacher who's investing in that type of thing. We've got to understand how this model really works in a capital society and take advantage of it. So you not only have money for your yourself for the month, for the year, but for years and for generations? That's how that grows if you can do it successfully and and maintain. Here's the question, especially for my minority business advantage. And I know that you have worked globally across a lot of different communities. Here's the question Do minority-owned businesses actually have an advantage in this AI moment? And if we do, what in your mind do you think that is?

SPEAKER_01:

Again, they can hide, they have an advantage and they can hire again your AI to tell you certain things that the SBA, SCORE, and PTAC, now it's called Apex Accelerators, and even us, what we can tell them. You can draft out your plan, but you're only as good as your prompts. And so people sometimes say, Well, how would I know what I don't know? And that's when you do need still humans to let you know, hey, I've been there. Uh, my father in law would say, I can see more sitting down than you guys can see standing up, you know. And it's like, okay, because of that wisdom and the things that you've done. So minority business owners definitely can, but you also have to understand when you are a minority in your business owner, and I've I've played this uh survey, different people who have done tens of millions of dollars in government contracting. Don't think just because you got that certificate that they're gonna call you. You still got to work that certification and that thing. And sometimes they put you in a box of just minority. So you also have to know the white guy didn't have to go get that. And you will have to go deeper and say, hey, I just don't do black community organization. I can do all community. And when you talk the way you need to talk and show them that you're good and you're reliable, I don't care who it is. Here in Palm Beach, the Jewish Foundation, they hire black folk at high levels. I've uh, you know, interviewed one of the ladies who does their communications, a PR. But black folk, my wife and I just came from uh Brandy and Monica show in Miami. One thing black folk gotta do, and I'm hey, this is me saying this, it's not Grant. The whole stadium, grandmas and everybody, whether you were clothed or not clothed, right? Properly. Everybody knows the songs when Sexy Red came out for her one thing, when Trick Daddy came out. But when we do our surveys of do you know how much you can fully fund in your 401k? Do you know about Roth RIAs? Even medical doctors, even lawyers who are making bu money, y'all know say, you know, I might as well be speaking Spanish and they don't speak it or our Cantonese, you know, me how they it just, and that's the problem. What are we focused on? We're focused, are we focused on just the entertainment of things, the cheerleading, the football, the sports? We need to get focused like that and on fire to get our coast fire number. If you don't know what that is, I want y'all to look coast fire number up because when you hit that number, you can start talking like this and you can start saying, I don't care about the BBLs. I want to know that at 80-90, if I need to spend$150,000, like George Dubeck tells me here in uh Florida, you might need that for your health. And I don't want to be needing more money at 80, 90 and have to work for it. I want to be set and good. Dave Ramsey and other platforms, John Hope Bryant, just came from that conference in Atlanta. These people are showing you how you can do it, but are you listening? Do you have an ear to hear? Some folks are gonna be retrobate and obsolete, but we're giving you the game for free 99 right now, wherever you're experiencing this podcast.

SPEAKER_00:

And and you speak the truth, and also you point to a gap in our mindset in our society. I'm talking about all of society, especially American society. I talk about this a lot, especially in 2025. I'm not happy with our educational system and the fact that we're not teaching our kids to understand what this game is all about. When you graduate high school, if you don't understand that you are on a monopoly board, I don't care. You are on a monopoly board. You're gonna learn to pass gold and collect$200, don't get me wrong. And you can do that in engineering, in science, in healthcare. That's passing gold, collecting$200. Is that gonna help you win the game? No, anybody who's played the game Monopoly understands that's just part, that's just the beginning. The game is about collecting assets and collecting uh uh communities that work together. So you have a monopoly, right? So you have you own park place and board and boardwalk, you own these things. This is the game, you don't have to like it. This is the game. That's like going out to going around a football game, you're going on a football field, you're going out there with a baseball bat, you're going to lose, all right? So you understand the game, you have to understand the language of money and business and understand how I can negotiate with Kellen because Kellen over there he has the two gold properties. I got one gold property, but he might need a couple of these red properties I got, and you negotiate on that and you make trades based on that on values on your end and the other. Monopoly teaches you some basic skills, and anybody with a third, fourth grade education can play the game. We've got to double down on this in our society. Like, this is the game. Entertainment, that's part of life, that's fun, that's great sports and all that, but that really is a business. They're not doing that just because it's just fun, they're doing this because it's a business. It's fun when you're playing out in the schoolyard. Yeah, and you go outside and you play. That's fun. No, they do this because it makes a lot of money, and we can actually have fun playing this game. It could be a lot of fun playing this game when we understand, like, oh, I cannot participate, I can have access to the capital because the bank is giving me money, but you've got to know how to use it. You said something so important. You go out there, you, you not dispersing anybody, but hey, if you're not making over, I'd say even a half million dollars a year, but you and you're buying a 60, 70,000, 80,000 car, you've got to understand economies of scale, right? And what that those values really mean. You need to your money needs to be invested in a way so it's more long-term than short term, right? And understanding the time value of money, I think is more important. We should all know that formula. Everybody knows one plus one perfectly will equal two. If you don't know the time value of money, every tenth grader should know the time value of money. This is a basic concept in in the world of capitalism, understanding that. So I think there's a misstep in where we got to educate. So we have to educate me and you, and then the Dave Ramsey's and the others, you have to understand the game that you are commanded to play in, whether you like it or not. And then we go back to our AI discussion. This is a tool set, like, look, guys, this is like we're all going back to to go, and we're all starting with a whole new car. We're gonna give everybody AI and we're gonna send you off there. And but you got to have the right mindset. What do you think about that?

SPEAKER_01:

Amen. So all of that mindset is everything. And I know you know there'll be people and say, man, talking fine now. I'm not trying to hear all that, but you are when you're at the bar, you are when you are on bail. All these things matter at some point. When grandma passes, you know, it's a shame that there has to be a fish fry funeral or people have to contribute. There should be insurance. We should know this game. We are not off the plantation, we are here, we are, you know, whether you're born here or not, um, you gotta get in this game. And a lot of immigrants get this game even quicker because they have their own banking, whether they call it a Saul, uh a Juju, um, a John Ghee, and they work together. Now, I find that my black Americans, I'm born in Oakland, California, and my people have business, but some of my own family members say, Oh, I never, I never knew that. I never, no, no, we have to pick up a book. Miles Monroe tried to tell us read a book a week. And when your wife starts reading two, you need to catch up, you know, and and and God bless him. I learned that via YouTube, YouTube University. What are you watching? Yeah, what who are you around? They say, you know, your network is your net worth, and that pigeons don't fly with evils. And it's easy to say that, but you got a lot of pigeons around you and get them out or pull them up and tell them, hey, we're going to the library, we're going here. Because we can't blame immigrants, we can't blame white folks for the stuff we don't know. Now we have AI. Are you gonna wait for the neuralink to come and it's gonna have to be implanted in your brain? And then you will be forced to get it. And I can't wait to get the neuralink because I'm gonna be speaking every language, but but yeah, you are you're right on, and we just have to do better. You get better 1%. I don't have it all figured out. I'm still getting better 1%. I'm trying to get rid of my heathen ways, you know. Catch me in traffic or somewhere else. Uh, I'm trying to get rid of my heathen ways, just like you're trying to get better.

SPEAKER_00:

Everybody gets better, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

No, we all got to step up our game. This is an opportunity to reset and and really focus on how you can become a champion. Every year, like I'm a big NFL guy, I'm watching NFL, but if you really look at the NFL now, these are it's not always the same team that gets to the Super Bowl. Sometimes you beat Printer, you've seen the New Englands, you've seen the Kansas City Chiefs, and and things like that. Now you got the Denver Broncos like the Denver Broncos, you know, because they put in the work, they put in the work and then they begin to excel in their field. We can also put in the work and excel in this field because now we can play in this game. I'm gonna leave you this one question I want to ask you, and we'll conclude after this. Is if someone listening right now, if someone listening wants to take one concrete step this quarter or into 2026 to become AI ready, not overwhelmed, what would you tell them to do?

SPEAKER_01:

Get on an AI, whether it's chat GPT, Gemini, lovable, durable.co, where you can create your own website just like that. The AI will do it. Um, there are some, you know, durable is a lot easier than lovable just because of some things you have to interconnect, API keys. But again, A AI can tell you how to connect those things. That's the beauty of it. The day it gets too hard, you can go hit Fiverr up, which is starts at five dollars and find someone to help you what you don't know. And you can always come over to cprm.com, but practice every day. Put it in a practice when you wake up, read your Bible app, go through that with Uvision, go say, thank God I'm still alive to do something, you know, work out on your Peloton or around your house, wherever you live, and then get on AI, maybe while you're doing some of that, and get better 1% and learn something different, and you know, tap into podcasts like this. Tap into my podcast as well, and just subscribe and tap in every day and put down the stuff you used to do. If you want to go brand new, I used to tell kids this who were on heroin and things like that at 13, 14, 15. Hey, you got to put down that and pick up something else. We just gotta replace it, and then you gotta get addicted to that. We got to find what that is for you, and that's you know, and it's the same thing. Put down the sugar. I was I'm a recovering sugar addict, but thank God a miracle berry. I've not been on the sugar for two weeks and I'm happy.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, I like that. Miracle Berry. We're gonna put that shout out out now. If somebody wants to get in contact, why would somebody want to get in contact with you? What is the business value that you bring to the table?

SPEAKER_01:

The real business I'm in is making sure people do their purpose and can retire with dignity. I'd love for you to retire rich or even wealthy, would even be better, but I don't want you to retire in debt. I don't want them to have to have the fish fry. I don't want you to struggle your whole life, and it doesn't matter how much money you make. Yeah, we our prices are high. I'm not gonna lie, but I've been doing this for 25, you know, 20 something, whatever years. I'm worth that, and we're dealing with big budget sometimes, but I don't, it's not even the budget, it's the work. So it's the person when we're vetting the next client. So you come to me when you say, you know what? I don't have anyone else to trust. And for the works that we do and the certifications and the education, you could be a blue blood, if you guys know what that is, hit me up. And you could be dang near homeless if you have the drive to push. I might tell you, hey, I gotta get a piece of this business that we're gonna build it up. I'm gonna be honest with you. But when people want to go to Africa, I don't want to just take you to Africa. I want you to bring your audience to Africa, and then I want you to put your business in Africa just in case, you know, whether it's your wife might leave you or you might just want to retire. You know, people say my wife might leave me. Yeah, you can funnel some money beforehand and put some things together just in case, because we don't know what's gonna happen, right? And so you come to me when you want to get right. I don't put myself as a life coach, but we can do life together. And whatever you want to call me, you can call me that. But I just, you know, and if you want to interview a diversified game, cost you nothing. I just like to tell stories on how people started, sustained, succeeded, so others can learn. And that's what it's all about living in your purpose.

SPEAKER_00:

I love that. I love that. And how do they get in contact with you?

SPEAKER_01:

You I'm everywhere at Kellen Cash with a K, everywhere with Kellen Coleman, C-O-L-E-M-A-N, LinkedIn. You can just, you know, Google the name. Cprfirm.com is one of the websites. Millionairex.ai also has my contact. My number is so out there. Anybody can have it from the homeless to crazy presidents that I've denied invites from the you know different events just because I'm not a photo op. But if we can do some real business and reform, um, not saying the president himself invited me, y'all, uh, at any point, but I go where I am needed. So 925-3675478 is the bat hotline. And I'd love to hear from you, no matter what the capacity. And I love what I do. And again, I just thank you for having me on.

SPEAKER_00:

No, I want to thank you. This has been wonderful, Kellen. This is how we start our day, we start our week, we start our year hearing these kinds of things. Like, we got to make a change. Unless you love what you got in the last year, being like, no, I want more, then this is things you need to do. Make a change, like you said. You need to put something down and pick something up, right? Right, right. You need to put down that sugar, put down that diabetes, right? Miracle, Barry. I love, love hearing that. Love hearing that. I want to encourage your entire audience to tune in to all the episodes of Follow Brand. You will find over 238 some out of episodes in different buckets, whether it's financial empowerment, whether it's technology innovation, whether it's career development, business development, personal branding, executive presence, and brand mastery. All of that is there for you for free if you want to take advantage of it. That is the number five and a start, S T E R B for Brand, D for Development Informasters.com. I want to thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you. Yeah, bless.