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July 2nd, 2008 truly became the best day
of my life because I thought it was the
ending and it actually turned out to be
the beginning.
>> How did you even get there or you became
addicted to something?
>> For me, it was opiates. I I started I
was 14. You know, I dabbled with all
sorts of other drugs, but once I became
an agent at 24, I understood morality
clauses. So, I had to be very careful
about doing anything with any illegal
drugs. Darren Prince, CEO of Prince
Marketing Group. 25 years driving sports
and entertainment marketing.
>> $500 million in deals and a roster of
global icons. Get ready for insights
from a true industry powerhouse.
>> The general public saw my life and
thought I had it all. Millions of
dollars coming in with the business,
biggest stars in the world, but it was
miserable. I just got to the point where
I didn't want to wake up anymore in the
morning. So Darren, it's not only um you
got through that chapter of your life of
the addiction, like you're into the biohacking.
biohacking.
>> Yep. I think it's probably 10 or 11
protocols every single day that I
implement. Got to throw in the hydrogen
water. The red light therapy. I've got
that too next to my bed.
>> It sounds like you're living my life.
>> Yeah. Yeah. There's actually healthy
stuff out there that people may think
they're eating every day and have no
idea why they're continuously getting
rashes or something that the body is
rejecting. What's the advice you can
give the ones that are saying, "Well,
I'll change tomorrow."
>> I'm good. [Music]
[Music]
>> Welcome to another episode of a healthy
point of view podcast. I'm your host,
Sam Tahara, and as usual, we're bringing
people from all over the world to talk
about health, wellness, beauty, and
mindset. Today we're bringing our guest
here who is an expert and agent in the
world of entertainment
and working with athletes. He's an agent
who's he's this guy has probably seen it
all when it comes to the entertainment
world. But part of it there's something
that we deal with on a daily basis,
people that especially they get involved
in that world of entertainment which is
addiction. He dealt with it himself and
he was able to overcome it. And now he's
a huge addiction advocate helping people
overcome those addictions. And today
we're going to talk about that because
that's something that has to be
addressed. That's something that we want
to be able to give people the guidance
so they can overcome it and live their
best life. Today we have Darren Prince.
What's up, brother?
>> Thanks for having us.
>> Yeah, man. Pleasure to have you here. So
Darren, man, it's just, you know, for
the viewers and listeners, who is Darren Prince?
Prince?
>> Who is Darren Prince? I guess I I'll
give you like the 30 secondond version.
So I grew up in New Jersey, live in
California now. Been a agent for 31
years. Uh, Magic Johnson was my first
client. Still with him to this day. >> Wow.
>> Wow.
>> Hulk Hogan, Charlie Sheen, Carmen
Electra, David Gogggins, Ric Flair. um
you know a lot of iconic figures but
that's more the work side the personal
side that means everything is just two
weeks ago I celebrated 17 years sober
>> amazing bestselling author of my memoir
aiming high that was published in 2018 I
have my own 501c3 charity the aiming
high foundation that 100% of the
proceeds scholarships people in need of
treatment and it's the first and most
important thing of my life, recovery and
helping people out there that are struggling.
struggling.
>> I love that, man. I love that. And that
that's a powerful thing. And I I I could
tell you, you know, 12 years working as
a firefighter paramedic, you know, uh I
was exposed to a lot of uh people that
had addiction issues to different
opioids and other type of uh addictions
as well. And um sometimes people can't
overcome it and it ends up in in going
in the wrong direction and it can lead
to death, right? It can lead to uh
families being destroyed. >> Y
>> Y
>> um people losing their careers, you
know, things that we've worked so hard
uh to accomplish. So, you know, there
there's a a personal uh spot in in in my
heart when it comes to helping people
overcome addiction. Um, so, you know,
the first step I want to talk about is
how did you even get there or you you
you became addicted to something?
>> Yeah, I mean, for me it was opiates. I I
started I was 14 and you know I dabbled
with all sorts of other drugs but once I
became an agent at 24 um I understood
morality clauses so I had to be very
careful about doing anything with any
illegal drugs so you know having magic
and all the clients I had chvy Chase
even early on was Dennis Robin there
were so many that doctors just saw the
external sense I remember even bringing
them signed smoking Joe Frasier boxing
gloves and Muhammad I'll eat boxing
gloves as gifts and like I can't have a
problem. Whatever he needs, give him
whatever he needs. >> Wow.
>> Wow.
>> You know, so it was kind of like I just
manipulated the system and uh I'm I'm
careful when I speak. I do a lot of
speaking all over the country,
especially when it's high school kids because
because
it worked. It did actually work the
first five or six years as an agent. But
at one point, what was once living to
use turned out to using to live. So
whatever those superpowers that the
opiates, the oxycontton, the percoetses,
the vikans were giving me completely
turned on me. Couple overdoses after
that. And uh I had a moment of clarity,
a godshot. Uh my late uncle and his
girlfriend Andre, who actually lived in
Miami, were visiting my mom in New
Jersey. And I was at that jumping life
off point, man. It was like I was just
living this double life. all my boys and
the general public saw my life and
thought I had it all. You know, millions
of dollars coming in with the business,
the biggest stars in the world. But it
was this double life. It was miserable.
I I just uh you know, got to the point
where I didn't want to I don't want to
wake up anymore in the morning. Wow.
>> And uh so my uncle Stu and his then
girlfriend visited my mom on July 1st
and they paid me a surprise visit to my
condo in West Orange, New Jersey. I
never met this woman before, bro. And um
it was like tractor beams. Like I was so
drawn to her and I was fully vulnerable.
She asked me if everything was okay and
I told her the truth and she's like, "Do
I realize I'm I'm an addict?" And I
said, "Yeah." And she goes, "Do you
realize that you're powerless?" I said,
"Yeah." And she goes, "Do you realize?"
And she looked at all the photos on the
wall of me and Ali and Fraser and Magic
and Pam and Hulk. And you know, I said,
"Raz, this doesn't mean anything because
you don't mean anything to yourself." >> Wow.
>> Wow.
>> And that broke my soul. And I started to
cry and uh she said, "I can help you."
And 24 hours later, I was uh in my
apartment in New York City with my then
wife and um I called up my uncle and
Andrea. They were back in Miami and I
said, "I can't do this. I'm detoxing. Uh
I'm going to call the doctor to get what
I really want to get." And they they're
on the other line. This is the damn
disease talking. You got to surrender
already. Become accountable. Get to a
12step meeting and get the help you
need. And I said, "I can't do it. I've
been to those dumb meetings in my early
20s." I slammed the phone up, bro. Ran
into the bathroom, locked the door. Then
wife thought I was uh, you know, going
to kill myself because she was a part of
a couple of the overdoses. And she's
banging on the door. And I'm going
through the medicine bottles. But I
wasn't looking for opiates. I was
looking for one of the narcotic anxiety
pills that Andrea said I can take during
the detox period. And out came two
Vikings, which was so crazy because I
specifically remember on July 1st in
that evening of 2008, we spent hours
cleaning out all the medicine captain so
I wouldn't be tempted having any opiates
in the house, right?
>> And here there are two opiates. But
whatever reason, man, it's one of those
moments in life. I fell on my knees. I
screamed out to God, take the money,
take the business, take the notoriety.
If you give me a single day of freedom,
um I'll I'll take others out of hell.
And it was a white light moment I've
never had before and haven't had it
since. It was like the shoulder caught
fire. I heard a voice say, "I've got you
and you're ready. I flushed the pills.
Went into the living room, went onto the
computer, found a 12step meeting in the
church uh in the upper 80s." This was
way before Uber and this beautiful
summer night, sitting in a cab on the
way to uh this church in the upper 80s
for this meeting. I I'm looking up at
the sky and I said, "Wow, the hell just
happened for the first time in my life.
I wanted to stay sober." Well, that I
wanted to get high. And I walked into
this church basement and 150,200 addicts
and alcoholics were all once for a
hopeless state of mind. And the leader
said, "Is anybody knew anyone coming
back or anyone sick and suffering?" And
the sand went right up.
>> Wow. I often said, "I believe it was God
that raised my hand because
>> that takes a lot of willpower to even
raise your hand."
>> That my ego was crushed. I literally
came in at the jumping off point and I
knew this was like a matter of life and
death. And to say, "I'm Darren. I'm an
addict. I'm struggling. I um I've got an
unbelievable life outside these rooms
and I'm killing myself. I need your
guys' help."
And about a dozen spiritual brothers and
sisters came over and they told me so
many things, but the one that really
moved me was that they were going to
love me before I ever knew how to love myself.
myself. >> Wow.
>> Wow.
>> And that just made me feel a part of
something for the first time in my life.
It wasn't even my clients, my close
friends, my family. This group of
spiritual brothers and sisters that knew
how to get through life one day at a
time uh without, you know, relapsing or
picking up became closer than my family.
As close as I was to my family, it's
hard to even say that, but they they
were it was like they just understood
everything about my thought process and
I became immersed into it. And then
after a year, my sponsor, Steve, who's
like my spiritual brother, he's got 38
years now, uh, calls me up on my one-y
year birthday and says, "It feels pretty
good, right?" I said, "Yep." He goes,
"All right, look, you've been a taker.
You've been coming to meetings and
taking, taking, taking, but you got to
start doing is giving back." And he
goes, "You've got a platform with the
people you know around the world that
you don't need to disclose the exact
name of the fellowship. You could say a
12step recovery fellowship has changed
your life. And he just said, "But you're
sober." He goes, "I got a feeling you're
going to help a lot of people around the
world." And I did it. And that's when
everything changed.
>> I realized that, wow, this is uh this is
unbelievable. There's a lot of people
out there that need help.
>> Yeah. Darren, you know, I'm listening to
your story and and I I wasn't realizing
until you get got to the end of of about
you being a taker and you got to be a
giver and when you started saying that
you at that point in time you have the
platform, you got all the top people
around you. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> You you were you
were at the top of the mountain. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> But at the same time, it seems like you
lost yourself.
>> Yeah. I lost myself. I had no sense of
fulfillment. Um
the money and the success and the
notoriety didn't mean anything anymore
because you're just looking to uh wake
up in peace and to just find that
happiness again. And what I thought
was real happiness which was the
external success and all that validation
wasn't it you know until I started doing
the work. um you know putting a year
together, two years, three years
together, giving back, starting my own 501c3,
501c3,
um charity, you know, writing the book,
um you know, everything I do on my
personal development from, you know, and
all the biohack and everything else that
I do because just like my guy David
Gogggins, I wanted to be uncommon
amongst the uncommon in recovery,
>> right? Because a lot of times they talk
about the 12 steps and the 10th step is
about continue to take your personal
inventory and when you're wrong promptly
admit it. That's a step for everybody in
life. You don't need to be an addict or
an alcoholic. But why do we want to keep
taking our personal inventory when we're
wrong promptly admit it? Why don't we
get to the root cause of that character
defect and get rid of it?
>> So through meditation, breath work, NLP,
um frequency work, everything else that
I do to go deep into my subconscious on
a daily basis. Um, yeah. I I I want to
get to the root cause of everything
>> is I want to be a higher version of
myself the next day.
>> That's amazing there. You know, a lot of
people are always consistently moving
around in that train of success,
>> right? Where you can lose yourself very
quickly. And
what what is one thing that you can uh
really share with the audience
be because when you're in that that that
train of success, right, and things are
just happening and you're going up
climbing that mountain and you're
getting exposed to a lot of the
different vices, you're going to
parties, you're doing this and it's it's
like happy time, right? But at the same
time, you get stuck into this thing
where it's almost like
you start thinking about it and you know
that you're doing something wrong, but
then you just say, "Oh, I'll just change tomorrow.
tomorrow.
>> I'll just change tomorrow." And it's
always tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
>> What What What's the advice you can give
to some of the listeners about the ones
that are saying, "Well, I'll change tomorrow."
tomorrow."
>> Yeah. It's it's really just working on
sense of self because
um you know nobody's given a handbook at
a young age on how to be successful. Um
but at the same time we're not educated
enough with the temptations that are out
there. And a lot of times most of us
aren't developed enough at a young age
to even know half of who we are and who
we want to be. So when you're around the
temptation environment um very easy. I
mean it's why do you think we see so
many musicians, actors, actresses, you
know, athletes, you know, mess up at a
young age, >> right?
>> right?
>> But I think it's most important thing to
me, not that my friends were bad people,
but I really think it's about surround.
It's your surrounding. It's your
environment. It's the friends that you
choose to hang around. And you know, we
say people, places, and things. It's the
people you hang out with, the places you
go, and the things that you do. I think
most people are logical enough nowadays
to understand if they're around a good
quality group. And if you're not, you
have to start changing your group around
a little bit, right?
>> To be around like-minded people that
understand that they want to be on that
path of growth, personal development, um
you know, change, being the best version
of themsel physically, mentally,
emotionally, and spiritually. And if
it's anything but that, you just got to
Doesn't mean they're bad people, but
like my friend Joel Olstein says, you
got to learn to love certain people from
a distance.
>> Yeah, I agree with that.
>> You know, because they will take you
down their road a lot quicker than
you'll take them to your way of life.
>> Yeah. You need people that are on that
top of the ladder that are there to
>> lift you up, right?
>> And at the same time, you want to have
that arm extended to lift up others as
well, too. Do do you feel that now
through everything that you've been
through that you could go into some of
these environments that you were in
previous to and be the light inside of
that environment?
>> Yeah, 100%. It happens all the time,
especially with what I do for my career.
You know, there's so many individuals
that I speak to in an whether it's
12step meetings, whether it's phone call
Zooms, seeing people in public. Um
there's times where, you know, I could
just be out at a restaurant. Even this,
I mean, this bought me so many
experiences. Is the logo of the
fellowship that I'm in and um I've had
so many people stop me, man. And becomes
a conversation at a restaurant where
that actual person or somebody else is
struggling and I'm able to get them the
help that they need and point them in
the right direction. And I've even
scholarship people through my
foundation. It's just unbelievable
because, you know, I think now my
authenticity has become and
vulnerability has actually become a
superpower because it's so rare. You
know, I think if I didn't do what I did
for a living and I'm just this regular
everyday guy talking about this, I might
not get the level of respect and appreciation,
appreciation,
>> you know, but it's kind of hard when
people see, you know, what I do for a
living and who I work for and whom some
of my closest friends in the world are
some of these, you know, amazing men and women,
women,
>> but that's not the most important thing
to me. And they'll tell you the same
thing. You know, 90% of my calls with
Magic Johnson are all calling have
nothing to do with business. It's about
life. Charlie Sheen Gogggins, the same
thing. Um, we we're just all in this
amazing, you know, place of just being
happy, healthy, wanting to serve others.
They want to see their families do good.
And, um, they're just so happy for me
finding my purpose.
>> That's amazing.
>> You know what I'm saying? I I I truly
found my purpose for my pain.
>> Right. Right. And you could change so
many lives with that, you know, and just
even coming on platforms like this and
just sharing it with the world. You
know, the reason why I asked you the
question earlier is that, you know, I'm
a I'm a believer. Um, and I live my life
through Christ and I have a lot of
friends that are also believers, but
they they won't step into an area where
there is temptation, right, or where
people are doing drugs. I'm I'm a little
bit opposite, you I I feel like God has
given me a very um strong heart, a very
strong mind where I can go into these
environments and I'm I'm not going to be
tempted to do any of those vices. I'll
actually be the light to try others and
help people to move away from it.
>> And it seems like you've been able to
get yourself there to be that light.
>> Yep. Yeah.
>> Now, if there's someone that's listening
who says, "Man, I want to be that
light." What are the steps you recommend
that that person take?
I mean re really if if if you're
struggling it's about number one having
accountability stop pointing the fingers
we all got trauma in the past good bad
trauma it all exists you know blaming
mom dad whatever all our parents did the
best they could with what they had you
know so it's looking at you in the
mirror and basically admitting that
you're the one that's messed up and now
taking an action to get the help that
you need so when you can get on that
solid ground you can now be a light to
other people Right.
>> And um you know, I mean, it's meditation
for certain people, it's counseling,
it's 12step recovery meetings, it's
church, it's whatever faith, you know,
um whatever it is that allows you to
take that bottom and make it a brand new
beginning to then become that light, do
it because time and life goes by so
fast. And you know, none of us want to
be could have, would have, should have.
Because when you get there and the
miracle truly happens, it's the greatest
thing in the world. Then you understand
what real wealth is. I've done very well
for myself in my career. So have you.
But you also talk about putting the Lord
and God first. We understand what real
wealth is, right?
>> Like if I lost all this stuff tomorrow
and the success, it's not going to
change me, right?
>> Because I found me on this journey. It's
the difference between
>> I found who I really am what makes me
happy and I know I can find something
else to rebuild whatever because I
realized the stuff it was never about that
that >> right
>> right
>> it was about like I said finding selflove
selflove
developing that real self-esteem and
self-esteem comes from doing esteemable
acts to serve others
>> I love that I love that because there is
a big difference between outer wealth
versus inner wealth Y
>> right. We're always looking for that
that external validation of who we are.
>> But the the internal validation is what
people have to work on.
>> That's your that's our legacy, >> right?
>> right?
>> The external stuff. Great. So, we pass
things along. But no, that doesn't
change lives. The lives get changed and
we get remembered for what we do for
people that that are struggling and that
need a break and that need a helping
hand or whatever it might be. So Darren,
it's not only um you got through that
chapter of your life of the addiction,
man. You you've taken it to a whole
another level like you're into the
biohacking, you know, and that's
something that um
>> you you have to have like that desire
for that.
>> So um let's talk a little bit about your
daily habits of what you Yeah, my
morning started with uh my med
meditation. And I got my my boy Landre
does different uh 10 12 minute tuneups
for me to start the day in own little
apps that he sends me. And then I went
into my frequency watch. You don't you
guys don't have frequency out here. You
know, I've tracked up and tried it. It's
it's next level stuff out.
>> So So the frequency So So now you're
talking about language. So I'm big into
bioquantum, right?
>> Yes. So it's next level. So I actually
have a frequency watch that works on
detoxing the liver, the kidney,
inflammation in the body. I run that for
about 20 years.
>> I haven't heard of it.
>> Yeah, it it's next level showing Gary Bracket.
Bracket.
>> Last time I saw him and he went wild. I
mean, I've taken Gogggins to this place.
It's called um Sports IQ. If you guys
want to look it up on Westlake Village,
okay, California, it's in the Four
Seasons. My boy Brian runs it. He owns
it. Next level stuff. And they could
treat you remotely, too. >> Wow.
>> Wow.
>> Through light. It's unbelievable. So, I
did that. Um,
>> what do they do? They get like a hair
follicle from you and then treat you remotely.
remotely.
>> It's um it's like bioresence. I mean, I
can send you guys the link on it after,
but if you look up sports IQ,
>> it's mind-blowing. They can literally
treat you 30,000 ft in the air. If you
have an upset stomach, if you have a
migraine, if there's something not
right, they can literally diagnose you
through the computers just from having a
stock photo of you uh looking through
your eyes on the Yeah, we got to talk
about this after. There might be a
business venture to start expanding some
of the locations because it's legit. I
>> I've always said that's the future of
medicine, all that.
>> I I will connect with my boy Brian, too,
because it's next level stuff. So, I
have the frequency watch. Um I did my
grounding patches. >> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> All right. So, I I have the the the
little if if I don't bring my mat, I
bring the patches. I got to get a nice
workout in.
>> And um you know, that that was the
basic. Then I did a cold shower
>> uh cuz I can't obviously the ice bath
can't come with me, right?
>> And um there's other things I do like
tuneup wise throughout the year. My boy
John is a NLP practitioner, neural
linguistic programming. So he could take
you deep into your subconscious and pull
out some of um you know the patterns,
thought process that could actually
cause physical disease within the body,
right? Mentally, physically and uh so
him and I have been working together
probably on and off. He's he's a
personal trainer of mine for years, a
nutritionist, and he started studying
this 20 years ago. It's what Tony
Robbins does. It's incredible. So, you
know, we check in maybe once or twice a
year, but I do love the um 12 steps. The
the spiritual meetings mean so much to
me. You know, I still do them five, six
days a week.
>> Any plant-based medicine? Um, no. You
know, people have told me a lot about um
obviously the owasa and my boy Lingre
>> um he does the the micro doing and he's
told me about it and I have been told
you know from the opiates from so many
years of opiates that there is a little
bit of damage in the rear low part of my
brain and he's mentioned to me that the
not the iawaska but the micro doing but
it's just really never been me like I
look I realize I'm still a work in
progress right?
>> Like I'm as as
higher self as I've ever been. It I say
like this, I'm not exactly who I want to
be. I'm still not yet where I want to
be, but thank you God I'm not the person
I used to be. Certain things like I'm
like I don't you know I know people in
recovery that talk about the Iawaska and
the micro doing but I'm just really I
really don't think it's needed. I think
where I'm at in at 17 years now I'm in a
really good place.
>> And you feel good.
>> Although what's that? And you feel good.
>> Yeah. And I feel good.
>> I'm 55. I feel like I'm in my You don't
look like 40.
>> Like I said, you know, I've got the 10X
supplement protocol. I mean, there's so
much stuff that I do. My my my I'm not
even kidding, bro. I think it's probably
10 or 11 protocols every single day that
I implement. Got to throw in the
hydrogen water. I mean, the red light
therapy, I've got that, too, next to my
bed. There's a lot of stuff.
>> You It sounds like you're live living my life.
life.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And at 55, there's not many
55 year olds that do it. And I've been
doing it for several years now. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> And I know it works, but we got to get
you on the frequency.
>> Yeah. I want that.
>> It's a game changer.
>> You know, listening to your story, you
went from like literally one end of the
spectrum to a whole another end. Like
you're living the the healthy life.
>> So So Darren, you know, right now
there's a big movement that's happening
um with the new administration called
the MA. Make America healthy again.
>> Yeah. Um, you know, you're really into
biohacking and everything else. Uh, what
do you think about this movement under
RFK Jr.?
>> I mean, it's it's needed. I actually
spent time at RFK in September. He's a
big recovery advocate, too. Uh, Tucker
Carlson's a good friend and client, and
I got to go to one of his events in
Anaheim, and I thanked RFK Jr. for what
he's doing. I mean, it's needed, man. I
mean the there's there's so much that
parents don't realize um that we're the
kids are eating at a young age
>> and but I've also realized too from so
much of the biohacking and you know like
10x for example their blood work is very
different than traditional doctor my boy
Brian at the frequency place can read
things that most blood results can't see
like you can legitimately be eating
tomatoes and it could be causing
inflammation in the body. There's
actually healthy stuff out there that
people might think they're eating every
day and have no idea why they're
continuously getting rashes or something
that the body is rejecting. So, I just
think overall we're like seems like
we're like this obese nation that's
constantly just eating like the worst
crap. It's all about, you know, the the
the sugars and the carbs and it's just
not enough emphasis put on it. And the
reality is I think for the youth um it's
so important man because if they're not
putting the right stuff in their body
five six seven eight 10 years old guess
what happens by their late teens their
early 20s mental health becomes
>> mental health hormone issues all kinds
of stuff
>> and and and you're getting into those
developmental stages getting addicted to
putting the wrong things into your body.
>> Wow. Wow. They they said there was a
statistic out there that said that if
there were to be a draft the people that
fit that age of a draft men about 70% of
them are out of shape to be in the
military. It's
>> terrible. That's insane.
>> I mean that in my opinion that makes our
country weak, right?
>> You go to other countries, some of these
men are men, you know, they're built
like men, you know, so um you know,
health and wellness definitely needs to
be uh kept a priority. Absolutely. And
even the stuff I mentioned, like what
people don't realize, I was on Bradley's
podcast and we're talking about it and I
talk about the wellness stuff I do all
the time. It's not that much. Like I
know people are struggling out there,
but you know, a grounding mat, you get a
decent one for 100 bucks. Hydrogen water
bottle, 150 bucks. Like you got two
great pieces right there. Red light
therapy, another 150 bucks. you're under
$500 for three major items that help you
with inflammation, brain health, and
various other things.
>> And you can do it every day, you know,
it doesn't have a consumable cost. You
know, you just fill a little water
>> and and and if you don't know the extra
100 bucks for for the grounding mat or
the 150, whatever it is, take your shoes
off and walk barefoot on the grass for
15 20 minutes a day and tell me how you
feel after doing that for two weeks.
>> Go get some natural sunlight first thing
in the morning, right?
>> Same thing.
>> So, you feel it. It recharges you. And
these are some of the simple little
hacks, you know, because one one of my
goals, me being Dominican, growing up in
the inner city and and my two partners,
they're they're African-American, is um
you know, getting this out to the
minority community, this information
that you and I are talking about right
now. And you know, obviously money is an
issue in in certain uh areas, but at the
end of the day, there's a lot of these
things that you can do that are not
expensive, and a lot of it is free, you know.
know.
>> So, I love that band. you're you're
doing some powerful stuff. Uh Darren, as
we wrap up here and um there if there's
any listeners or viewers that really
resonate with today's message,
especially the message uh of what you
live through through addiction and you
can lead them off with one thing. What
is that?
>> I mean, if you're struggling, just ask
for help. Stop living in shame. Stop
living in the double life. You know, you
can DM me on Instagram or Facebook. My
Instagram is @ agent_dp.
Um, it's the biggest blessing of my
life. What I thought was the worst day
on July 2nd, 2008 truly became the best
day of my life because I thought it was
the ending and it actually turned out to
be the beginning.
>> Wow. Wow. Brother, I appreciate you
bringing this positive message to all of
the viewers and listeners. You're
changing lives, man.
>> Cool. Thank you for having me, my brother.
brother.
>> I appreciate it.
Guys, you heard it from Darren.
That day that he mentioned was the start
to a new portion of his life to help
others. We don't just have a duty to
take care of ourselves, we also have a
duty to take care of others. So, even if
you're not the one who's dealing with
addiction, we all deep down inside know
that we know someone who is. It's our
duty to help that person out. And if you
don't know the steps on how to help
them, Darren just said it. He's here to
make sure we can get these people led
into the right direction. Reach out. All
of his information is down below. Make
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