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00:02 - Hi everyone, I'm Rose Marie Miller
00:05 and we are backstage at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit.
00:10 And I have the pleasure of speaking
00:11 with this hilarious man over here,
00:14 the comedian, Drewski.
00:16 - Nice to meet you.
00:16 - Yes, nice to meet you.
00:18 And thank you for joining me today.
00:19 - Oh, you know, we here.
00:21 - You're here.
00:21 - Yes.
00:22 - Well, Drewski, can you tell me a little bit
00:24 about your background and your circumstances
00:27 when you started your journey?
00:29 - Yes, you know, just a kid from Gwinnett County, Georgia,
00:33 man, and I think just being a class clown early on,
00:37 that's what kind of grooved me in my career.
00:41 But sometimes, you know, when you're young,
00:42 you really don't know what your purpose is,
00:43 but thankfully I have good parenting, you know?
00:46 So yeah, no, we figured it out
00:49 in the midst of all the craziness,
00:51 but you know, they don't always support, you know,
00:53 you being a class clown while in school and being young,
00:57 but I had to figure it all out, you know,
00:59 later in life I came back to it and I was like,
01:01 all right, this is my purpose, you know?
01:03 - How did you navigate it at that time
01:05 for all the class clowns out there?
01:07 (laughing)
01:08 - Going through the failures, man,
01:09 you gotta tough it through,
01:10 and I think the biggest thing for me
01:13 was just trying a bunch of stuff out
01:15 and figuring out what you like,
01:17 but if you sit back and don't try stuff, you'll never know.
01:19 - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:20 - And you're saying the failures, what do you mean?
01:22 - Yeah, there's plenty of those, plenty of those for sure.
01:25 - Give us some details.
01:27 - You know, just a bunch of like jobs,
01:29 quitting jobs, getting fired,
01:31 trying college out, you know, dropping out,
01:35 just a lot of different, you know,
01:37 I'm good with knowing what I'm good at
01:40 and what I'm not good at,
01:41 so I'm big on just pursuing what I feel like is my purpose
01:46 and that's what I did.
01:48 - How do you know what you're good at
01:49 and what you're not good at?
01:50 And I say that because there are a lot of people out here
01:53 wandering aimlessly through life during careers
01:55 that may not be really aligned with their destiny.
01:59 How did you find that?
02:01 - Church. - Church.
02:02 - I gotta go to church. - Yeah.
02:04 - Better ask God. - Better ask God.
02:05 - God knows best.
02:06 - Mm-hmm, all right, yeah, you a Southern boy.
02:09 - It's true, hey, come on, come on, it's true.
02:11 - Okay, okay.
02:13 So what was the moment where you knew, I made it?
02:16 - Forbes.
02:19 (both laughing)
02:20 They put that network, that's when I knew.
02:24 Family started calling.
02:25 - Yeah.
02:26 - It ain't the best calls either, but you know.
02:28 Yeah, that's when I knew, man, it's Forbes, for sure.
02:31 - And your friend Jack Harlow,
02:32 he was in Forbes not too long ago.
02:34 - Last year, yeah.
02:35 - Yeah, did you call him and rub it in a little bit?
02:37 - Yeah, nah, yeah, nah, I didn't wanna,
02:39 after they put my money out there,
02:40 I was like, I ain't calling nobody.
02:41 - You ain't calling nobody.
02:42 - Yeah, the calls was coming in,
02:44 I ain't have enough time to call nobody, man,
02:45 everybody calling me.
02:46 So, no, I'm thankful though, honestly.
02:49 It's been a great journey, you know, so.
02:52 - Yeah.
02:53 - It's a lot more to go, you know?
02:54 This is just the beginner.
02:55 - I'm just getting curious,
02:56 how did you manage your money as you were on the come up?
02:59 Was it you, did you have somebody,
03:02 a financial manager helping you?
03:04 - Well, yeah, I met these financial managers through Odell.
03:10 When I was living with Odell a couple summers back,
03:13 he was telling me, he was like,
03:13 "Man, I know you're not making that much money,
03:15 but you should get some financial advisors."
03:18 So I met a guy named Stephan,
03:20 and he owns a company where he has a huge team
03:23 of different financial advisors,
03:24 and they all helped me from then,
03:26 even before I was getting real money.
03:28 And they worked with me, you know,
03:30 they weren't charging me like the biggest fee that they,
03:33 'cause they have a lot of different athletes
03:34 that they work with.
03:35 So thankfully, they let me come in
03:38 with my little bit of money at the time,
03:40 and they helped me out,
03:41 and then as I gained money,
03:42 they helped me out with that as well.
03:44 - What was the biggest--
03:45 - Just investing and, you know.
03:46 - Investing, investing in what?
03:47 - Hey, come on, man,
03:49 we ain't gonna tell you how to much, no.
03:50 Y'all know enough.
03:52 They knew the network.
03:53 (laughing)
03:54 - Well, help us out.
03:55 If somebody were to invest, what would you suggest?
03:57 - Into something that could change the world.
04:02 I think a lot of people try to invest in stuff
04:05 that has nothing to do with anything,
04:07 or, you know, just, if it is a meaning behind it to you,
04:12 and what you have in your life, and what you believe,
04:14 you should, that should be something
04:16 that you should look to invest in.
04:17 - Yeah.
04:18 - 'Cause it's purposeful, you know?
04:20 - Yeah.
04:20 - So, what was the biggest money mistake
04:22 you've made since you've made it?
04:23 - I knew this was coming.
04:24 - Yeah, it's coming.
04:25 - I haven't made a big money mistake yet.
04:28 Nah, I don't really spend too much.
04:30 I think majority of anything crazy that I got
04:34 was all gifts and stuff, so I think, yeah,
04:38 it hasn't come yet.
04:39 I just spend everything I have,
04:41 I just spend it on business
04:42 and trying to increase more revenue.
04:46 Nothing is like just going and trying to buy cars.
04:49 - So you don't go spend dumb money.
04:50 So what is your biggest splurge,
04:52 if you don't do too much of it?
04:54 - Back into the business.
04:55 - Back into it. - For real, yeah.
04:57 - Okay.
04:58 Well, Drisky, I'm also curious,
05:00 you don't spend too much money.
05:04 You don't do a lot of splurging.
05:05 - Well, no, I didn't say I don't spend too much.
05:07 I spend money, but it's on the right things.
05:09 Yeah, it's on the right things.
05:11 - So, do you feel like fame and money
05:14 hasn't changed you at all?
05:15 - We ain't got to that point yet, trust me.
05:19 - You haven't gotten there.
05:19 - Nah, not yet.
05:21 And I don't think it'll ever happen.
05:22 I think you gotta keep good people around you.
05:25 So I pride myself on keeping my family,
05:29 my close friends, my team, everybody close together.
05:31 So it keeps you tight knit
05:33 and knowing where you're headed
05:35 and where you came from, more importantly.
05:38 So yeah, that's really what I'm on, yeah.
05:41 - So what do you believe that's about you
05:44 that made you successful?
05:45 Because respectfully, there's a lot of funny people
05:47 out here.
05:47 What made you successful?
05:49 - Um, a little bit of everything
05:52 just working in my favor.
05:53 And I think it's small pieces with my team,
05:58 myself, my parenting that I had growing up,
06:01 discipline, and a lot of amongst other things too as well.
06:07 But yeah, I gotta give it to all those,
06:09 not just one thing, you know?
06:11 - And as you know, you've been in the headlines
06:14 quite a bit lately.
06:15 - Oh girl, you crazy.
06:16 (laughing)
06:17 - You've been in the headlines.
06:18 - She crazy.
06:19 (laughing)
06:20 - I'm curious, how does it feel?
06:22 - What you hear about?
06:23 - You know what I heard about.
06:24 - I don't know what you talking about.
06:25 - Well, you got some people in high places coming for you.
06:29 We wanna know, is it real?
06:30 Is it fake?
06:31 - Hey man, y'all just gotta keep watching.
06:33 - Just gotta keep watching?
06:34 Well, how does that even feel to have people?
06:36 - Let me see, I gotta peek behind my back.
06:38 - Look at you, uh-uh, I gotta look behind my back.
06:40 Who coming for you?
06:41 - Nah, they ain't coming for you.
06:42 (laughing)
06:44 - No, just, really, how does it feel
06:45 to have people in high places
06:48 doing this?
06:49 - Nah, it's, you know, we here man.
06:52 Your idols turn to ruffles, that's what they say.
06:54 - Oh, so it's real.
06:56 - Hey, I ain't saying too much, that's all I'm gonna say.
06:59 - That's all you're gonna say?
07:00 - That's all I'm gonna say.
07:01 - That's what you're gonna leave us with?
07:02 - Mm-hmm.
07:03 - All right, Drewski, thank you so much.
07:04 - You see, I keep looking.
07:05 - Yeah, I see you looking.
07:06 (laughing)
07:07 I'm too close to you now.
07:08 - Nah, we good, we good, we good.
07:09 - I'm too close to you.
07:09 - We good, y'all, we good.
07:10 (laughing)
07:11 Thank you though, thank you.
07:12 - Yes, thank you so much.
07:13 - Yes.
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