00:00You know what, Roja, did you learn anything about yourself going back and retracing the tracks and the footsteps of
00:06your dad?
00:07Did you learn anything from that?
00:10You know what I learned about myself just recently?
00:12I learned about myself going to Burkina Faso.
00:15So I just went to Burkina Faso.
00:17And what I learned about myself, that I could be sitting here in the West, listening to the media,
00:22listening to all these different things of people building fear into you, of you going to places that you want
00:28to visit just as a human being.
00:30Just as part of creation, that you can sit here and listen to the media, listen to all these different
00:36things and never move.
00:37You'll be stuck in your own fear, right?
00:40What I've learned about myself is I should do what I ever always want to do at all times.
00:45At this age, no one should be able to tell me where I can go, where I cannot go.
00:49I learned that being a man is owning yourself and owning your word and be who you're meant to be
00:55in this life.
00:56And who I'm meant to be is who I think I am.
00:58And that's who I am.
01:00Marley Coffee, the Roe Marley Beach House, all the businesses that you have.
01:06Is there one thing that you have done in your life that has been one signature motivation for you?
01:14One thing that drives you?
01:15What drives you when you get up every morning, Rohan?
01:20You know what, you know, there was a turning point in my life that really set me straight.
01:27I remember Miss Lauren Hill saying to me, you know, because when I left college, I had a concept that
01:34I wanted to be an NFL player because I thought I could play better than anybody else.
01:38I think I'm that good when I was playing.
01:40By the way, you were sensational, by the way.
01:42You were sensational, by the way.
01:44Yeah, so I didn't feel like no one's better than me, so I can play anywhere.
01:48So I felt that I didn't get the opportunity to do that, of course.
01:53Playing in the CFL, did that for a little bit, didn't like it too much because I was away from
01:57my life.
01:59I didn't want to be doing, I didn't want to do that.
02:01I want to be doing what I love to do, which is praise the almighty God.
02:04So, but I think the one thing that gave me a great, a great little, like, motivation in life is
02:12when Miss Lauren Hill asked me one day, you know, she says, what do you do?
02:16And when she asked me what I do, I was like, whoa, whoa.
02:21Because at the time I was just trying to figure out what to do.
02:25But realizing that you, you realize in the direction is the most important thing.
02:31So when she ignited that in me, what do you do, that question, what do you do, you know, in
02:36a good way, I said, wow, that's right.
02:38What do I do?
02:40I want to be a football player.
02:42I want to play soccer, but I'm getting older.
02:45So what am I going to do?
02:47When I learned of the farm in Jamaica, that gave me the idea of a concept of how to tell
02:53this Rastafari liberty and principle through my doings.
02:57And that doings was taking the land and starting this entrepreneurial life, which I call the Rastapreneur life, because the
03:04things that we do as, as business, as the business has to be like us.
03:08We're not like the business.
03:10So that was a perfect opportunity to be a, find us, find some sort of business that relates to who
03:16we are.
03:16And that's farming, right?
03:17And farming led me to understanding what organic means, which is Rastafari, because where I tell people, I tell means
03:25we're organic, as well as sustainability.
03:28I overstand sustainability because I didn't want to create something that was going to bring chemicals into a community to
03:34destroy the community, because that's what I thought about first.
03:37So you asked me about burden, that I thought about giving myself burdens.
03:42That was a burden I didn't want by just trying to say I'm in business, by deteriorating people's life, by
03:50saying that I want faster yieldings, I want more for the crop.
03:53I'd rather let the land, just be land than ever putting chemicals on my land, where someone can tell me
04:00it's because of my chemicals that I put on the land to earn a living, destroy their life.
04:04I don't want that.
04:05I'd rather not do that.
04:06I'd rather have the land and say I have the land and whatever grows on the land grows on the
04:11land and let it be.
04:12But it wouldn't be something that I've used to deteriorate people.
04:15So the turning point in my life would be when Miss Lauren Hill asked me, what do I do?
04:19And I said to myself, you know what, Bob's son, you have all this insight in you.
04:26You've been learned so much.
04:27You've been taught so much about Rastafari and you know what that is.
04:31How do you share your wisdom to life?
04:35What is it that you're going to give to society?
04:37How do you become a giver?
04:39How do you become useful in this planet than just being a man that does exist and walk around and
04:44talk about people?
04:45I didn't want to be that guy.
04:46I want to be the guy that was doing and creating and helping my brothers because what I saw is
04:52my brothers doing the same thing my father was doing.
04:54And for, yeah, I got you.
04:56And so what I thought about was that if I can help my brothers do what they're doing, which is
05:03when they work, they take their money and they help people.
05:06If I can put into that pot, I'm doing something because I want to follow my dad's footsteps, which is
05:11one of my brother's footsteps, which is the family footstep.
05:14And that the things that we do, we think about helping people first.
05:18And so that's my inspiration.
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