You said some books guided you along your journey - which ones in particular?

I like boxing a lot, I like Bikram yoga a lot, and also I just like reading. I take breaks, sometimes longer than I need to, but then I always find a way to get back into it. I'm also not a gladiator, I'm not an olympian. I ride my bike a lot, I run a lot, I do calisthenics a lot. I guess the furthest I'll go left is vegan and the furthest I'll go right is seafood. I haven't eaten meat in six years almost. From there, I just kept pushing until it became normalcy. I wanted to just find more of a balance between the things that I needed and things that I wanted, and food was one of the biggest battles I had to endure. We also have a long line of health issues after a certain point in my family: diabetes, blood pressure, heart attacks, all of that kind of shit. Coming from New Orleans, growing up in Atlanta, we got a real soulful kitchen in my house. To challenge myself, to make it as hard and uncomfortable for me to overcome myself. Just the idea that I could push myself instead of pushing someone else. More specifically, what made you want to adopt a healthier lifestyle? And if all three are just kinda moving at the same pace then I could really provoke the kind of happiness I was hoping to see in others, especially the ones I love.

I just started to really embrace the concept that all of these things are connected so, you know, in order for my mind to be healthy my body should be healthy, and if my body and my mind are healthy, my soul, my spirit is healthy. I joined the вЂњanti-socialвЂ™ club and I enjoyed it: I graduated high school, I went on a little bit of a spiritual journey, if you will. I really thought in order to do that I needed to cleanse my palate in so many different ways, music kind of being one of them. From there IвЂ™ve just kind of been on search to really find out what that meant. Even the ideas I express which are a reflection of the influences that have been given to me in my life: my niece being born being one of them, my brother overcoming a great depression of his own, which made me question the legitimacy of my own happiness. I realized how much goes into my day that I'm not present for and that I should give thanks to, recognize and appreciate, like the coffee I drink in the morning or the clothes I wear, the car I drive, the phone I use - all of these different things. I think it was the moment that I realized mind, body, and soul is interconnected just like most things in the world and most people in the world.

Was there one overall turning point that led you to start living your life differently?

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