Resilience, Accountability, Awareness, and Lots of Laughs with Marklyn Johnson

Get ready to have some fun today with today’s guest. Comedian, author, and motivational speaker Marklyn Johnson joins the show. This high energy episode will keep you thinking and laughing the whole way through.

Marklyn begins by talking about his childhood upbringing and the role of his no-nonsense father that helped him to grow and learn through a bit of tough love and building resilience. He gets into his issues with authority, not fitting in to the corporate mold, and not liking being told what to do. He explains his start in stand up and podcasting after realizing the lack of talent on the radio.

The conversation turns to his work with motivating kids, and the issues that technology, coupled with unengaged parents can bring. He talks about the approach that many parents use now to motivate, prepare, and strengthen our children for the future. While some of it is positive, a lot of it is failing them.

They discuss the overwhelming tendency for each generation to continue with the actions and aspirations of the family and surroundings they grew up in, and how wealth usually begets wealth and poor begets poor. This type of generational cycle is also very dependent on race. Marklyn reiterates the importance of teaching our kids personal accountability, financial awareness, and pushing them to aspire to greater things.

Website

https://marklynspeaks.com/marklyn-speaks/

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklyn-johnson-a2a4268

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/MisterDirectJusReal/videos/?ref=page_internal

Instagram

https://instagram.com/MisterDirect

Check out Marklyn's books:

Facebook Conversations: The Good, The Funny, The Ugly

Lessons From a Sh*t Talker

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