Gratitude & Abundance: Turning Challenges into Opportunities with Chancellor K. Jackson | Season of Self Love Podcast
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Gratitude & Abundance: Turning Challenges into Opportunities with Chancellor K. Jackson | Season of Self Love Podcast

Join host Nyomi Banks for this inspiring episode featuring Chancellor K. Jackson, author of "Fourteen Days in Beijing" and testament to the power of transforming adversity into abundance. From a promising football career to an unexpected detainment in China, Chancellor's journey demonstrates how gratitude and resilience can turn life's most challenging moments into platforms for empowerment and purpose.
🎯 What You'll Discover: • How to maintain mental strength and accountability during life's lowest moments • The power of transforming trauma into purpose through storytelling • Why adversity introduces us to our true character and potential • How to rebuild identity after losing what defined you • Practical ways to turn setbacks into comebacks through mindset shifts • The importance of embracing every choice and decision as part of your growth
💫 Chancellor's Transformation Story: Born and raised in Atlanta, Chancellor didn't start playing football until 8th grade - late by Georgia standards where most kids begin at 4 or 5. Through sheer determination and manifestation ("I'm going D-I" became his daily mantra), he earned a Division I scholarship to Stetson University. After graduation, he moved to China to teach English, but six months into what was supposed to be a year-long journey, everything changed with three knocks on his apartment door.
⚡ The Beijing Experience: On April 4, 2019, Chancellor was arrested by Beijing police for cannabis use and spent 14 days in Beijing Penitentiary as the only foreigner among 14 Chinese cellmates. With no shared language, no communication with the outside world, and only a plastic bowl and spoon, he faced the ultimate test of mental resilience. Rather than breaking him, this experience became the foundation for his purpose-driven life.
🌟 The Power of Accountability: "I constantly knew what I was doing and the repercussions from my decision making. I can't really get upset with nobody but myself. I got to take this to the chin. I knew my mental was still going to be intact, my spirit was still going to be intact."
🔥 From Prison to Purpose: What started as casual storytelling to friends about his experience became a bestselling book when his friend DeMarco Reddens suggested he write about it. Taking Chancellor's phone and creating an outline in his notes app, DeMarco sparked what would become a publishing empire - six books and counting, with "Fourteen Days in Beijing" hitting #1 in multiple genres over 15 times.
💎 The Coaching Connection: Chancellor now uses his experience to coach young football players, teaching them that "adversity introduces a man to himself." His prison experience provides powerful lessons about pushing through challenges, maintaining character under pressure, and discovering what you're truly made of when everything is stripped away.
🛠️ Building Abundance from Adversity: Chancellor's journey from detained teacher to bestselling author and coach demonstrates several key principles:
  • Accountability Over Blame - Taking full responsibility for your choices
  • Mental Resilience - Maintaining inner strength regardless of external circumstances
  • Purpose from Pain - Recognizing that difficult experiences often contain your greatest gifts
  • Manifestation Power - Speaking your goals into existence with unwavering belief
  • Identity Reinvention - Learning to redefine yourself when old identities no longer serve
📚 The Publishing Empire: Since "Fourteen Days in Beijing" launched in 2020, Chancellor has:
  • Published 6 books total (4 authored, 2 mentored)
  • Released "The Power of Becoming: Seven Pillars of Growth and Empowerment"
  • Mentored authors including 15-year-old Tanesa Sadler, whose book held #1 for 9 straight days
  • Built Corlett Publications LLC, specializing in creating bestsellers
🎭 Key Insights on Gratitude & Abundance:
  • Gratitude in Crisis: Even in prison, Chancellor found things to be grateful for - his intact mental state, spiritual strength, and the lessons being revealed
  • Abundance Through Service: His greatest success came from helping others tell their stories and achieve their dreams
  • Identity Beyond Circumstances: True abundance comes from knowing who you are regardless of external situations
  • The Marathon Mindset: Success is a long-distance run, not a sprint - every setback is setup for a comeback
🌈 Powerful Quotes & Wisdom:
  • "Adversity introduces a man to himself - you're in the fog of war where the true leader thrives"
  • "Nothing lasts forever - this chapter might be done but a new one is beginning"
  • "The ancestors were with me for sure - it was like a movie how I remembered everything in full detail"
  • "We produce bestsellers here at Corlett Publications LLC"
💪 The Nipsey Hussle Philosophy: Chancellor lives by Nipsey's words: "The best teacher in life is your own experience. None of us know who we are until we fail. A person is defined by their reaction to any given situation. Who would you want to define you? Someone else or yourself?"
🎯 Perfect For:
  • Anyone facing major life transitions or setbacks
  • People struggling to find purpose after losing their identity
  • Athletes transitioning out of sports careers
  • Anyone interested in turning trauma into triumph
  • Aspiring authors and entrepreneurs
  • Those seeking practical wisdom on resilience and manifestation
📞 Connect with Chancellor:
  • Google: "Chancellor K Jackson" for complete access to all platforms
  • Books: Available on Amazon, including "Fourteen Days in Beijing" and "The Power of Becoming"
  • Services: Author coaching, courses, and publishing support through Corlett Publications LLC
  • Social Media: All platforms accessible through Google search
🔥 Episode Highlights:
  • The moment three Beijing police officers knocked on his door
  • How he remembered every detail of his 14-day experience without pen or paper
  • The friend who created his first book outline in his phone's notes app
  • Why he'd consider returning to China if the right opportunity arose
  • His definition of himself: "A leader, natural born leader, a goat, God amongst men"
🌟 The Ban Update: Chancellor's 5-year ban from China ended in 2024, and while he wouldn't go out of his way to return, he's open to opportunities - and would definitely document it for more great content!
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🌟 Key Takeaway: "Every setback contains the seeds of your greatest comeback. When you take full accountability for your choices, maintain your mental and spiritual strength, and trust that your experiences are preparing you for your purpose, you can transform any challenge into a platform for abundance and service to others."
This episode proves that sometimes our biggest mistakes become our greatest gifts, and that true abundance comes not from avoiding adversity, but from alchemizing it into wisdom, purpose, and service to others.

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Welcome to the Season and Self Love Podcast. I am your host, Namibanks, and I am thrilled to have you joined me on this transformative journey. You see, every day we dive into a powerful conversation about self discovery, healing and empowerment. This podcast is brought to you by ax Naomi and Elevate Me Self Discovery, where we believe that loving yourself is the first step to living a fulfilling life. You can expect insightful discussions, practical tips, and inspiring stories. Plus were occasionally welcome special guests who will share their unique perspectives on self love and personal growth. So get comfy, grab your favorite beverage, and let's embark on this journey together. Because it's time to embrace the beautiful person that you are. So let's elevate our lives one episode of time. Now, let's get started, all right, Noddy from you, Welcome back to the Season and Stuff Podcast. I'm your host now I'm Banks, and this month we're diving deep into the theme of gratitude and abundance, not just as a practice, but as a mindset in a way of being well. Today's guest is someone whose story is truly a masterclass and resilience transformation and turning pain into purpose. He is an author, a speaker, entrepreneur, and a coach who has took on one of the most challenging experiences of his life and he turned it into. A platform for empowerment. But before we bring this amazing guest to the stage, let's take a coup breaker, right A Shagurty got his number, Banks said on this season and Stuff of Love podcast, and we'll be right back. Washington wells into two focuses on healing. Always for me, if I look good, then I feel good. If I feel good, then I share the good. If I share the good, then I celebrate the good. If I celebrate the good, then I live the good. So I can be paid to be migrative, but I have to learn the good to be the good. So what does it take to be the greatest. It's as simple as a free fifteen minute consultation. Be kind to yourself, and you'll always Hey, it's your girl. You got it now me, Banks, make sure you tune in every three Thursday. Night at NAOMIDG. You have podcast where we. Talk about everything you love, sex, relationship, culture differences, and so much more by bridging the gap between them all. And we even talk about the special clubday. You need to stop by mean dot com as well as. The METG three. We have some amazing guests that come fro You'll never know. Just make sure you. Tune me at Thursday ninety six pm cent of time. Go to ask Naoma dot com un tell a ninety All right, my beautiful people, well, welcome back. Welcome back, I write my beautiful people, please help me welcome Chancellor K. Jackson. He's an author of Fourteen Days in Beijing, a man who went from being the pain in China to becoming a life for others through his words and wisdom. How you doing, Chancellor? Are you doing? Naomi? Blessings a balance to you, Hey, blessings a balance to everyone. That's too the need right now. Big shout out to the viewers, man, y'all, to realm V peace. Thank you, thank you. I can't wait to get into your story. But before we do that, let's just ground ourselves so we can really feel the fullness of this whole conversation. All right, So my listeners, you know what we have to do. We have to close our eyes for a moment, right Now just get comfortable in. Your position as we just guide it through this moment. All right, close your eyes if you can, and take a deep breath, then hold it for a moment. Now exil slowly. I want you to visualize a warm golden light that's surrounding you, and I want you to feel it settling in your chest, radiating peace, strength and gratitude. Now, as you can continue to breathe, I want you to affirm silently to yourself, I am grateful for this journey. I welcome abundance into my life. I'm breathing gratitude. Thanks sim. And when you expel, I want you to breathe out tension. Now gently bring yourself back to this present moment. All right, Chancellor again, welcome and if you are new here to the Season and Self Love podcast, it's something we do every day Monday through Fridays, just to help ground us real quick before we get into the topic in hand. All right, So let's start from the beginning. Tell us a little bit about. Your upbringing and what life looked like before everything had changed. Yeah, so, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, had a great childhood and played football vast majority of my life. I didn't started playing till eighth grade, but that was a huge component to the overall development of who I am and just a part of my identity. I played all throughout high school. I got to play at the next level. I played four years down at stetsy University, where I got my bachelor's bachelor's degree in Communication and Media Studies. After I graduated from Stetson, landed my first job teaching English and kids in China. So moved to China fresh fresh, fresh out of college. I was supposed to do a year, only ended only ended up doing six months before things went left and I was arrested and served for teen days in the Beijing penitentiary. Once I got out, I was immediately deported from the country. Came back to America, back at Square, went all over again, and just had to rEFInd myself and continue to work in education. Fell into coaching football and started writing my first book, fourteen. And after I published that, it was just. It took off on from there. It was just it was just on from there. I hear you, you know your experience. First of all, it sounded like it was great in the beginning, but then all of a sudden it just got so intense. So this is my question, when you were in that moment. I want to know when you were in. That moment sitting there, Let's say day day two. I ain't eve wanna talk about day one. Let's go to day two. How do you. Feel when you were in day two city in that prison? What was your thought pattern? Then? Religious trying to make sense of how this thing from the work, Like, I don't know. Nothing has been explained to me as far as how this process works, what my specific charges. Are, how long I'm going to be here, what are the rules of jail? Uh? Nobody knows I'm in here and right now only foreigner in itself for fourteen other Chinese men, none of which I can speak to. So it's just pretty much just the unknown. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. What's gonna take place? Or how long? Or how to think for the playoff? You know what I'm saying? What all I'm so, it's just I guess. You say, a little bit of anxiety, but curiousness at the same curiosity at the same time, and but most importantly accountable. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I definitely was accountable because It's like I constantly knew what I was doing, and I knew the repercussions from my decision making. So now things have hit the fan and here we are, we ended up in this situation. I can't really get upset with nobody but myself, Like, right, you know what I'm saying, I gotta take this to the chain, havever. It's fill the play out. I knew. I was like, I don't know what I'm gonna have to endure, but I know when it's all said and done, my mental still gonna be attacked, my spirits still gonna be attacked. I'm still gonna be me. It's gonna be a trial of mind for sure. Yeah, yeah, you know that's something that we talk about. I hear about the mindset, but also we talking about the choices and decisions that we make in life. You know, sometimes the things that we do, sometimes people want to try to shame us or whatever it is. But for me, I said, we need to embrace. Every action, every choice, and decision that we made in life because it truly builds who we are in our character. Just knowing that you were in that prison for fourteen days, when I'm looking at you right now. I said, that was a moment that you were told to be still because you were moving under line on where you were supposed to be, you know what I mean. And so in that process of you sitting there and I can't imagine, and please, I don't want to assume, but I'm just going to say, as you sitting in there in that room, there was so many download, so many message that was coming to you across in that very room. And then you were able once you left there, you were able to begin to write that experience from and let me say this from a heeled place. Does that make sense? Oh? Yeah, it's definitely hitting it right in my head. Yeah, it's definitely. I didn't even catch all of the signs and messages for shadows that I received. It wasn't until out of wrote the book. And now I'm editing the book. Oh man, that went clean over man, oh man, that went clean over my hand. It was giving me signs the whole time. I was just and so in the moment, you know, I mean, it was like, yeah, it was crazy. I was like, okay, yeah, the ancestors they were with me for sure, for sure, and just my ability to I didn't It wasn't like I had pen and paper or anything like that. When I was in there, all I had was a plastic bowl and the plastic spoon. So I had literally nothing to keep track of what was going on day by day. So once I started writing the book, it really surprised me how I was able to remember everything is such full detail, such full detail from the conversations I had, like everything, it was powerful. It was like a movie. Huh. It was like a movie. Yeah, literally, yeah, it. Was like a movie. So tell us about writing that fourteen day in Beijing. How how did gratitude help you to transform that trauma into something just so powerful empowering. Yeah, so like I knew. I mean, of course, like I'm going through this because my decision maker, But I felt like it was bigger than that, Like you know what I mean, It's something really supposed to take away from his experience, but most important, I was. Supposed to do something with it. Yeah. Now, once I got back to America, of course, a lot of people, a lot of people one ain't even know I even moved to China, so know, they thought I was They thought a year had already passed like a But it's been a year already. Well you're back, man, it's a crazy time to be flying. Like, bro, it's only been six months. But it just lets me know people living there own lies there in their own world, so they not really paying attention fully what's going on, but just informing these select few of what just took place in why I'm back in America. I'm talking about y'all's dropped, like undivided attention. Mine's blown. You know what I'm saying, Like people looking at me different. It's like, Okay, I got something on my hands. Half about sharing his story to the masters, I don't know, but I figured it out. And one day I was kicking it with one of my good partners, DeMarco Reddins. He was a traditionally published author before we graduated high school in twenty fourteen. So he hey, brother, you ain't think about writing a book about the experience. I was like, well, that's a good idea. I don't even know where to start. That's a good idea. He took it even further, took my phone from me, went to my note section and left me an outline, and I just started the outline by me doing that. I called a feel for how I wanted to go about writing the story, so moved it from my phone to a Google doc so I could type it up. And it took me about four months to get the story written and then just spending that six months and ready for publishing. Nice. Nice, you know on one of my notes here, just that experience alone, and I can remember what was the basketball player that was overseen Brittany, Yeah, Brittany, you know her and knowing just sitting in fear, and I know, even though it was only fourteen days for you that was in Beijing, but also just being away from you know, from home, from everybody like that. Now coming back home, was there any type of bitterness towards you know, the country that had just kicked you out, that ported you out, or was there anything like, you know, like like I could have I should have, I would have could have should have? Oh yeah, for sure. I mean I was beating myself up as soon as the cups got put on. I was like, man, see, I was hard on myself right then and there because I knew it was over. It like this entire journey is over, and I wasn't ready for it to be over. That's the biggest thing. I feel like if I start something, I like to see it all the way through. So if I'm supposed to do a year, I want to do my full year, you know what I mean? And I knew after a whole year in chime my bra, ain't no telling who I would be where I'm gonna be mentally, physically, spiritually, you know what I'm saying, the whole nine so, and it ain't no ten what other opportunities somebody have opened presented themselves after doing that full year out there as well? So it was definitely like a bittersweet. Just because it's like, man, I was having so much fun and joined the experience and they then came to screeching. Screeching stuff. But at the end of the day, I also know that nothing lasts forever and all things come to it and eventually, and that the a marathon continues most important, like this chapter might be done, but a new one is beginning. So exactly exactly, So let's talk about gratitude. It's easy to feel, you know, grateful when things are good, but how do we assess the feeling when life is hard. When you came back home, what was that like for you? Just even getting back into just even into life. And I know you said your friend has said, man, you need to, you know, write a book about this. But what was those emotions going into that? You know it? Really? When I got back, my biggest thing, my biggest concern is like, Okay, how do I get my money from the bank in China pack into my possession? Like that's my biggest thing, because like I was, I was pressing that, like when they was take me to my apartment to pack up the rest of myself, say hey, make can we stopped by a bank bruh so I can get the rest of my bread out. I get that, then I'm good. But we just weren't able to We ain't have enough time to do that. And it was ATMs in the airport. But I can only pull out like so much money per transaction I had to set there. I would have had to sat there and did about eight nine, probably ten transactions just to get you know what I'm saying, my bread out, and we just ain't had the time for it. So that's my biggest I got to figure out how to get this bread back. That's first and foremost. Also I was going through a breakup that like my whole world came crashing around that time and got arrested. I lost my job and got kicked at this country and got banned from this country, and now I'm losing my girl the same time. It's like, it's not it was just it was a low, low, low period. But just being around my boys, my partners and good friends, being around loved ones definitely helped keep me motivated and driven. I spent a lot of time in the gym. To me, I was spending hours and hours days on days in the gym, So just pouring that love back into myself. And then once I got into coaching football, now it's like, okay, now it's bigger than just me, you know what I mean. It's got other people that's depending upon me, and I got to develop these kids on top of that. So yeah, it was it was a process definitely once I got back, but I was up for and I knew that everything was going to work out. Yeah, it's gotta cross this bridge, you know what I'm saying. It's just one step at a time. Yeah. Now, with with your experience even with football, but also your experience with what you went through when you were in Beijing, because I really wrong. I want to talk about the book The Fourteenth Days of Beijing. What have you? How have you applied that to your coaching style now with the the young men that you work with now, Just. An aspect of just pushing through adversity. Adversity is something that everybody is going to face in life. And these boys playing, trying to play, trying to chase his football dream. You're gonna face adversity, face adversity during training lifting weights, or you're out running in this hot sun. You're gonna face adversity during the game. You know what I'm saying. We might be on a down, just a losing streak right now during the season. You know I'm saying, this is another form of adversity. Or you might get hurt, get injured. You know what I'm saying. You're to face some type of adversity playing this game, and adversity introduces a man to himself. M So just being able to see things through and push through when times get hard. Just seeing how much bagball you got, how much character? What's your true character like? You know what I'm saying, during the father wards where the true leader thrives, see what you really made of. The show for the show. Yeah, nice, that was nice. So let me ask you this, have you is that? Is this your only book that you've published, or have you publis other books? I published more since then. So fourteen Days dropped in twenty twenty. Here we are twenty twenty five, and we're six books in total. Four of those books I've wrote. The other two I didn't write, but I just helped the authors google writing process and helped them publish it as well. But yeah, we six books in. I have two romance novels in addition to Fourteen Days. And I also just dropped a self help book in April titled The Power of Becoming Seven Pillars of Growth and Empowerment. And that's pretty much a book full of quotes and insights centered around seven core themes love, discernment, success, happiness, adversity, healing, and confidence. And just through the pages, you'll learn how to re evolutionize your happiness, amplify your confidence, move with an unshakable sense of self worth, shake limiting beliefs, nurture healthy relationships. You know what I'm saying, Like it's a dope breathe for sure, for sure. And we had successful lunch with that one as well, fourteen Days Beijing. It was my best seller. Of course, that has done numbers since it dropped, and it's still is the most popular story by demand today. But we did have successful Lunch with the Power of Comment as well that went. It led the charts in two different genres. Fourteen days I don't hit number one in multiple genres, you know what I'm saying over fifteen. So but yeah, that's where we're at with it now. And a big shout out to the other two authors that I've worked with, Anthony McKinney and Tanisa Sadler. Not only was I able to help them through the writing and publishing up their books, but their books went number one as well. You know what I'm saying in multiple genres. So, Tanisa, she was fifteen years old when she wrote the story, sixteen years old when she published it, and not only did she goes number one, she you have the number one spot for like nine straight days. So stop playing. Wow, amazing, we're talking about adults. We're talking about teenager children's that you have reached back to and grabbed them as happened, allowing them to tell their story and be just creative that's that's that's some good stuff there. Chancellor, appreciate it. Yeah. So actually, everything that you've been through, it has definitely had not gone and banged, because honestly, if you had not gone through those fourteen days in that Beijing prison, then. You wouldn't be living in your purpose. Thanksully, Yeah, as. Truly, truly, you know, I love how you you're building your brand. How has those challenges served as a foundation for your abundance? Just honestly, just be believing in myself again and refining that passion that football wants, you know what I'm saying. Because football was first little first passion. I put everything I had into perfecting that and trying to take it as far as I can. Like I said, I ain't start playing football till eighth grade. I'm from Georgia. Anybody that knows about down South Georgia football, it's serious. Most casts being plays they was four and five. I was late to the game by at least a decade, so I had catching up to do from a physical standpoint as well as a mental standpoint, just learning the game of football. But even though I started late, I still was able to go d one. But that's because I through my own shure, will and efforts and energy of putting it for this sport, That's why it was able to I was able to make that happen. It also manifested it as well. I used to say. It countlessly and effortlessly when I was a freshman high school, Like, but I don't care about nemer for what y'all got going on. But I'm trying to go D one. That's all I care about. I just want to go D one. And literally we made that happen. So when it fast to when now football is gone? M h chance, who who are you? What's next? What's next? Like? What do you enjoy doing? B Like? What are you good at? You know what I'm saying. I got to re identify myself all over again. This is this ain't an easy pier to swallow, but I was up for the challenge. At the same time, It's like identified and embodied the student athlete, the football player for a good amount of time, and I did it to the fullest. And now it's like, Okay, I gotta take all that energy and apply it to something else. I just find football, and I'm like, it's gonna be a journey to figure that out. But I'm up for the challenge. And it took all of that going to China, get mocked up the whole. No, just be where we are right here right now. So well, that's good even with football being a part of your foundation because it taught you a lot. It taught you discipline, it gave you, you know, the framework on how to make all of this, you know, come to light to even you know, it's so many different positions in football, and even though you might train for this one position, that next year you. Come around, you might be doing a whole nother position. Right, So, even in that mindset are going in that kind of helped. You for life. And I don't know if a lot of people on the outside of sports look at it that way. You understand what I'm saying that sports actually do help you for your life. Your life changes in your life growing. I myself played basketball, so I played every position in basketball, you know what I'm saying, which actually helps you to you know, kind of turn or reinvent yourself or you know, knowing that you are multi fascinate at what you do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. So for our listeners out there, that's going through a tough time. Maybe they feel stuck or lost or you know, overlooked. What would you say to them? Right now? A quote automatically comes to mind by Nipsey Hustle, and the quote is long winded, running through this life like it was mine, detent, but sending every goal high, one thousand purpose to the path to my own destruction or success. But what is mistake without the lesson? You see? The best teaching life is your own experience. And none of us know who we are till we fail. Persons defined by their reactions to any given situation. Well, who would you want to define you? Someone else or yourself? What have you choose to do? And get your heart to it? Stay strong? Nice, that's a nice one. That's a real nice one. It'll hit deep because I felt it. I felt it, and you know why I felt it is because I'm just going through an amazing transformation for myself. I'm having a surgery done that I just got to explain my rest and plants removed. And so I've had that over twenty years of my life, more than over twenty years of a lot. But also I've headed throughout my whole entire career. You know, so that is what made me my money, that made me, you know, famous, all of those things. So now it's like now I have to find why I found it. But just going through the process of having to find out who you are without certain things that you've had in your life. So again, like I said, that's like reinventing yourself or better yet making. A full. A full circle around into your natural being. I have this conversation with my my therapist here that's on our show, and one question that he asked me, he said, taking them out, what would that do for you? And I said, and thought about it for a second, I said, what it would do? It would make me hold meaning that I'm very spiritual grounded and very spiritual connected. And I knew there was something that was missing for myself. By being whole, by being able to tell my story, by being able to be in this progress, we got. The season of self love. How can I truly talk about being the season of self love when I have these implants in my body and I'm not loving and embracing myself in fullness, but also it's disconnecting me to my spiritual core of it because I have a foreign object inside of my body. That's of a choice. It's not something that's keep me alive. It's of a choice, you know. And so in that case, I said, you know what, imagine what I feel like once I take those out, because I'm not at a hundred. I'm always sick. But once I take things out and the wisdom and everything spiritual and everything that I get from my experience in life, I'll be at one hundred times a hundred. You know what I'm saying. You know, so even piggyback or your quote from this hustle, it's like, now I used to be a for trot. I no longer am a sprinter. I run a maratha, I am a long distance runner. Yeah, so I I I definitely That's why I said, I really loved that. And I wasn't even a nipsey hustle fed. I really didn't really. Get into, you know, a lot of his things and teachings until probably after he passed away, because that's it was just in your face. But I'm kind of glad that I am a little bit older than you. So I kind of like was like, wow, this is this was a deep brother. I kind of understand where he was coming from. You know from what. He's where he was speaking and saying, and kind of took it for some of the things that I do in my life, you know. Moving forward, all right, So, you know what, tell me a little bit more about your book, because we didn't really get into it. I want to be nosy and I want to say, what did you do to get put in jail? But so it's four nineteen, I'm finna get ready to hear it's the day off of me. I'm gonn getting ready to head to this little team building event my company's hosting. Every month, they host a list of like five or six different events that you can people can sign up for, and that's the way for you to of course meet other people within the company network. You know what I'm saying. Just find a community out there in China and stuff like that. So I was gonna be meeting some colleagues and friends up there, and I always gonna be doing customized in Chinese fans. I was like, Okay, this seemed like a cool little little thing to do. I'm like, I'm a pre game before I go, though. So I'm in an apartment, I'm drinking some Chinese wand cools, listening to music, smoking a little cannabis, vibing out, enjoying myself. I get done, get dressed and shot. I got everything I need be for. I walk out the door and. Hear a knock. Guests are unfamiliar and I'm just curious to see who it is. I look through the people and there's to three opers from the Beijing Police. I instantly got spooked. You know what I'm saying, like, oh what they doing here? Scram put everything up, open the door. They come in question me about drugs. I'm here playing food like I don't know what they're talking about. Fast forward a little bit. Another officer enters the apartment with something in his hand and they communicate to me that I need to pinto this cup. So it's a drug test right there on the spot, I said, oh, yeah, it's over with. It's over with. Yeah, So due to drug test results came back instantly. Now the cups is on me. All fours of communication seas exists from this point moving forward. Bounce around from one precinct to another precinct before I'm taken to the jail, warm house and once I get there, unlocked up twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, fifteen minutes of one sale, nine with the beds, three soups a day, and all I had was a plastic bowl and a plastic spool. Wow. So they do not play there, No, not at all. Wow. Wait, so let me answer this. Did you know? Don't you know? Did you know that you were not supposed to be smoking weed? I was fully aware that that was the first thing they like we was going through, explained all of that, you know what I'm saying, and me just so gullible. I just moving like in being an American, I'm like, man getting locked up in China, that's not like a crazy story. Oh well, you know what I'm saying. I ain't any think much of it after that, and the. Yeah, so whoa, And I guess what I'm thinking, you know, because here in America, you know, they slap your hand in and move you along. Okay, move you along. They was like, hell no, we're about to get it out about it. And I'm still a slap on the wrist, cause it's like, if I didn't write this book, nobody wouldn't know this happen to me. It didn't follow, It's not on my record. They don't follow me nowhere like, oh it don't like literally if I didn't, if I don't, if it wasn't up to me sharing it, But nobody even noticed I went through anything like that for sure. Wow. So to me, can you go back to China? Can you even go back there? I was placed on a five year band, so my band ended last year, So technically I am like, I can't go back and visit China if I want to? Would I go back? I would't. I probably won't go out of my way. But if in it itself again, for sure, most definitely, and I will record, I would document it this time. That's great content for the book. So you're saying that, so. Yeah, yeah, So my next question to you is what what what can the listeners get out of reading your book? Entertainment as well as enlightenment, knowledge of a different culture. And then there's also other cultures within that story as well, with Brazilians and Chinese folks, Russians, you know what I'm saying. So you you learn about a bunch of different cultures, you know what I'm saying, while we underneath the same roof patience, resilience, gratitude, faith. Yeah, it's a lot that it's a lot that one can take away from fortunate mission, and you also get some get some good laughs in there, like just I'm gonna certain say it. So I have a natural sense of humor. I got a great so even my style of writing, like it would be moments I'm just being myself. It's like, okay, you're you'll find yourself laughing in this serious moment, even though it's I'm saying it's probably not a good moment to be laughing at. But I'm more than like it was probably chunkling myself when I was actually going through. So yeah, okay, So this is my last question to you. What is the meaning? What is your meaning of Chancellor Jackson? Leader? Natural one leader, a goat god amongst men, a breath of fresh air. And infinite wisdom, entrance and calmness. Nice, nice, Nice, Well, this was a really good and quick interview here. Yes, I appreciate you for having me, Yes. No problem again, Thank you so much for you just just sharing your heart and your wisdom and just your whole story. This is a this I'm smiling because I'm imagining you when you look through. That people hole and you saw those three officers did you say, Mama. Yeah, all right, So let my listeners know where can they find you? Where? Where can you find your work, your bug, everything that you have to offer, Go ahead and let it go with. The best search enginry. We have Google, Google Chancellor k Jackson. Everything you need will pop up from my social media accounts, my books which are available on Amazon, as well as my website. My website will. Pull up all the podcast interviews I've done, will pull up everything you need. Is one stop shot is Google Chancellor Kay Jackson. Any my aspiring authors out there getting in touch with me. I have services, courses, ebooks, I got a bunch of things lock and loaded for you. You know what I'm saying. So we can turn your book into a bestseller. Yeah, man, y'all tap in with me, just do it. Might have to tap in with you. I might have to tap in with you myself. So we produce best sellers here at Collect Publications. Let us see. So I know that's right, I know that's right. I write my beautiful people, this is it has been a really good, a good and fun show. I didn't know if it was gonna be this fun. I was looking at. Your reviews, I was like, oh wow, this is gonna be a deep one. And it was deep, but we kind of have fun with it. It kind of I guess you're used to not talking about your story now, so it kind. Of rolls off your tongue. Yeah, all right, that beautiful people. Y'all go follow Chancellor right now, grab his books and connect with him because his energy is amazing. And next week we are diving into from Scarcity to play Manifesting Abundance for life, where we explore on. How from limiting beliefs and to open your heart to receive more. Again, thank you all for just joining us here on the Season and Self Love and have an amazing, amazing day, have a good one. Thank you for joining us on this journey of discovering and empowerment here at the Season and Self Love Podcast. Remember, embracing self love is a continuous journey and we're so glad to have you love us. So if you enjoy today's episode, please leave us a review, and don't forget to join our community on Facebook at Season and Self Love connect with like minded individuals who are also on their self love journey. Now, if you have. 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