Page 14 - January 2021: Hustle Mama Magazine

Being in the public eye is not without its consequences; how difficult is it to maintain excellent relationships (those with girlfriends/boyfriends, childhood friends, family, and significant others)? How do you handle that?
I would say, schedule it. That's the main thing I talked about and mentioned earlier—scheduling time for our family. We are talking about balancing life. When we are raising our kids, Friday night was family night; Saturday night, they could go out on a date with other people, which would be the date night with my wife.
Wednesday night, we always have dinner together even though most kids we're on the run playing different sports, project, and things, but we have a lot of family rituals built-in through our family. The idea of having a rhythm of getting together and connecting. We used to do a thing called a heart. It was a heart talk where we have an object that was shaped like a heart.
We passed it around and picked a theme to talk about at dinner that night, and then everyone is getting a turn, and if you are holding the heart, nobody could interrupt you. You talked about how you feel about that topic. Maybe what's your biggest fear? What happened this week that you wish you hadn't? What are you wanting but not getting? How do you feel as a parent? Whatever. That was very important, and we still do that sometimes when we get together. Build-in that time is essential.
Who's been the most significant influence in your life?
I would say that it's always been the people that were great impactors of social change. People like Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther king. I think it's because I know that's been my path to have a more considerable impact, not a small impact but an enormous impact. I'm attracted to people, and I admire people, and I want to learn from them about how they did that. What are their character qualities, and what are some of the things they hold off in their journey. Those are the people who inspire me.