Builder of All Things

Builder of All Things | Episode #33 | "From Mixtapes to Manuscripts" | Author’s Cut: Book Intro w/ Richie Breaux

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Welcome to the Builder of All Things Podcast—where we go beyond the pages of the book and explore into the Author’s Cut! 🔥 Join Richie Breaux and Ray Bisnar as they break down each chapter in micro-episodes, giving you the behind-the-scenes insights, deeper wisdom, and real-life applications—just like a Director’s Cut for a book.

This episode is the INTRO to the book, kicking off a 9-part micro-series that unpacks the journey from ownership to stewardship, profits to purpose, and building something that lasts.

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Speaker 2:

I've always was a fan of. Let's just start with, like hip hop, right and and music, this music. And then I'm going to talk about hip hop a little bit, because that was like the genre I fell in love with when I was young, cause I was I'm a nineties high school. I was in, you know, 94 to 98.

Speaker 1:

I was going to say hanging around with you and B like you guys have. You guys are like a bank of knowledge when it comes to rap and uh music.

Speaker 2:

It was crazy well, I think the golden era is that the right way to say it of hip-hop was like 96. I mean, are people gonna argue with that? They might, but they might not you know what I mean, like if they really know hip-hop they might be like yeah that was you know if you look at what cds released in that in that time and what was happening at that time, yeah, um, that was a, like a pivotal moment.

Speaker 2:

I was like that's my sophomore, junior year in high school, so my age too, and the pop culture and just being really into that. You know, hip-hop was big for me and what I loved about hip-hop more than anything was the artistic value it brought and creativity when it came to um album covers, yeah, the songs being having a holistic like approach to like, for example, outcast when they released aliens at aliens forgive me it, it was, you know, the concept of them being outcasted by their name, meaning you had the east and the west hip-hop groups, right, but then they're coming out of the south, so they weren't really getting the light shined on them, right, and so they released this album. That's just different.

Speaker 2:

They did like a comic book style with, you know, the old cds, you get the full cover and then the songs when you go into it all had the extraterrestrial kind of theme going on and and just that was that creative outlet for me is what I loved, and so obviously when you're growing up in that era, we all think we can rap and so we all start doing our own little rap things and creative outlets.

Speaker 2:

But what I enjoyed most was delivering a message, an overall message that you basically from the album name to the cover, to the titles of the song. You know there was a time in my life where I started really reading Christian books and so you know I didn't really read too much like before. I mean, you're like, how'd you get through school, man? I don't know, sometimes I don't know, but I didn't really have good reading comprehension. They picked that up, I think, when I was like in third or fourth grade. Put me in a resource class and try to help me because I would read and my ADD would just I'd read one sentence and I'm already thinking about playing basketball, you know afterwards, yeah, but I'm still reading.

Speaker 2:

Right, right, I don't know if you know, that's a common thing, but I'm just like reading through all the pages but I'm not even thinking about what I'm reading, and so I got to stop myself and I got to go back and reread.

Speaker 1:

And think about it at the same time.

Speaker 2:

So hard for me, yeah, so it was such a challenge really getting into something. But when my wife, tiffany's mom, started introducing me to pastors who have books, I think that was the first time I really started reading and it was like maybe it's the subject matter and my interests, yeah, but it would catch my attention and I was hungry for the knowledge at the time and I just started reading books like crazy. I was reading like John Piper, john Bevere, john no, I was going to name a whole bunch of John John the Baptist, john the Baptist, I mean. And then reading the Bible too, I mean that was always challenging for me because the King James Version is like talking, you know, for me to talk to Filipinos in Philippines, you know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, it just is a whole nother, yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's like it was, it's, it was hard for me. And so, um, you know, once I recognize there's different versions, I mean that's how I think ignorant I was to even the Bible world, I didn't realize there was like a whole bunch of different versions, you know. And so, um, yeah, just started reading the Bible. I think it was around 26, 27 when I really started reading. Isn't that crazy? Like the rest of me, I'd read like a Facebook post, or I mean I could read man, you know what I'm saying Like host. Or I mean I could read, man, you know what I'm saying, like it's just the comprehension part, like, yeah, it was just it had to have my interest and so for sure.

Speaker 1:

I mean, reading was just I wasn't a fan of it. I think I thanks, man, I can probably only read. I can count the number, uh, like on my hand, how many books I've read in terms of like fiction and stuff like that. Like you said, it just wasn't I have to be super interested in it. Um, but it's tough. But now, looking at it in hindsight, it's like, bro, like you never used to like to read, but now you have a book.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think it's a God thing, it's. You know, reading I just I fell in love with reading now when you got. So, like John Bevere, I'm a big fan of his books just because his style of writing is it's an easy read. Yeah, you know, I'm not the intellect guy who needs the big intellect book. Only when I used to rap. I used to like big words, and so Tiffany knows this. I would just be, just I'd have a dictionary and thesaurus and try to find the biggest words I could because it was always fun, right?

Speaker 2:

So, like constant competition of decisions, through my retina, my vision, the collision of all dispositions.

Speaker 1:

But I don't know what I just said it was just fun to rap like that, right? So do you remember your raps, though, like? I always think about this when I think about like rap, because you got guys that that have been in game like naz for for a long time.

Speaker 2:

You know jay-z all, because we have a name for it. It's called the Goody Sack, the Goody Set Sack. What does that mean? Like you know a sack, yeah, it's a Goody Sack, so you got all the goodies in there, yeah, and so basically it's kind of like in the mental bank. You just pick it up, yeah, you have a Goody Sack. It's just remembering the first three words and then the rest is just like a machine gun.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I always wonder I'm like dude, how do people just? You have a ton of songs. You've been in the game for a while. How can you just pick it up?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So when I started, you know, doing my hip hop with you know Jesus lyrics I used to be, I used to reach out to people but I'd have that in the goodie sack and it was more. It was more, it had more value to me to rap to you in person like we're just chilling, like spoken word. But I loved making music and all that stuff too. Um, but, uh, yeah, yeah, it's uh. Writing. Writing a book, man is uh, it. Let's just say this it took 12 years to meditate. Yeah, what I mean by that is I didn't think of writing a book 12 years ago, but this is 12 years in the making. And you know, when we started our podcast in 2021, this is our fifth year, man, I know that's cool. Well, now I know what. Yeah, you told me this is our fifth year man. I know that's this is well, now I know what.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, I um, I think in the process of those first season, that first season podcast, I felt like there was a message being bird that was there for the past, you know, 11, 12 years. And so after listening to those, I like, okay, god, you know, I want to hone in on this message you're putting on my heart, because everything that we are sharing and that's in the book is just the walk that me and Tiffany took as being business owners, but having the builder of all things with us in that process. And so what I've learned is, like people, and there are seasons where people would ask like, oh, you know, how do you do this? And that you know everybody wants to do some gem sharing, right, like, yeah, how do you do that? And so, really, yeah, there there are like business practical gems we could share and certain things, but ultimately, like it's the stream we're on and and who's with us, that's really the power source behind everything, right.

Speaker 2:

And so, you know, I just wanted to like get it on paper, man, document it, and I think me and my wife are in a season of, you know, we have our four, um, blessed with four children, who three are married, one to be married pretty soon, and 13 grandkids, and so the big word for us in this past year or so is legacy, and what are we doing to prepare to pass down to them is number one, and so that kind of, I guess, bird the idea of getting it, you know, into a book. So like, when you go look at the acknowledgements on the book. It's like, obviously God, my wife and then my kids, but my grandkids, bye.