For Episode 169 of the Wealth On Any Income podcast, Rennie Gabriel is joined by Brian T. Sebastian, a multimedia influencer with over 66 million views. Brian is the founder of Movie Reviews & More and focuses on supporting small businesses, women-owned businesses, minorities, and artists by providing them with a platform to gain exposure and recognition. The episode covers Brian’s commitment to helping those who struggle to get noticed in various industries, his support for charitable causes like St. Jude's Hospital and Dream Weaver Arts, and his efforts to empower entrepreneurs and creatives across a wide age range. Brian also shares success stories of individuals he has helped and discusses his vision of giving back to the community.
In this episode, Rennie and Brian cover:
(1:36 - 2:09) Brian expresses gratitude for being on the show and commends Rennie for his consistent efforts in producing the podcast and mentions the challenges of maintaining a live weekly show.
(2:20 - 3:04) Supporting Small Businesses and Artists: Brian talks about his focus on supporting small businesses, women-owned businesses, minorities, and artists. He emphasizes the importance of providing a platform for people who struggle to get exposure and financial support.
(3:05 - 3:27) Charity Work Mention: Rennie shares that he donates all profits from his work to veteran and animal charities, asking Brian about a cause that’s important to him.
(3:27 - 4:39) Brian mentions his support for St. Jude's Hospital for kids and the Dream Weaver Arts organization. He also discusses his connection with Elvis Presley’s family and their charitable efforts.
(4:58 - 6:00) Brian elaborates on his work with a wide age range (8 to 80 years old), including involvement in the toy industry and marching bands. He highlights the challenges smaller companies face in getting recognition.
(6:01 - 6:14) Rennie briefly mentions that Los Angeles has programs for donating and repairing instruments for schools, noting it as a rarity.
(6:14 - 7:04) Music Support: Brian talks about the support for drum and bugle corps, emphasizing the importance of providing opportunities for young and older musicians alike.
(7:19 - 8:38) Perspective on Failure: Brian explains that his failures were more about others not recognizing his vision rather than personal failure. He discusses the importance of having a chance to showcase one’s abilities and mentions his aspiration to support others, similar to Rennie’s charitable efforts.
(8:52 - 10:11) Success Stories: Brian shares stories about helping Yvette Freeman with her magazine and Bill and Sonia Mazzie with their product for port-a-potties. He highlights the importance of giving people a chance to succeed.
(10:27 - 11:07) How to Connect: Brian encourages listeners to check out his live Tuesday night shows and provides his email for further contact. He mentions the importance of being accessible while noting the need for caution as his status grows.
To learn more about Brian and get access to his weekly show visit: www.youtube.com/@moviereviewsnmore OR email: moviereviewsnmore@gmail.com
(11:18 - 11:46) Brian thanks Rennie for the opportunity and emphasizes the importance of helping others. He mentions the concept of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and the significance of persistence.
(11:47 - 12:43) Rennie offers additional resources for listeners, including his TEDx talk and a free roadmap to financial choice. He thanks the audience for tuning in and encourages them to rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast.
“I saw there was always a need for people, small business, women-owned, minorities, people in general, and they don't always have a place where they can get the word out for what they're doing… It's about helping everybody that we can, showcasing them and promoting them to the best of our ability.” Brian T. Sebastian
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[Rennie Gabriel] (0:10 - 1:35)
Hi folks, welcome to episode 169 of the Wealth On Any Income podcast. This is where we talk about money tips, techniques, attitudes, information, and provide inspiration around your business and your money. I'm your host, Rennie Gabriel.
In past episodes, we spoke about how to understand the numbers from your business, how to measure the level of pleasure based on where you spend your money, how to track your money in five to ten seconds, what determines how close you are to complete financial choice, and how to run your business without being in your business. And last time, we had multi-book financial author and film producer, Andrew Winnett. Today, we have as our guest, Brian T.
Sebastian. Brian has 66 million views and counting. He's got movie reviews and more.
It's a multimedia organization focusing on social media content and brand recognition, and just received Variety Entertainment's Best Summer Show 2024, Best Top 60 Podcast, and one of the best influencers in the world's best of lists. So Brian, you've done really well, and welcome to the Wealth On Any Income podcast.
[Brian Sebastian] (1:36 - 2:09)
Hey Rennie, I'm glad I got a chance to do this, and I hope everybody can hear me because I stepped in and out of a luncheon meeting in Tennessee, and it was one of these things where we want to talk about you, but I'm like, I was just here to support somebody. I've got a Zoom to do it, and I didn't want to miss out on it. So I'm just glad to be here, and I like what you're doing.
Congratulations. That's not easy, how many shows you've done, and I want people to realize that's not easy to do all of these shows every week because we always do a live show every week. So my hat goes off to you.
When I hear anything over a hundred, that's a lot.
[Rennie Gabriel] (2:10 - 2:19)
Thank you, Brian. I appreciate that. Well, let's talk about the work you do, and also why you do the work you're doing.
[Brian Sebastian] (2:20 - 3:04)
Well, the thing was I saw there was always a need for people, small business, women-owned, minorities, people in general, they don't always have a place where they can get the word out for what they're doing. Whether it's art galleries, film festivals, you name it, films, CDs, music, everybody's having challenges. There's a lot of money out there.
However, not everybody knows how to get it, not everybody knows where to go get it. And then a lot of people, if you're a corporation, they don't like to take chances. They like stuff that's kind of guaranteed, which is not fair to the average inventor or artist.
And that's one reason why movie reviews and more, the more part really wants to do stuff. It's about helping everybody that we can, showcasing them and promoting them to the best of our ability.
[Rennie Gabriel] (3:05 - 3:27)
Terrific. Well, thank you. Thank you, Brian.
And now, most of my listeners, and maybe you are as well, are aware that I donate 100% of the profits from the work I do supporting other people to handle money effectively. I donate to various veteran and animal charities. Tell me about a cause that's most near and dear to you and what they do.
[Brian Sebastian] (3:27 - 4:39)
Well, if I'm in Tennessee, I like St. Jude's Hospital for kids. That's always important. Elvis is one of their very first people with Danny Thomas organization.
We deal with Terry Thomas on that. Marlo's still involved with that, obviously, Phil Griffin. A lot of people like that organization because everything goes to helping those kids.
Hand in Hand, she's my southern mom, Edie Hand, Elvis Presley's cousin. She handles a lot of the stuff. Priscilla Presley is name and face, but Edie does everything.
She was the one that was making the sandwiches for Elvis. So I know a lot of her people actually would say, Brian, I want you to come to the south and I want you to meet my people. When they say that, meaning the people that they grew up with, the ones that are alive still, and I'm meeting them.
And that's why I'm here in Tennessee. And then, last but least, is the Dream Weaver Arts, Dream Weaver Arts organization. Everything that's environmentally friendly, sustainable, and net zero.
And for that, that's also including helping artists, inventors. Taking the water from the clouds, the water aspect of machines. Those individual artists who create great things that people haven't seen.
They don't always have a place to showcase. So we want to be that organization that helps them out.
[Rennie Gabriel] (4:40 - 4:56)
Terrific. Yeah. And it's also in line with the work that you do.
So it's perfect. And now, I remember you said, I guess, you work with women, influencers, authors, inventors, small businesses. I guess the age range could be from very young to very old, correct?
[Brian Sebastian] (4:58 - 6:00)
Yes, we're 8 to 80. We have the toy industry. So think of toys.
Toys start at age zero. We have that. You know, when I'm working with moms, we're working with that.
When we're working with influencers, we're working with that. Last year, the number one film, last year besides Oppenheimer, was Barbie. Where did it come from?
The toy world. So when I go to a toy convention, which I never knew I was going to be involved with, there's no press there. So I said, okay, I'll take it.
I'll showcase these products. I'll take that big company. I'll take that small company.
Most people know of Lego, but they don't know of something in a small company, that brand that's just starting out. They all need help. There's some great inventors there.
They just don't always know where to go. And then the other thing is the drum and bugle corps world. Think of marching bands.
You could start in elementary, you know, learning how to learn an instrument. But however, it still costs money to do that. They don't donate them in schools anymore. They don't. You have to pay for these things in some of the schools, which that's not right, nor is it fair.
[Rennie Gabriel] (6:01 - 6:14)
Actually, Los Angeles does have a program of providing donated instruments, repairing them, and providing them. So I know Los Angeles is big in that area, but I would say that's the rarity.
[Brian Sebastian] (6:14 - 7:04)
It is a rarity because Herb Albert, who, you know, my other Southern mom, I have two Southern moms, Lois Kinzel, she helped bring Herb Albert's art here. Well, Herb donates to Los Angeles City Commerce. You know, he gave $10 million, and good for her, which is great.
So when it comes to that, anybody who's marching a band or drum corps, you age out at 21, but you can march in an all-age corps until you're 86, if you want. So I marched in a drum and bugle corps, so a lot of my friends are in the old-age corps. I should say all-age corps.
We used to call them senior corps. So think about that. You might have marched when you were 16, 21, aged out, but you can hold that American flag.
You're still on that field. You're still with that. That's why we are the only ones in the world that actually have those ages, 8 to 81.
[Rennie Gabriel] (7:05 - 7:19)
Oh, cool. Well, now, on a personal note, this is a two-part question. I want to know what your biggest failure was, whether it was personal or business, and what insight did you gain from that, and how are you using it?
[Brian Sebastian] (7:19 - 8:38)
You know, I kept going back to that. It wasn't failures. What it was, it was people who failed to see what I was doing.
So think of it this way. Inventors create things that people have no idea what they're talking about. However, think of Steve Jobs creating a phone out of the garage.
Think of where Steve Wozniak and all those people are today. Think of what happened with Microsoft, IBM. Think of how it happened, how the toy industry started, where Barbie came from. G.I. Joe came from the same person who developed Barbie, her husband. So when you think of these things like that, not everybody can see the vision that you have. So no one's going to want to do this.
What makes you think you can get that going? Well, give me a chance. I never asked for money.
I just wanted the opportunity to showcase what I could do. I see things a different way. Just like what you do, donating.
I don't know anybody else who does that. I love the fact that you do that. We want to be able to do the same thing with Dreamweaver.
I want to be that black entrepreneur that goes out and just gives $50, $100 bills to people who need it. I want to hear their stories. Why?
Because I'm seeing all these people cross-country and they're desperate in need of certain things. Not everybody wants to take. A lot of people just need a chance and they're not getting that.
[Rennie Gabriel] (8:39 - 8:52)
Thank you. Do you have an example, a case study, a story to illustrate someone who had some idea, you were able to showcase it and what it transformed into? Yeah.
[Brian Sebastian] (8:52 - 10:11)
One is an envoy, Yvette Freeman out of Asheville, North Carolina. She had this great magazine, hard covers. It's hard to get these things going now because printing magazines are expensive.
The envoy magazine, I said, why don't you meet me in Tennessee? I don't even live in Tennessee. But the fact is she came there.
I handed 300 of her magazines out in each seat in the table. Beautiful glossy. She took all the photos.
She did spreads on the people there. Women loved it. She brought her own thing.
It cost her money to come there. But what she got out of that, people immediately wanted to be in her magazine. They immediately wanted to have headshots done from her.
She went back with a lot of friends that she never knew had she had not taken the chance. That's just one person. Another one's called the restroom kid.
Bill and Sonia Mazzie, veterans. They started the thing where you go to port-a-potties and there's never anything to use. There's not any tushy paper to use.
They created that. Not only are the firemen, policemen, hospitals using that now. We helped start that in 2017. And I met them at a gifting suite. I'm like, this is a great, great piece of information, a great product that no one knows of. Airplanes can use them. Kids need them. Senior citizens, I call them experienced seniors, could use them. That's another example.
[Rennie Gabriel] (10:12 - 10:27)
Oh, thank you, Brian. Terrific. Well, I'm going to guess my people in my listening audience are going to want to be able to get ahold of you.
Do you have a valuable free resource or something they can connect with that'll connect them to you?
[Brian Sebastian] (10:27 - 11:07)
I always tell everybody, check out our Tuesday night live shows. We're always live, never take. We are on show 100 and yeah, last night's show was 113 live shows in a row.
We always go straight through the year. You can always check us out on that or movie reviews and more M O V I E reviews. R E V I E S the letter N like Nancy Moore, movie reviews and more at gmail.com.
Or if I meet you, you know, I'm, I have no problem giving my phone number out, but you know, as you go up in status, you have to be careful now who you give your phone number out because not everybody has good intentions, but I'm easy to reach. I respond to almost everything. Terrific.
[Rennie Gabriel] (11:07 - 11:17)
Okay. Well, I'm going to put that email address in the show notes and Brian, I want to thank you for being on the wealth on any income show.
[Brian Sebastian] (11:18 - 11:46)
Hey, I have to thank you because you didn't have to take a chance. Again, you took a chance and I want to be able to help you any way that we can help you also, because that's what you're supposed to be doing. It's not jealousy when it comes to this.
It's about helping people who need a healthy hand. Some people just need to be shoved out there to do what they need to get done, but they come back and thank you later. And then some people stepped away and they're like, Oh, I think I stepped away too quick because he's, you know, he's continuing to do something without me via FOMO fear of missing out.
[Rennie Gabriel] (11:47 - 12:43)
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