@@davekogut4053 Absolutely! I’m a first generation American and proud of it. After traveling to a few different countries and living overseas for a few years, I know that we have it really good here.
I literally mow the grass of a black man who is a multi millionaire. He's offended by the idea that people honestly believe he isn't able to be what he is due to the color of his skin. And there are millions of people just like him who were accountable for themselves and made good choices. Its not about black or white, its about dedication and hard work. Thanks for always preaching the truth brother.
One of my customers has a zl1 and a bmw i8. Nicest guy ever he doesnt look down on me for mowing his lawn and I dont envy him or hate him for it. Now his wife is a different story she does not like us at all. I grew up with nothing, in the highest crime city in America. In one of the poorest areas of it. My dad left when I was 9 by 11 years old I was in and out of childrens homes and juvenile facilities, until I was 17 and joined the US Army so I could jump out of planes and blow stuff up(my reason for joining) and look at me know my own small business, 2 amazing children, a wife that puts up with my BS and a youtube channel with over 5,000 subscribers. Life is good, all without help from anyone.
I couldn't have said it better myself brother, dedication and lots of hard work and anyone can be anything they want and have anything they want but unfortunately their all just lazy and worthless and they think everything should just be given to them without doing anything but I know that when someone gives me something it's good and all but you won't ever have that sense of pride in yourself for actually wanting something and going out and working your ass off to get what you want which instills you with pride and satisfaction and self worth.
@@TAM2031006 The funny thing is, when most people actually get caught, it's VERY rarely their first time to do something. It might be their first time to get in trouble, but rarely their first time actually breaking the law. Then they go into victim mode because the law cracks down on them. I have had a run in with the law and they came down on me like a ton of bricks. At first I wanted to feel like a victim, but then I thought about all the stuff I got away with throughout my life, and in reality, I probably got off light for all the things I never had to answer for.
I was an unsupported, minimum wage earning single dad for 18 years, and I know exactly what you're taking about. Even during the worst of times, I felt privileged to live in a country where I knew things would only get better if I worked for it, and things did get better. Today, both my sons are contributing members of society, live in nice homes, and earn a lot more than I do. That single fact alone makes me proud.
I recently hit rock bottom, 33 years old father of 2 small children and lost everything, lost my apartment, lost a good job and my fiance and moved back into my elderly parents house because of poor life decisions that I made...I ran up debt over $10,000 and work my ass off now 6-7 days a week just to pay because of your motivational videos ACAL...I thank you from the bottom of my heart because I'm proud to be an American and don't blame anyone for my shortcomings and for my shitty decisions. They're mine and I made them and I have to face it like a man. Thank you ACAL
Chin up bro. Shit happens, but in a year from now everything will be different. Some of the best advice I ever got is simple...you are the asshole in charge of your own fucked up destiny. It stuck. Well, that and never buy a bicycle from a fat guy.... but whatever. You have the power to change your life, and only you can do it. Once we realize these simple mantras it becomes easy. No self pity, no handouts, just honest hard work. Integrity. Honesty. Confidence. Motivation. Shit happens, fine. Move on. You're doing that. Just a bump in the road. And your children will not only thank you, they will learn from you and become good humans as a byproduct. Win win, brother. Adapt and overcome
The truth hurts fam Speak them facts White privilege don't exist today And this coming from a young black man growing in the Detroit neighborhood my first friend was a white kid name bubba the coolest kid I ever meet he moved from Tennessee to Detroit 1996 he never said or did any racist it was like that with most of my white friends 98% of em was some of the cool people I ever met I appreciate you speaking your truth about this subject fam🔥🙏🙌😎
I'm Lebanese American. I was raised in Lebanon. We barely had 4 hours of electricity a day, we used to run out of water at times. Everything was so expensive. Now it's even worse. I used to work my butt off to get paid 700$ a month. We came to the US 6 years ago. My brothers and I all had jobs until my younger brother lost his job recently because of the pandemic. We have a beautiful house. We have 3 cars. We have everything we could have asked for and more. I'm grateful and thankful that I got to call this country my home. I think some people should go live in other countries before they decide to hate on the US.
That makes you a true American all these people out here expecting there life to be handed to them are just shitty people but people like you that came from nothing and came here to take the opportunity and become something that’s American
You are one hell of a man Adam! It would be awesome to sit down with you and just have a real conversation. Tell it like it is bro! Best part is you remember where you came from which makes you a real person!
I was 16 looking at 5 years at Folsom, felony gun charge. A judge said if I get my diploma in CA Youth Authority, he would get me in the Marine Corps instead of prison. Best decision I ever made!!!
Good shit. I did some time in jail a few years back.. got out, squared my ass away. 6 years later and I haven’t had so much as a parking ticket. You can always start over and make things right, don’t ever give up over a mistake.
Hell yeah! Congratulations, that's some awesome shit. That's turning it around in a big way. I don't know you, but I'm proud of you and you should be proud of yourself. You'll do great things in life
Heartwrenching True Stories are by far the realist that hits home! Im a full-time single Father. So i know the hurt inside when your son says Dad this aint normal. You walk out of the house that day determined to hustle harder than you ever have!!! Hats off to you from one Calhoun to another Calhoun!!!
I've seen kids with good work ethic and adults with bad and the reverse is true. The difference is the generations before mine could shame bad parenting and now it's wrong to tell people they are lazy and lack any work ethic. We live in a time where you can lose your livelihood for stating a fact that isn't agreed with. The world is breeding weakness and there's a reason for it guarantee it.
I'm a mom of 4 kids, my oldest is 16 and working. I've told all my kids I love you and will always help. However you need to also work and save money .. I also told them I will pay half toward you 1st car.. you have to pay the rest. I grew up with work for what you want. Nothing in life is free.
bro, this is some inspirational shit for real..I grew up in the hood and trailer parks and got pregnant when I was 15 ....now im a wonderful mother and a recovering drug addict/felon my son is 13 years old now and he's always believed in me and we fucking made it! we have our own place and I have a wonderful husband and 2 cars and my own home ..not because I had anything handed to me ..but because of hard work and changing my lifestyle for my son so we could be in a different environment ..working 7 days a week at a factory STILL till this day and its amazing! Its hard..but its possible with the right motivation and adam, this video WILL INSPIRE PEOPLE ..thanks
That is inspiring. I also became a mom at 15 and 16. Grew up in the hood. Everything against me and I made to spite all those that said I couldn't. You're an amazing person.
OMG ADAM, you brought tears to my eyes with this one dude!!! I love you for this, I can't even tell you how much I loved hearing these words from you!!!! Our country needs to hear these words right now!!! God bless you Adam and thanks to your son for being willing to fight for this country!!! God bless America 🇺🇲
Powerful words! I've been struggling for years because of my bad decisions and addictions. Now I am clean and sober and yes I am still struggling but I got this because I got heart and I want better than sleeping in a tent in the woods. Thanks for the pep talk! Everyone needs a cheerleader. Anything is possible!
No I haven't. I don't have that luxury but would love to. I struggling every day and I really don't even have what I need let alone money for extras. My husband lost his job because he had to have knee surgery and he can't work so it's all on me. You can trust me but I don't know if I would ever use it.
That's it! Adversity builds character. These kids today, the ones who bitch about everything offending them, are the poster children for white privilege. Adversity to them is losing cell service while they're at their ANTIFA demonstration.
Might build character, but not community. Personal responsibility and self reliance builds character and confidence. People have to have to opportunity to fail, and fail, and overcome. Take the stitches, the cuts and bruises... Just don't quit.... Sometimes you neeed a break, but life is hard.. Ask a dead person..
My mom was also a single mother like Adam my father left never came back hasn’t spoken to me in I think at this point he hasn’t spoken to me in 10 years maybe 15 years now but that’s besides the point my mother worked her ass off to make sure that I am the decent kind gentle amazing man that I am today all of who I am is because of my mother and I would say to all young men if you still have your mother in your life cherish the absolute life out of that woman because you only get one mother so treat her like a queen.
And this is what I would wish every single young black man or young man would understand if you have a good work ethic and you can make life better for yourself do so
Adam, you are the absolute epitome of the American Dream 🇺🇸 struggle, hardship, dealing with whatever the world threw at you and making it work for y’all. You are a hero and I’m so proud my son looks up to you.
black, white, hispanic, etc. we all have our story and struggles even born as Americans. It’s what you do with the opportunity when it presents itself. Adam my brother, you took your life back and hit the grind and made a life for you and your son! Most people I know just bitch about life and stay stuck in the mud! Your an inspiration Calhoun!
Dude, I totally have something in my eyes right now…this touches home. Thanks Adam. This is by far the best video you’ve shared. David, Wayne and Melissa: we love and miss you, mom!
Man you have pushed me through some really fucked times with your music. Wish there was a way that I could spit my story out to you but all good... Keep up the excellent work buck, what you do inspires others to keep pushing through whatever is kicking them in the balls. You ever want to hunt the Texas hillsides let me know we have deer, turkey, and hog. Stay real brother, stay safe, #respect #brotherhood
Well I wouldn't say if you're born in the U.S. that you're automatically privileged. It's either you get fucked or you don't and even then you're still going to get fucked. Ain't no privileged position going to prison like Adam went through, ain't no privileged position not being qualified in getting healthcare, ain't no privileged position coming back home from an unnecessary war without a leg even and then left to the street. Only if you're born with a silver platter and some connections because that's how it works here!
@Logan Wolbert its a work ethic issue, as well, im 25 and canadian but we have the same entitled people over here, i remember being 15, living in a party house going to school from Wednesday to Sunday 10 hours a day at a bird seed farm as co op making student wage just to go back to school monday and Tuesday to hear my pears bitch about having to work 3 hours every few days at kfc while there life was ruined cause there parents didnt get them that new iPhone or w.e., ten years later these people still live with there parents talking about they've been slited by the world, WORK ETHIC AND SELF BELIEF GOES A LONG WAY if the majority of north America had that, we would all be alot better off, now i say north American cause thats ware im from, i know nothing about other places so it would not be right to speak on something i know nothing about.
Well said my friend, more people need to hear this! I was born poor and had to work harder than a slave!!! These young people of today have a sense of entitlement and believe the world owes them a living! They wouldn't have made it in my world !!!! I'm not black but I'm white, but I wasn't priveledged, I had to work twice as hard to have less than other's around me !!! That ain't no shit either! That's why I cringe and my temper gets riled up when I hear that word "white priveledge", all the thing's they're teaching these kid's today is pure bullshit and they know it is! It's all part of the left wing radical democrat's agenda and political view's and those responsible for pushing this hatred into the heart's of our young people should be locked away in a cell with the child molester's for attempting to cause harm to their young mind's !!! Politician's need to be held responsible for all the lie's they're propogating and the people in the media pushing their agenda and only reporting content that they want you to hear and NOT THE TRUTH, they need to be put in the same cell as well so they can't create hatred and division amongst the public with their "divide and conquer" tactic's, THEY CREATE HATRED AND RACISM WHERE THERE ONCE WAS NONE AND IT'S GONNA DESTROY OUR COUNTRY IF WE DON'T STOP THEM !!!!
I just dont like him, and for some reason he popped up in my recommended. Not in a basement, in a nice house with my girl..some people just like this dudes bitchfit about everything
@@Bable012 bitch fit? He told us how he came to be where he is in life. Hes 40 or 50 years old and came a long way. I'm retarded for Gods sake and I'm going through trade school to give me and my soon to be wife a better life. I may not rap, but i can build shit if necessary
@@joetot5466 damn right most people want to just be left the fuck alone but if you fuck around they will be sure that you find out. A dementia patient was the only crash test dummy they could get to be there patsy in stealing the election.
Amen Brother! I remember my first shitty duplex! Tack paper on the walls, milk crates and boards for the entertainment center, a van bench seat is our couch! These struggles keep us real and humble ❤️🙏 Thank you for sharing your stories and making us know that we are all just people trying….
“I didn’t give up”. The most important phrase in today’s world (in my opinion). Life’s hard for some harder for others. That 4 word phrase can and will take you (anyone) places. Thanks for the vids.
Nothing but facts being spoken here. My black a$$ loves you brotha, thanks for spreading the word of American privilege, and nothing else. God bless you.
VERY WELL SAID, Mr. Adam!!! Thank you again Ms. Margie, bc you are a true woman that stood beside your man and helped him keep fighting the good fight and telling him that he’s got this!! That’s what us women do for our amazing men bc we see the leader in them!! We see their potential!! Also, there is NO WHITE PRIVILEGE HERE EITHER! Much love to all!
Ty Adam, this motivated the shit out of me. Imma get out this small town start a business and work my ass off. I'll give a update next year. Ty seriously
Real talk! Best thing I've heard in a long time literally brought tears to my eyes. Just like you and many others I'm working my ass off to give my daughter a much better life.
Thank you Mr. Calhoun! People are lucky if they take ownership of their own life, blaming a system, or a color, or political party is only giving the power over your life or destiny to something or someone else. I was raised "Life is what you make of it..." and while they were divorced my whole life with both parents. Maybe that is the definition of growing up with privilege.
Adversity builds character, and youre the perfect example Mr Calhoun. You broke the bad cycle, and raised your son to where he wont make the same bad decisions that you made as a youth. My grandpa used to tell me before I learned how to read and write: "Everyone makes mistakes son, its LEARNING from those mistakes and righting your path that will give you a good life" Not wiser words than from a man with a 4th grade education. Mad respect for you Adam, love your channel brother!
I'm willing to work the hardest I've ever worked before. I'm on my way to the Marine Corps and I want to have a super successful life. With my Irish, black, Filipino, and Hispanic Heritage no one thinks I can do anything until I prove them wrong. Everyone calls me a racist slave owner cause my skin is white but I love everyone that deserves it. Being a person in America is the best ever.
Most of us who became Marines. Walked in pissed off ready to prove everyone wrong. You're making a great decision. It won't be easy. You'll second guess yourself a often. But once you earn that title. And you will earn it. You'll know what it takes. To do more with less in any situation. Good luck. Hopefully you're successful in joining our brotherhood. Semper Fi.👊🏻
Heinz 57 probably didn't get much credit either. No great dish was made with 1 ingredient. Your lineage doesn't matter, YOU do. Who you are, your values, your work ethic. You got it. You will be an out fucking standing Marine. Limits are applied by self. Remember that. No one else in this world can put limits on you but you.
Mike is his neighbor, and no he would not memorialize some random nosy asshole on his own tombstone. Would you? As for the shirt, if he sees a potential market for it then probably so. Or he might possibly do it just to say "Fuck You Mike" a little bit louder. ✌️
Right when you said "By God's Grace.." It made 100% sense. I don't need to detail what my life was like, but proof is in the pudding enough that every morning I open my eyes, I praise God because its immeasurable how blessed I am.
I felt this man. Came from a similar home. We had our struggles every damned day. But we all made it out better than we coulve ever imagined. Were all raising our children now to break the cycle of alcoholism/drug addiction/poverty that we were raised in and around. And it just takes the will and motivation to change what you aren't happy with
Hello Adam. I have to say you are inspiring to many. I am blessed to be American privileged ive been using that term myself lately. I just love you and your story, your music and Upchurch lol. Im 58 and my daughter is a huge fan. Her and I have struggled our share from our own bad decisions and from other. But we found our way thru and we thrive. We love our God our country our music family and Trump. Keep doing what u do. This country needs you. If you run im a YES. God bless
Wow man....absolutely priceless. My best friend just lost his 21 year old son, this is straight motivation for us both. Its truth, anything is possible with hard work and determination. No matter the circumstances or what hand you are dealt. Keep your head up CP!!!! Thank you ACAL, you're a genuine soul my friend
Amen! I broke the cycle I came from to make sure my girls had a home to live in and food on the table. I never gave up even though I struggled because their father rarely came around and only paid child support when he wanted! But we made it. They are both grown and married
So inspiring. I moved from my little town in central Illinois to live in Chicago. I moved here to get clean. I have 6 months and 20 days sober. And work a minimum wage job busting my ass to make it, but I will. Just so cool to hear parts of your story from someone with similar views as me. Thank you for this. I needed this today. Just stumbled onto your channel.
My mom was a stripper. She had friends that used to kiss me when i was 9, when i used to visit her. Lucky my mom left when i was three, and i only visited her some times. I am happy my dad raised me. I have 2 sisters and a brother. My older sister stayed with my father till she was in her late teens. Then she moved in with his second wife that divorced my father. The two younger siblings was raised by my real stripper mother. Later in my older sisters early 20s she moved to live with our stripper mother. When my dad married the second wife she was always trying to kill herself. She was a good mother, but a bit crazy trying to kill herself. When i was 10 my dad married a third women. She was a bad drug addict. Me and my older sister was always finding her drug shots in the trash. My dad put me, my older sister and my little brother into a military school. I was in that military school from age 11 to age 14. My dad took all three of us out to the place his third wife was from, Alabama. We was from Indiana. Its was a culture shock. But i fit in with the country Alabama people pretty fast. I loved playing out in the country. I started working when i was 12 in the military school childrens home. When the other kids was playing, I was making money. Mowing grass, and delivering news papers. After i left the home i was working in the summer when i was not in school. My sister left to live with the second step mother. My brother started robbing houses, so my dad sent my brother to our first real mother. The third wife had already left before my dad took us out of the home. I started working on farms cutting flowers, weeding around watermelons, and sorting potato's. I started buying my own cloths and gas for the motorcycle i had. When i was in the tenth grade my dad lost his job, so i quit school to work, or i was going to starve. He lost the house he was buying. So he moved in with his third wife. So i had no place to go. Lucky i made friends with a Native American boy in school. We used to hang out in the woods and explore. He showed me some caves on the side of the mountains we lived on. So i decided to move into one of the caves. I lived in the caves at night, and worked during the day. I was making $17 a day. It was good enough to survive. My brother came to visit when i was around 20 years old. My brother asked me to hang out with one of his friends he knew who lived in Alabama he wanted to visit. My brother started messing with his friend when he was driving, and he accident drove off the mountain. When the car was flipping, i fell out the back window that got smashed out. The back of the car landed on me and broke 8 of my ribs, and collapsed one of my lungs. I was able to go home in a few days. I was in the news paper because they had to air lift me in a helicopter. My only time getting to ride in a helicopter and i was not awake, Damn. I did try and wake up when i was laying on the ground, but i passed back out. I do remember three guys standing around me for the short time i woke up. The next time i woke up i was in the hospital. The guys sister was standing over me looking at me. She asked me if i was ok , ahahahahahah. Funny thing to ask. So a few weeks go by and i am out working again. When i was out working at a glass shop i started working at, My brother stole my motorcycle and wrecked it. He didn't tell me he wrecked it. So i went out to ride my motorcycle and the front end was bent, and caused me to wreck. I broke my arm, both collar bones, smashed my hand and cut the end of one of my fingers off, and broke a finger. I was in the hospital for 3 months. When i got out and went back to the cave, all my stuff was stolen. I didn't have much. Was a camp stove, a few pots and pans, a few cloths, and a hatchet. Lucky my hatchet was still on the motorcycle in a back pack i kept tied to the back to carry some stuff. So now i have nothing but a wrecked motorcycle and a hatchet, and the hospital cloths they gave me, because they had to cut the cloths i was wearing off me. My brother stole my motorcycle again, and this time blew up the engine. When i tried to start it, oil was pouring out of the tail pipes. My brother destroyed my baby, and my only way to get around and work. So i met up with my dad and he asked me if i wanted to move back to Indiana. I said, Might as well, nothing is going on here. So i bought a few cloths with what money i had , and left back to Indiana. I moved into my moms basement and slept on a sleeping bag. I found a job in a week. The people was laughing at me at work because my cloths was old used cloths. I was walking three hours a day to work, and three hours a day back home every day. The second week i bought a bicycle, and then it only took me 45 minutes to ride to and back from work. I bought my own food. I paid my mother $50 a week to sleep in her basement. And no, it was not a finished basement. It was a block basement with a dirt floor. But better then the cave i was in. I was making $160 a week. I felt like i was rich. One day when i was at work somebody stole most of my stuff out of my moms basement. My older sister tried to take my hatchet, one of the things they didn't steal. But i confronted her and took my hatchet back. Then i found a house to buy, when i was out hanging with my mother. I left my mothers house and started making payments. Now i live in the old house i bought, grow a garden and fix the house up little by little. My next step is to buy another house out in the country and sell the house i live in. I am a country guy, and i need nature. But i survived all the bad things that happened, and i am stronger for it. One of the biggest things i think i did for myself I never started smoking, drinking or doing drugs. Because i always felt that would wast the money i needed to survive in a healthy life. My younger sister is dead. By the people she hung around. The other two don't work, and are drug addicts. I did spend much money on them thinking i could save them. It just enabled them to stay drug addicts while not having to work. The best thing i can do is live my life. And let them find their way. I struggled enough, i don't need to struggle anymore because they don't want to try and better themselves. They all live have lived on welfare most of their lives. All the things i went through, i never decided to be on welfare. I got a job and worked till i had the things i needed to live. ;)
You're are an amazing creation. A testament of human perseverance. A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but because of its persistence. Many joys and blessings to you my fellow human.
I know what you mean. Once when I was young the cable went out. I was devastated. I was literally about to die. But I kept pushing, and when I woke up in the morning...it was back on. But man that night still gives me nightmares. So we're pretty much the same
Man thanks for being real and truthful about your past!!!! I was homeless at the end of 2015 with a wife and two kids living in a 6X10 bedroom at my uncle’s, because of my decisions. Gave my heart to God and went to work. Three kids now and just bought our first home in July. Thanks be to God!!!
As a father of three young boys I needed this today man you have no idea I had some really dark days lately and I just keep trying to put 1 foot in front of the other keep marching forward
Sooo true man! I was raised by a single mom as well, never knew my dad, lived in a one bedroom apartment with no car, just mom and I. I go back to that apartment at least once a year to remind myself of where i came from, to keep myself humble and hungry. It doesn't matter where you start, it only matters where you finish.
Tons of respect. You are a true hero. We all make huge mistakes in our life and your metal in life is how you respond to those mistakes. Adam is a HUGE EXAMPLE of responding the RIGHT WAY!!!!
It's never too late. You keep crawling, scratching and fighting. You will make it out. Know how i know? You made a decision that you won't be in that hole forever. The only one who can change your situation is you, and i believe you will. "Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a hard one." I couldn't come up with something so profound, Bruce Lee said that. But i remember it every day. If you're still fighting at 60, you have that strength and you will win that fight. Your generation was instilled with the strongest fighting spirit ever, and you're 1000 times the fighter today's snowflakes are. When you dig a hole it's with a backhoe, but you gotta fill it up with a spade. You will though, i know it.
@@jyoung2393 thanks my brother , I went to work one day in Aug. of 2003 , ended up having surgery on my neck from an work related accident . 5 surgeries later With no relief I decided to try to live with the pain ,and it’s been tough ! 4 or 5 days a week can’t get out of bed but by god I’m alive 🙏🇺🇸💕
@@mrbakerskatz you keep pushing, brother. Hopefully they will find an answer for your pain. Medical technology has increased so much since 03, chiropractic care and alternative medicine has made some fantastic breakthroughs as well. I wish you the best and hope you can find a way to live a pain free life. I work with a gentleman who has MS, it's excruciating for him. He can only stand about half the day before he has to resort to his motorized wheelchair. He's in his late 50s, used to be a drill sergeant in the army. You know who doesn't miss a day of work? He doesn't. And he'll work circles around my 20 somethings employees. That's one story in a dozen of millions. He's determined to beat ms. Having been in the army myself, i know he's a fighter. Sometimes i call him hotwheels or meals on wheels at lunch, even saw him sweeping one day and called him roomba. Funny thing is, it's not an insult. He wants to be treated like a normal person because he is just that, a regular ass normal person. Don't let any disability define you. Your disability isn't who you are. I promise, you are an inspiration to someone. Being in my mid 30s and working a labor intensive job, i have days that i don't want to, days that i want to give up and try again tomorrow. I hurt, I'm in pain, I've spent almost 20 years beating the hell outta my body and i need a break... then i see Rick. If he can do it with ms, i can do it with my problems. You are most likely someone who is an inspiration for someone else, and you are an inspiration for me. I won't keep trying if you won't!
@@jyoung2393 Thanks so much for your kind words ! I’m sure you know how that helps ! I didn’t want any of this but better me than you ! And I do mean that ! The lord will never give you more than you can handle !
@@mrbakerskatz that is correct. God will never bestow upon you something you can't handle. I don't see it as a test, more as a testament. It's a testament of faith, and you are showing great faith, my friend. You are truly an inspiration. Keep your head up, no pun intended, lol. This physical life is but a vapor, it's here one minute and gone the next... but in this life you are your Brothers keeper. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers, you keep those less fortunate than us in yours. Every day above ground is a good day. It's a chance to make a difference in someone's life, just as you have in mine.
I currently live in my car and have bills that I’m not sure how I’ll pay them. Yes I’m whole but Gods watching out for me and I’m working my ass off to make it myself. Thank you so much for the inspiration Adam. It means the WORLD to me brother 🤘🏼🇺🇸✝️
@@Anthony-eg7pw I did for about two weeks and I've decided to join the army, currently working out and studying for the ASVAB so I can make something with my life. Cant wait to see how I can serve my country!
I’ve struggled for years. But I’m finally in a good place but found myself fighting everyday again. This. This I needed. Thank you Brotha. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for sharing your story and music because there’s Billions you help everyday.
You went from being an ex con, to becoming successful and raising a beautiful American soldier. As a veteran myself, I thank you and your son for his service. Without parents like you, we wouldn't have the men and women that we do in the military.
Used to sleep in the same bed with my dad. Water was shut off not heat no electricity. Cold ass winters with space heaters. Lost our cabin. That was 5 years ago. My mom tried to take everything from my pops. Worked so hard to get out of the ditch we were in. 15 now and started my own business made 30 grand this summer doing lawn care. Boats snowmobiles trucks. Your videos make me think about how my life was when I was younger and you make me feel like I’m not alone thanks for sharing your story man
Great job, man. I say man, not young man because I believe you have earned that title. Don't forget where you came from and keep doing what you're doing. The only person who can hold you back is you. It's the same person who can hold you accountable and the same person who can become great. I'm sure you make your father proud. We need more folks like you to keep this American dream going
Thank you for this I have to work my ass off my whole adult life to provide for my children when I was 19 shortly after I found out I was pregnant with my second child I got a factory job and was able to create a nice life for myself and my children. Needless to say I've been at the same Job for 16 years. My husband and myself are currently saving for a large peice of property God is good and has seen my though some really rough shit over the years but one things for sure I dont have any quit in me.
Yea adam my life has been riddled with trouble, addiction, being a felon and all the struggles that come with that, depression, anxiety, poor decisions, and doing time in prison myself. Im 33 years old and i finally got my shit together. Im gonna start a youtube channel soon to tell my story to help others get ahead the way i did it. Its not a smooth road and im not perfect by any means but helping others will help me to stay focused! Your story sounds like mine with a few different twists but nevertheless i still struggle to stay ahead and alwayz will. Without struggle there will be no progress 💯
This brought tears to my eyes. My sons 12, me and his ma have been in and out of rehabs. We’ve been separated after 10 years of marriage 5 years now. Mom is in right now. I’m back to work as a union sheet metal worker. Mom is getting clean. I am getting my life together and so is she. I’m about to propose and me and my girl have our first baby on the way. My son and my daughter have woken me up from a deep dark place and I couldn’t have done it without them. Much love Adam Calhoun.
Wrong it is earned brother. You can call it rented if your say careless and to lazy to bust your butt. It’s not going to be handed to you. And 99% of the time the kids that have it all given to them that never have hard times loose it all.
Not only am I privileged as an American, I have never been oppressed. Period. 🇺🇸
Great perspective! My grandparents came to America for opportunities. We struggled, but we prospered. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@davekogut4053 Absolutely! I’m a first generation American and proud of it. After traveling to a few different countries and living overseas for a few years, I know that we have it really good here.
Just saying I was 69 on the like chart.
Rite on we are all privileged...
I livedin switzerland, but we moved to the states and i frickin love my rights here
I literally mow the grass of a black man who is a multi millionaire. He's offended by the idea that people honestly believe he isn't able to be what he is due to the color of his skin. And there are millions of people just like him who were accountable for themselves and made good choices. Its not about black or white, its about dedication and hard work. Thanks for always preaching the truth brother.
One of my customers has a zl1 and a bmw i8.
Nicest guy ever he doesnt look down on me for mowing his lawn and I dont envy him or hate him for it.
Now his wife is a different story she does not like us at all.
I grew up with nothing, in the highest crime city in America. In one of the poorest areas of it.
My dad left when I was 9 by 11 years old I was in and out of childrens homes and juvenile facilities, until I was 17 and joined the US Army so I could jump out of planes and blow stuff up(my reason for joining) and look at me know my own small business, 2 amazing children, a wife that puts up with my BS and a youtube channel with over 5,000 subscribers.
Life is good, all without help from anyone.
I couldn't have said it better myself brother, dedication and lots of hard work and anyone can be anything they want and have anything they want but unfortunately their all just lazy and worthless and they think everything should just be given to them without doing anything but I know that when someone gives me something it's good and all but you won't ever have that sense of pride in yourself for actually wanting something and going out and working your ass off to get what you want which instills you with pride and satisfaction and self worth.
❤ AMEN 🎉🎉
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼in my family we don’t see color we see dumb & dumber & stupidity over all
Excalty
"It's about breaking the cycle and not using where you came form as a f*** excuse" - man,
are those prophetic words.
It’s true, but some people just can’t catch a break. Or they get seriously fucked the first time they mess up.
@@TAM2031006 true
@@TAM2031006 The funny thing is, when most people actually get caught, it's VERY rarely their first time to do something. It might be their first time to get in trouble, but rarely their first time actually breaking the law. Then they go into victim mode because the law cracks down on them. I have had a run in with the law and they came down on me like a ton of bricks. At first I wanted to feel like a victim, but then I thought about all the stuff I got away with throughout my life, and in reality, I probably got off light for all the things I never had to answer for.
I was an unsupported, minimum wage earning single dad for 18 years, and I know exactly what you're taking about. Even during the worst of times, I felt privileged to live in a country where I knew things would only get better if I worked for it, and things did get better. Today, both my sons are contributing members of society, live in nice homes, and earn a lot more than I do. That single fact alone makes me proud.
Definition of "The American Dream"
I recently hit rock bottom, 33 years old father of 2 small children and lost everything, lost my apartment, lost a good job and my fiance and moved back into my elderly parents house because of poor life decisions that I made...I ran up debt over $10,000 and work my ass off now 6-7 days a week just to pay because of your motivational videos ACAL...I thank you from the bottom of my heart because I'm proud to be an American and don't blame anyone for my shortcomings and for my shitty decisions. They're mine and I made them and I have to face it like a man. Thank you ACAL
@UCLUjmFR9f47SWevhO22mRvg no other choice...I've never been a quitter just one day at a time
Keep your head up and keep slayin those hours and show your kids that you can make mistakes but its what you do after that matters
I've been there brother. Keep digging, you'll be fine. Victory is guaranteed if you refuse to quit.
@@Thatguy-vf4ie thanks bro
Chin up bro. Shit happens, but in a year from now everything will be different. Some of the best advice I ever got is simple...you are the asshole in charge of your own fucked up destiny. It stuck. Well, that and never buy a bicycle from a fat guy.... but whatever. You have the power to change your life, and only you can do it. Once we realize these simple mantras it becomes easy. No self pity, no handouts, just honest hard work. Integrity. Honesty. Confidence. Motivation. Shit happens, fine. Move on. You're doing that. Just a bump in the road. And your children will not only thank you, they will learn from you and become good humans as a byproduct. Win win, brother. Adapt and overcome
The truth hurts fam
Speak them facts
White privilege don't exist today
And this coming from a young black man growing in the Detroit neighborhood my first friend was a white kid name bubba the coolest kid I ever meet he moved from Tennessee to Detroit 1996 he never said or did any racist it was like that with most of my white friends 98% of em was some of the cool people I ever met I appreciate you speaking your truth about this subject fam🔥🙏🙌😎
Real shit. We’re all people man.
313 man speaking facts
Respect man.
Tennessee born and raised man most ppl here are good ppl except the meth heads
Yo much respect and ya def representing the 313.
The casual "F*ck you, Mike" gets me everytime lol.
This guy is just like me; he speaks truthfully and gets hate for it. God bless you, brother. You're using your platform for good.
Way to stay humble bruh. 👍🏼
@@Anthony-eg7pw Turd.
Actually he mistakes perspective for perception.,
Same here!
Oh what would the world look like if EVERY SINGLE PERSON HELD THEIR OWN SELF ACCOUNTABLE PERIOD💯💯💯💯💯
We used to talk about personal character now they teach poor me🤨
I'm Lebanese American. I was raised in Lebanon. We barely had 4 hours of electricity a day, we used to run out of water at times. Everything was so expensive. Now it's even worse. I used to work my butt off to get paid 700$ a month. We came to the US 6 years ago. My brothers and I all had jobs until my younger brother lost his job recently because of the pandemic. We have a beautiful house. We have 3 cars. We have everything we could have asked for and more. I'm grateful and thankful that I got to call this country my home. I think some people should go live in other countries before they decide to hate on the US.
Nice!
god bless man, i'm lebanese too and i didn't expect other lebanese people to watch adam calhoun but i guess i was wrong lol.
Glad you're here. Glad you could make it and love it here enough to want to call the US home.
Hey, thanks for being here.. We need MORE AMERICANS just like YOU...
That makes you a true American all these people out here expecting there life to be handed to them are just shitty people but people like you that came from nothing and came here to take the opportunity and become something that’s American
I, as a white man, have the privilege of getting up every morning and going to work to support my family... yep, I have white privilege!!!
America was built by whites and all these interiors are fucking us over
You are one hell of a man Adam! It would be awesome to sit down with you and just have a real conversation. Tell it like it is bro! Best part is you remember where you came from which makes you a real person!
I was 16 looking at 5 years at Folsom, felony gun charge. A judge said if I get my diploma in CA Youth Authority, he would get me in the Marine Corps instead of prison. Best decision I ever made!!!
I did 2years for a drunk Agg. assault guess whose been sober since 2010?
Someone with their head held high that's for damn sure.
Keep up the good fight Brother.
Good shit. I did some time in jail a few years back.. got out, squared my ass away. 6 years later and I haven’t had so much as a parking ticket. You can always start over and make things right, don’t ever give up over a mistake.
Hell yeah! Congratulations, that's some awesome shit. That's turning it around in a big way. I don't know you, but I'm proud of you and you should be proud of yourself. You'll do great things in life
How nice is it to have people say good job and thank you.you deserve it
Heartwrenching True Stories are by far the realist that hits home! Im a full-time single Father. So i know the hurt inside when your son says Dad this aint normal. You walk out of the house that day determined to hustle harder than you ever have!!! Hats off to you from one Calhoun to another Calhoun!!!
A real man in charge of his own heart! His actions, his choices, and being a daddy! What else is there in life?
I wished more people understood how important having a good work ethic is. Kids lack that these days.
I've seen kids with good work ethic and adults with bad and the reverse is true. The difference is the generations before mine could shame bad parenting and now it's wrong to tell people they are lazy and lack any work ethic. We live in a time where you can lose your livelihood for stating a fact that isn't agreed with. The world is breeding weakness and there's a reason for it guarantee it.
I'm a mom of 4 kids, my oldest is 16 and working. I've told all my kids I love you and will always help. However you need to also work and save money .. I also told them I will pay half toward you 1st car.. you have to pay the rest. I grew up with work for what you want.
Nothing in life is free.
bro, this is some inspirational shit for real..I grew up in the hood and trailer parks and got pregnant when I was 15 ....now im a wonderful mother and a recovering drug addict/felon my son is 13 years old now and he's always believed in me and we fucking made it! we have our own place and I have a wonderful husband and 2 cars and my own home ..not because I had anything handed to me ..but because of hard work and changing my lifestyle for my son so we could be in a different environment ..working 7 days a week at a factory STILL till this day and its amazing! Its hard..but its possible with the right motivation and adam, this video WILL INSPIRE PEOPLE ..thanks
Respect.
That is inspiring. I also became a mom at 15 and 16. Grew up in the hood. Everything against me and I made to spite all those that said I couldn't.
You're an amazing person.
OMG ADAM, you brought tears to my eyes with this one dude!!! I love you for this, I can't even tell you how much I loved hearing these words from you!!!! Our country needs to hear these words right now!!! God bless you Adam and thanks to your son for being willing to fight for this country!!! God bless America 🇺🇲
Powerful words! I've been struggling for years because of my bad decisions and addictions. Now I am clean and sober and yes I am still struggling but I got this because I got heart and I want better than sleeping in a tent in the woods. Thanks for the pep talk! Everyone needs a cheerleader. Anything is possible!
No I haven't. I don't have that luxury but would love to. I struggling every day and I really don't even have what I need let alone money for extras. My husband lost his job because he had to have knee surgery and he can't work so it's all on me. You can trust me but I don't know if I would ever use it.
As a white boy born and raised in the projects of NYC I can honestly say adversity builds character. Never stop. Never settle. 💪
That's it! Adversity builds character. These kids today, the ones who bitch about everything offending them, are the poster children for white privilege. Adversity to them is losing cell service while they're at their ANTIFA demonstration.
Might build character, but not community. Personal responsibility and self reliance builds character and confidence. People have to have to opportunity to fail, and fail, and overcome. Take the stitches, the cuts and bruises... Just don't quit.... Sometimes you neeed a break, but life is hard.. Ask a dead person..
@@EnkiTwo them are some real ass words and you are right on respect that
Didn’t know I needed this pep talk; but I really did, thanks man
No shit brother you aren't lying. Time to reevaluate some things.
Spot on boys.
As a single mom I felt this so much so so so so much love will always support you 100%
My mom was also a single mother like Adam my father left never came back hasn’t spoken to me in I think at this point he hasn’t spoken to me in 10 years maybe 15 years now but that’s besides the point my mother worked her ass off to make sure that I am the decent kind gentle amazing man that I am today all of who I am is because of my mother and I would say to all young men if you still have your mother in your life cherish the absolute life out of that woman because you only get one mother so treat her like a queen.
And this is what I would wish every single young black man or young man would understand if you have a good work ethic and you can make life better for yourself do so
Adam, you are the absolute epitome of the American Dream 🇺🇸 struggle, hardship, dealing with whatever the world threw at you and making it work for y’all. You are a hero and I’m so proud my son looks up to you.
I wish the whole world could hear this. 100% truth. We all have troubles and obstacles in life. It’s how you deal with them that defines you.
They all can the more we share the more ppl will hear this message
black, white, hispanic, etc. we all have our story and struggles even born as Americans. It’s what you do with the opportunity when it presents itself. Adam my brother, you took your life back and hit the grind and made a life for you and your son! Most people I know just bitch about life and stay stuck in the mud! Your an inspiration Calhoun!
Dude, I totally have something in my eyes right now…this touches home. Thanks Adam. This is by far the best video you’ve shared.
David, Wayne and Melissa: we love and miss you, mom!
Man you have pushed me through some really fucked times with your music. Wish there was a way that I could spit my story out to you but all good... Keep up the excellent work buck, what you do inspires others to keep pushing through whatever is kicking them in the balls.
You ever want to hunt the Texas hillsides let me know we have deer, turkey, and hog.
Stay real brother, stay safe, #respect #brotherhood
Moral of the story: race dont mean jack. Your character and YOUR will mean everything. Period. Great video. Thank you
Well I wouldn't say if you're born in the U.S. that you're automatically privileged. It's either you get fucked or you don't and even then you're still going to get fucked. Ain't no privileged position going to prison like Adam went through, ain't no privileged position not being qualified in getting healthcare, ain't no privileged position coming back home from an unnecessary war without a leg even and then left to the street. Only if you're born with a silver platter and some connections because that's how it works here!
Objectively your race means stuff
Positive attitude and willingness to work. You mix those two things with time and you got something.
@@Robmancan1987 hell yeah
@Logan Wolbert its a work ethic issue, as well, im 25 and canadian but we have the same entitled people over here, i remember being 15, living in a party house going to school from Wednesday to Sunday 10 hours a day at a bird seed farm as co op making student wage just to go back to school monday and Tuesday to hear my pears bitch about having to work 3 hours every few days at kfc while there life was ruined cause there parents didnt get them that new iPhone or w.e., ten years later these people still live with there parents talking about they've been slited by the world, WORK ETHIC AND SELF BELIEF GOES A LONG WAY if the majority of north America had that, we would all be alot better off, now i say north American cause thats ware im from, i know nothing about other places so it would not be right to speak on something i know nothing about.
"In today's day and age..... no..."😂👊🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Well said my friend, more people need to hear this! I was born poor and had to work harder than a slave!!!
These young people of today have a sense of entitlement and believe the world owes them a living! They wouldn't have made it in my world !!!! I'm not black but I'm white, but I wasn't priveledged, I had to work twice as hard to have less than other's around me !!! That ain't no shit either!
That's why I cringe and my temper gets riled up when I hear that word "white priveledge", all the thing's they're teaching these kid's today is pure bullshit and they know it is! It's all part of the left wing radical democrat's agenda and political view's and those responsible for pushing this hatred into the heart's of our young people should be locked away in a cell with the child molester's for attempting to cause harm to their young mind's !!! Politician's need to be held responsible for all the lie's they're propogating and the people in the media pushing their agenda and only reporting content that they want you to hear and NOT THE TRUTH, they need to be put in the same cell as well so they can't create hatred and division amongst the public with their "divide and conquer" tactic's, THEY CREATE HATRED AND RACISM WHERE THERE ONCE WAS NONE AND IT'S GONNA DESTROY OUR COUNTRY IF WE DON'T STOP THEM !!!!
The 108 dislikes are still living in their parents house.
I just dont like him, and for some reason he popped up in my recommended. Not in a basement, in a nice house with my girl..some people just like this dudes bitchfit about everything
😂😂😂
@@Bable012 bitch fit? He told us how he came to be where he is in life. Hes 40 or 50 years old and came a long way. I'm retarded for Gods sake and I'm going through trade school to give me and my soon to be wife a better life. I may not rap, but i can build shit if necessary
General Calhoun in the upcoming revolution then after that Calhoun for president
@@joetot5466 damn right most people want to just be left the fuck alone but if you fuck around they will be sure that you find out. A dementia patient was the only crash test dummy they could get to be there patsy in stealing the election.
Calhoun & Crenshaw!
I'd follow that General and president as long as Upchurch was vice president cause there ain't a better team than those 2
@@ajfrieler9142 hell yeah fuggin!!!!
My son and I broke that cycle and he just got stationed in South Korea this video hit home
God bless him
@@sucio9325 thank you so much.
You should be so proud. Please thank him for me, for protecting our great nation. God bless
I hope that your some has safe travels and comes home making you proud man. Stay safe and keep up the positive vibes my friend
That's some of the realest I've heard...but I do listen to you on the daily, so I already know! ACal and Upchurch on shuffle all day!
Amen Brother! I remember my first shitty duplex! Tack paper on the walls, milk crates and boards for the entertainment center, a van bench seat is our couch! These struggles keep us real and humble ❤️🙏 Thank you for sharing your stories and making us know that we are all just people trying….
It's sad isn't it...., "It's always easier to blame something/somebody else, than fix the problem."
“I didn’t give up”. The most important phrase in today’s world (in my opinion). Life’s hard for some harder for others. That 4 word phrase can and will take you (anyone) places. Thanks for the vids.
Good shit bro. This is the type motivation us convicts need to hear. Thanks man
I appreciate your honesty 💯
U fuckin rock! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
Bro a grown man made a grown man cry. You’re inspirational man. You give me strength adam
You will always have a legion behind you Adam, not just American but everyone you inspired globally.
Nothing but facts being spoken here. My black a$$ loves you brotha, thanks for spreading the word of American privilege, and nothing else. God bless you.
VERY WELL SAID, Mr. Adam!!! Thank you again Ms. Margie, bc you are a true woman that stood beside your man and helped him keep fighting the good fight and telling him that he’s got this!! That’s what us women do for our amazing men bc we see the leader in them!! We see their potential!! Also, there is NO WHITE PRIVILEGE HERE EITHER! Much love to all!
Ty Adam, this motivated the shit out of me. Imma get out this small town start a business and work my ass off. I'll give a update next year. Ty seriously
i felt that man, i joined the military to get out of my town
Good luck!
Sounds great. Go out there and do it. Please let us know how it goes.
@@97stratocaster21 will do, I failed at my first one, on to the next chapter.
Real talk! Best thing I've heard in a long time literally brought tears to my eyes. Just like you and many others I'm working my ass off to give my daughter a much better life.
Thank you Mr. Calhoun! People are lucky if they take ownership of their own life, blaming a system, or a color, or political party is only giving the power over your life or destiny to something or someone else. I was raised "Life is what you make of it..." and while they were divorced my whole life with both parents. Maybe that is the definition of growing up with privilege.
Adversity builds character, and youre the perfect example Mr Calhoun. You broke the bad cycle, and raised your son to where he wont make the same bad decisions that you made as a youth. My grandpa used to tell me before I learned how to read and write: "Everyone makes mistakes son, its LEARNING from those mistakes and righting your path that will give you a good life" Not wiser words than from a man with a 4th grade education. Mad respect for you Adam, love your channel brother!
I'm willing to work the hardest I've ever worked before. I'm on my way to the Marine Corps and I want to have a super successful life. With my Irish, black, Filipino, and Hispanic Heritage no one thinks I can do anything until I prove them wrong. Everyone calls me a racist slave owner cause my skin is white but I love everyone that deserves it. Being a person in America is the best ever.
You can do anything you put your mind to do. Let your haters be your motorvators. Good luck on your journey.
Most of us who became Marines. Walked in pissed off ready to prove everyone wrong. You're making a great decision. It won't be easy. You'll second guess yourself a often. But once you earn that title. And you will earn it. You'll know what it takes. To do more with less in any situation. Good luck. Hopefully you're successful in joining our brotherhood. Semper Fi.👊🏻
Never quit.! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
KEEP up the hard work. I went in the Army it changed my life. Life is what you make it.
Heinz 57 probably didn't get much credit either. No great dish was made with 1 ingredient. Your lineage doesn't matter, YOU do. Who you are, your values, your work ethic. You got it. You will be an out fucking standing Marine. Limits are applied by self. Remember that. No one else in this world can put limits on you but you.
Being a Dad is the most important and rewarding job there is.
I Couldn't agree more saved my life! Also made me successful if not for my children i would have most likely gave up.
FACTS!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯💯💯💯💯🍻🍻⚜⚜
And for women, being a mom
@@gretals9782 Yes, of course, I agree.
@@1AXMRDR the left wants to get rid of the nuclear family and it's very sad
Thank you for sharing. It doesn't matter if you get knocked down, IT matters if you get back up.👍🏾🇺🇸.
This is so powerful. Thank you Adam. Rooting for you and love your music.
I wonder if Adam would have "F you mike" written on his gravestone.
I don't know, but he definitely needs to make some "Fu😉k you Mike!" T-shirts! I will buy one!
Sorry i might me a little late to this, but who's Mike?
Mike is his neighbor, and no he would not memorialize some random nosy asshole on his own tombstone. Would you? As for the shirt, if he sees a potential market for it then probably so. Or he might possibly do it just to say "Fuck You Mike" a little bit louder. ✌️
@@Steven-gv1ke he did!
Same
Right when you said "By God's Grace.."
It made 100% sense. I don't need to detail what my life was like, but proof is in the pudding enough that every morning I open my eyes, I praise God because its immeasurable how blessed I am.
Amen brother 👊🏻
What a fkn patriot. Much Love ACal and everything you put out brotha
I felt this man. Came from a similar home. We had our struggles every damned day. But we all made it out better than we coulve ever imagined. Were all raising our children now to break the cycle of alcoholism/drug addiction/poverty that we were raised in and around. And it just takes the will and motivation to change what you aren't happy with
Hell yes brother,real talk.Life is all about the heart and soul,morals,honor and respect. 🤙🤟🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My mom worked 2 jobs to raise my sister and I. My dad left when I was 4. My mom was the hardest working person I ever knew.
Hello Adam. I have to say you are inspiring to many. I am blessed to be American privileged ive been using that term myself lately. I just love you and your story, your music and Upchurch lol. Im 58 and my daughter is a huge fan. Her and I have struggled our share from our own bad decisions and from other. But we found our way thru and we thrive. We love our God our country our music family and Trump. Keep doing what u do. This country needs you. If you run im a YES. God bless
Wow man....absolutely priceless. My best friend just lost his 21 year old son, this is straight motivation for us both. Its truth, anything is possible with hard work and determination. No matter the circumstances or what hand you are dealt. Keep your head up CP!!!! Thank you ACAL, you're a genuine soul my friend
WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU ADAM! thank you for sharing your knowledge and helping shape our generation ❤
Damn I needed that speech man, Thank you Mr.Calhoun
Speaks truth on all levels. Love the heart and hustle and refusal of failure. Love to y'all no matter what color.
Amen! I broke the cycle I came from to make sure my girls had a home to live in and food on the table. I never gave up even though I struggled because their father rarely came around and only paid child support when he wanted! But we made it. They are both grown and married
God bless America.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours CALHOUN!!
The man, the myth, the legend, Acal
So inspiring. I moved from my little town in central Illinois to live in Chicago. I moved here to get clean. I have 6 months and 20 days sober. And work a minimum wage job busting my ass to make it, but I will. Just so cool to hear parts of your story from someone with similar views as me. Thank you for this. I needed this today. Just stumbled onto your channel.
So glad your telling people, They can do it.👍🤗and not to never ever give up on yourself.🙏
Have amazing Weekend 🤍
My mom was a stripper.
She had friends that used to kiss me when i was 9, when i used to visit her.
Lucky my mom left when i was three, and i only visited her some times.
I am happy my dad raised me.
I have 2 sisters and a brother.
My older sister stayed with my father till she was in her late teens.
Then she moved in with his second wife that divorced my father.
The two younger siblings was raised by my real stripper mother.
Later in my older sisters early 20s she moved to live with our stripper mother.
When my dad married the second wife she was always trying to kill herself.
She was a good mother, but a bit crazy trying to kill herself.
When i was 10 my dad married a third women.
She was a bad drug addict.
Me and my older sister was always finding her drug shots in the trash.
My dad put me, my older sister and my little brother into a military school.
I was in that military school from age 11 to age 14.
My dad took all three of us out to the place his third wife was from, Alabama.
We was from Indiana.
Its was a culture shock.
But i fit in with the country Alabama people pretty fast.
I loved playing out in the country.
I started working when i was 12 in the military school childrens home.
When the other kids was playing, I was making money.
Mowing grass, and delivering news papers.
After i left the home i was working in the summer when i was not in school.
My sister left to live with the second step mother.
My brother started robbing houses, so my dad sent my brother to our first real mother.
The third wife had already left before my dad took us out of the home.
I started working on farms cutting flowers, weeding around watermelons, and sorting potato's.
I started buying my own cloths and gas for the motorcycle i had.
When i was in the tenth grade my dad lost his job, so i quit school to work, or i was going to starve.
He lost the house he was buying.
So he moved in with his third wife.
So i had no place to go.
Lucky i made friends with a Native American boy in school.
We used to hang out in the woods and explore.
He showed me some caves on the side of the mountains we lived on.
So i decided to move into one of the caves.
I lived in the caves at night, and worked during the day.
I was making $17 a day.
It was good enough to survive.
My brother came to visit when i was around 20 years old.
My brother asked me to hang out with one of his friends he knew who lived in Alabama he wanted to visit.
My brother started messing with his friend when he was driving, and he accident drove off the mountain.
When the car was flipping, i fell out the back window that got smashed out.
The back of the car landed on me and broke 8 of my ribs, and collapsed one of my lungs.
I was able to go home in a few days.
I was in the news paper because they had to air lift me in a helicopter.
My only time getting to ride in a helicopter and i was not awake, Damn.
I did try and wake up when i was laying on the ground, but i passed back out.
I do remember three guys standing around me for the short time i woke up.
The next time i woke up i was in the hospital.
The guys sister was standing over me looking at me.
She asked me if i was ok , ahahahahahah.
Funny thing to ask.
So a few weeks go by and i am out working again.
When i was out working at a glass shop i started working at, My brother stole my motorcycle and wrecked it.
He didn't tell me he wrecked it.
So i went out to ride my motorcycle and the front end was bent, and caused me to wreck.
I broke my arm, both collar bones, smashed my hand and cut the end of one of my fingers off, and broke a finger.
I was in the hospital for 3 months.
When i got out and went back to the cave, all my stuff was stolen.
I didn't have much.
Was a camp stove, a few pots and pans, a few cloths, and a hatchet.
Lucky my hatchet was still on the motorcycle in a back pack i kept tied to the back to carry some stuff.
So now i have nothing but a wrecked motorcycle and a hatchet, and the hospital cloths they gave me, because they had to cut the cloths i was wearing off me.
My brother stole my motorcycle again, and this time blew up the engine.
When i tried to start it, oil was pouring out of the tail pipes.
My brother destroyed my baby, and my only way to get around and work.
So i met up with my dad and he asked me if i wanted to move back to Indiana.
I said, Might as well, nothing is going on here.
So i bought a few cloths with what money i had , and left back to Indiana.
I moved into my moms basement and slept on a sleeping bag.
I found a job in a week.
The people was laughing at me at work because my cloths was old used cloths.
I was walking three hours a day to work, and three hours a day back home every day.
The second week i bought a bicycle, and then it only took me 45 minutes to ride to and back from work.
I bought my own food.
I paid my mother $50 a week to sleep in her basement.
And no, it was not a finished basement.
It was a block basement with a dirt floor.
But better then the cave i was in.
I was making $160 a week.
I felt like i was rich.
One day when i was at work somebody stole most of my stuff out of my moms basement.
My older sister tried to take my hatchet, one of the things they didn't steal.
But i confronted her and took my hatchet back.
Then i found a house to buy, when i was out hanging with my mother.
I left my mothers house and started making payments.
Now i live in the old house i bought, grow a garden and fix the house up little by little.
My next step is to buy another house out in the country and sell the house i live in.
I am a country guy, and i need nature.
But i survived all the bad things that happened, and i am stronger for it.
One of the biggest things i think i did for myself
I never started smoking, drinking or doing drugs.
Because i always felt that would wast the money i needed to survive in a healthy life.
My younger sister is dead.
By the people she hung around.
The other two don't work, and are drug addicts.
I did spend much money on them thinking i could save them.
It just enabled them to stay drug addicts while not having to work.
The best thing i can do is live my life.
And let them find their way.
I struggled enough, i don't need to struggle anymore because they don't want to try and better themselves.
They all live have lived on welfare most of their lives.
All the things i went through, i never decided to be on welfare.
I got a job and worked till i had the things i needed to live.
;)
Next time be more specific homie...
Stay strong 💪 God bless you.
You're are an amazing creation. A testament of human perseverance.
A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.
Many joys and blessings to you my fellow human.
I know what you mean. Once when I was young the cable went out. I was devastated. I was literally about to die. But I kept pushing, and when I woke up in the morning...it was back on. But man that night still gives me nightmares. So we're pretty much the same
Stay strong brother all the hard times and pain and suffering will be well worth it in the end.
Bro your the real deal!!! I look at you as a big brother..i wish one day to meet you!!!!
Love watching your videos! So inspiring, so honest, so raw and pure. God Bless you and your family!
Man thanks for being real and truthful about your past!!!! I was homeless at the end of 2015 with a wife and two kids living in a 6X10 bedroom at my uncle’s, because of my decisions. Gave my heart to God and went to work. Three kids now and just bought our first home in July. Thanks be to God!!!
As a father of three young boys I needed this today man you have no idea I had some really dark days lately and I just keep trying to put 1 foot in front of the other keep marching forward
I needed that. Almost died in my Jeep 2 days ago. Rolled it in a ditch. I'm thankful to be here today. Keep it up brother.
Sooo true man! I was raised by a single mom as well, never knew my dad, lived in a one bedroom apartment with no car, just mom and I. I go back to that apartment at least once a year to remind myself of where i came from, to keep myself humble and hungry. It doesn't matter where you start, it only matters where you finish.
Tons of respect. You are a true hero. We all make huge mistakes in our life and your metal in life is how you respond to those mistakes. Adam is a HUGE EXAMPLE of responding the RIGHT WAY!!!!
I’m 60 now Adam and I’m still crawling out of a hole , but I’m alive brother . Great story and congratulations as well as Thank you ! 🙏
It's never too late. You keep crawling, scratching and fighting. You will make it out. Know how i know? You made a decision that you won't be in that hole forever. The only one who can change your situation is you, and i believe you will. "Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a hard one." I couldn't come up with something so profound, Bruce Lee said that. But i remember it every day. If you're still fighting at 60, you have that strength and you will win that fight. Your generation was instilled with the strongest fighting spirit ever, and you're 1000 times the fighter today's snowflakes are. When you dig a hole it's with a backhoe, but you gotta fill it up with a spade. You will though, i know it.
@@jyoung2393 thanks my brother , I went to work one day in Aug. of 2003 , ended up having surgery on my neck from an work related accident . 5 surgeries later With no relief I decided to try to live with the pain ,and it’s been tough ! 4 or 5 days a week can’t get out of bed but by god I’m alive 🙏🇺🇸💕
@@mrbakerskatz you keep pushing, brother. Hopefully they will find an answer for your pain. Medical technology has increased so much since 03, chiropractic care and alternative medicine has made some fantastic breakthroughs as well. I wish you the best and hope you can find a way to live a pain free life. I work with a gentleman who has MS, it's excruciating for him. He can only stand about half the day before he has to resort to his motorized wheelchair. He's in his late 50s, used to be a drill sergeant in the army. You know who doesn't miss a day of work? He doesn't. And he'll work circles around my 20 somethings employees. That's one story in a dozen of millions. He's determined to beat ms. Having been in the army myself, i know he's a fighter. Sometimes i call him hotwheels or meals on wheels at lunch, even saw him sweeping one day and called him roomba. Funny thing is, it's not an insult. He wants to be treated like a normal person because he is just that, a regular ass normal person. Don't let any disability define you. Your disability isn't who you are. I promise, you are an inspiration to someone. Being in my mid 30s and working a labor intensive job, i have days that i don't want to, days that i want to give up and try again tomorrow. I hurt, I'm in pain, I've spent almost 20 years beating the hell outta my body and i need a break... then i see Rick. If he can do it with ms, i can do it with my problems. You are most likely someone who is an inspiration for someone else, and you are an inspiration for me. I won't keep trying if you won't!
@@jyoung2393 Thanks so much for your kind words ! I’m sure you know how that helps ! I didn’t want any of this but better me than you ! And I do mean that ! The lord will never give you more than you can handle !
@@mrbakerskatz that is correct. God will never bestow upon you something you can't handle. I don't see it as a test, more as a testament. It's a testament of faith, and you are showing great faith, my friend. You are truly an inspiration. Keep your head up, no pun intended, lol. This physical life is but a vapor, it's here one minute and gone the next... but in this life you are your Brothers keeper. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers, you keep those less fortunate than us in yours. Every day above ground is a good day. It's a chance to make a difference in someone's life, just as you have in mine.
Dude that just makes us real mfrs love ya more “no homo 😂”
Made me teary eyed man! Love the story! Thank you for all that you do and being real!
This made me tear up... Proud of you Adam! 👊🏻
Being a dad is the best thing ive done too. Much respect my brother, i know it aint been easy👊 ☀🔥
I currently live in my car and have bills that I’m not sure how I’ll pay them. Yes I’m whole but Gods watching out for me and I’m working my ass off to make it myself. Thank you so much for the inspiration Adam. It means the WORLD to me brother 🤘🏼🇺🇸✝️
Drop the phone bill
@@Anthony-eg7pw I did for about two weeks and I've decided to join the army, currently working out and studying for the ASVAB so I can make something with my life. Cant wait to see how I can serve my country!
Love ya Brotha! Keep speaking the truth and leading by example. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!!
I’ve struggled for years. But I’m finally in a good place but found myself fighting everyday again.
This. This I needed. Thank you Brotha. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for sharing your story and music because there’s Billions you help everyday.
You went from being an ex con, to becoming successful and raising a beautiful American soldier. As a veteran myself, I thank you and your son for his service. Without parents like you, we wouldn't have the men and women that we do in the military.
Used to sleep in the same bed with my dad. Water was shut off not heat no electricity. Cold ass winters with space heaters. Lost our cabin. That was 5 years ago. My mom tried to take everything from my pops. Worked so hard to get out of the ditch we were in. 15 now and started my own business made 30 grand this summer doing lawn care. Boats snowmobiles trucks. Your videos make me think about how my life was when I was younger and you make me feel like I’m not alone thanks for sharing your story man
Great job, man. I say man, not young man because I believe you have earned that title. Don't forget where you came from and keep doing what you're doing. The only person who can hold you back is you. It's the same person who can hold you accountable and the same person who can become great. I'm sure you make your father proud. We need more folks like you to keep this American dream going
Thank you for this I have to work my ass off my whole adult life to provide for my children when I was 19 shortly after I found out I was pregnant with my second child I got a factory job and was able to create a nice life for myself and my children. Needless to say I've been at the same Job for 16 years. My husband and myself are currently saving for a large peice of property God is good and has seen my though some really rough shit over the years but one things for sure I dont have any quit in me.
I'm proud of you sir. Keep that up. For the others ignorance will put them were they should be. Thank you sir
We are Proud of you out here Adam.
Yea adam my life has been riddled with trouble, addiction, being a felon and all the struggles that come with that, depression, anxiety, poor decisions, and doing time in prison myself. Im 33 years old and i finally got my shit together. Im gonna start a youtube channel soon to tell my story to help others get ahead the way i did it. Its not a smooth road and im not perfect by any means but helping others will help me to stay focused! Your story sounds like mine with a few different twists but nevertheless i still struggle to stay ahead and alwayz will. Without struggle there will be no progress 💯
Struggle is real, u have the right attitude, Head up✌
Without struggle you can't really appreciate the good times. We spoiled Americans are proof.
Congrats Adam!! God Bless you!!
Your words speak volumes Amen AC FOR President 2024👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼u are a true real honest person!
My mom worked 2 jobs with Multiple Sclerosis. That's who I got my work ethic from. She was a badass 💜💜 Happy Thanksgiving frands
God bless your mother friend, and God bless you and your family!
This brought tears to my eyes.
My sons 12, me and his ma have been in and out of rehabs. We’ve been separated after 10 years of marriage 5 years now. Mom is in right now. I’m back to work as a union sheet metal worker. Mom is getting clean. I am getting my life together and so is she. I’m about to propose and me and my girl have our first baby on the way. My son and my daughter have woken me up from a deep dark place and I couldn’t have done it without them. Much love Adam Calhoun.
Wow!! Brother unbelievable Amen, very well spoken!!!!!
Adam ...... your a great inspiration.... keep it up
Hi FRIENDS, adam love you my man always speaking the truth and from the heart
Everyone Remember Success isn't Earned it's Rented and Rent is Due Everyday and Adam is proving that
Wrong it is earned brother. You can call it rented if your say careless and to lazy to bust your butt. It’s not going to be handed to you. And 99% of the time the kids that have it all given to them that never have hard times loose it all.
Once again! You never fail to motivate. . .thanks Adam!! Love your channel 🥰
Well said...you gotta do the work. Nothing comes to you for free.