Questions about Phillip Anthony Mitchell's Podcast Tour!

Hey, hey, Tony Gaston's here. Now, seen this right here floating around online and wanted to touch on this because I've spoken on this before when some of the brother some of his friends did a big event and they charged, you know, $40, $50, $60 and then like $250 for the VIP meet. and being that he is friends with them, he maybe knows the behind the scenes of the financials and was able to see that. And it's it's a couple things at play here. One of the things that I think people got to realize is people have a desire for fame and a desire for notoriety. I think every speaker wants to tour at some point in their career. I don't really foresee it about being like spreading the gospel because we have the internet. So, you really don't that's why I retired from touring and speaking in 2019 because I have YouTube. So there's no tour that I could do that could reach a million people a month like I do on YouTube. So the Lord told me, "You need to be home with your kids and stop being gone all the time cuz I was gone sometimes five days a week." And so I stopped touring in 2019. I retired and ironically 2020 the pandemic happened. So I realized then that that that was God kind of giving me an advance, a heads up to go ahead and get started and I got started in YouTube and YouTube picked up the revenue that I was making from speaking. But the thing about it is with YouTube it made more than me touring because when you tour it does cost money. You got to pay for the venue and you got to pay for everything. You got to pay for your flights, you got to pay for your car service or your rental car, you got to pay for your hotel room, all your food. Like with YouTube, you just get on here and talk. And so it is a cost to what the brother trying to do. And what I believe pastors and people like that should do is if you want to tour, make it about something that is it's almost like being wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. Like don't tour and charge a ticket for prayer service. That's where people get confused. Like make the tour about the elevation tour, the in my community that I got right what you see purpose pushers, you know, like make it about to where you still can it still can talk about God. You still talking about God. You're a Christian. So, you can't ever separate yourself from God. But when people see and they feel like you're charging for church, you're always going to be scrutinized. And that's why the Bible tells us, don't let your good be evil spoken of. And I think the thing that, and this ain't even about Philip Anthony Mitchell and just him, but this for all Christians. I just finished our call in the purpose pushers. And I told him, I said, "Listen, the reason why this isn't called, you know, like some church name, and I'm not leading with God and leading with scripture. I'm not opening up our call with prayer. I'm not closing our call with prayer. I am a Christian. I don't have to wear that on my forehead like, you know, I'm a Christian. I talk about God. I'm going use examples from the Bible, but I don't want this to be a paid community where I'm selling the gospel because you have religious nuts. You have religious freaks. You have religious fanatics. You have people who have low intelligence. You have people who have social anxiety. They have community problems. They have issues. And they will latch on to anything religious and anything about God. And when you bring God into the equation, it can be seen as a form of manipulation. like you're using God to fleece people out their money. And the way that we look at it is if God told you to do it, then God will provide. So I heard the brother say his podcast isn't supported by his church. And honestly, I think he should reconsider that because if your podcast is a form of ministry, then it's okay for your church to have to support the podcast and it be an extension of your ministry. It be an extension of the church. And it's also okay to have advertisements that are healthy advertisements. Like if you could be advertising my mentor.life, life, which is a place where people can go get life coaching or therapy, and that's a healthy thing. That could be paying your podcast thousands of dollars per episode. And that's a fair exchange. And I would say this what I would say if I was the church and if I was the brother and I am and I feel like I'm called to spread the gospel in person, I would make that my church's 10% tithe. So I would look at everything that's coming into the church and if I'm bringing in a million a month to the church then 100,000 would go to this ministry tour. So that way that 100,000 will get you through five cities and and at those places it's free for the people to come and then they can donate to the church or they can donate to the podcast if you want that to be a separate donation or they can come for free since it's ministry and since it's the gospel and you spreading the gospel. They could come for free and then let God touch their heart to be a blessing. And you will end up making more than the $60 per ticket and the $200 per VIP. And I'm And one thing, you know, the the brother Philip Anthony Mitchell, he he probably been out here, you know, working and grinding and in the shadows for some time, but I just heard of him like the last couple years. I've been viral since 2010. So, it's been 2010 to 2020, that's 10 years. 2026, that's 16 years. I've been viral for 16 years. I've toured and spoken on four continents. I toured from 2012 to 2019, every year, almost year round. And that's just my tour, not including all the engagements I'm invited to speak at of other people engagements. One thing I'll recommend to any man of God, limit access VIP meetups. It's going to be all women. I've been down that road. The spiritual warfare you're going to encounter. I I I don't I wouldn't put that on myself if I already have to encounter that every Sunday at church because I I guarantee you I never been to 2819. But I guarantee you they got some lookers in there. That probably why they have to keep them lights off. They probably got some lookers and he got to keep his wife close. But guess what? On this tour, if his wife not going on this tour and this him and his homeboy, and I'mma tell you like this right here, some of the women you going to meet, you can't ever be arrogant enough or foolish enough to think that you've met every Jezebel spirit in the flesh. It gets higher and higher and higher and higher and higher. That's why I I cut off access because it it was like I'm I'm touring. I'm doing these VIP meet and greets and my tour was the real love tour. So, it wasn't the gospel. I wasn't spreading the the the Bible. I was talking about healthy love and healthy relationships. So, it was different. I don't believe in charging for the gospel. Like, if I'm going to do a event and it's and I'm calling it spreading the gospel, I would never charge a ticket price. If I can't pay for it myself, then I'm not going to do it. that that's that's that God telling me that I ain't supposed to do it. That's me wanting to do it. If I I don't believe in charging for the gospel in no shape, form or fashion. I don't believe in that. I I believe God is a way maker. God is a provider. I believe that if God is saying, "Go on this tour, he will send a multi-millionaire to cut a check to say, "Here is a million dollar for y'all to do this tour." It's It's people out there with it. Here is a $100,000 for y'all to do two cities. And that's y'all getting paid out of there. 10 grand a city, 20 grand a city, five grand a city. He go 100k blow. I guarantee he got followers that is on the Atlanta Falcons on the Atlanta Hawks. I don't believe God want us charging anybody for the gospel because that puts a barrier between them and God. That just it just it don't make sense. That's like that's like Jesus having a ticket price to touch him and his garment. Like Jesus having a like he had venues. He had to travel. He had he had 12 people going with him. That's 12 miles to feed. He ain't had no fee. He ain't have no entry fee. So y'all have to rethink this stuff to all the Christians because and he not the only one that's trying to do this. His friends did it and I had to get on to them about that. that Acts 22 240 that Acts 242 conference the the so-called prophetist Tiffany Montgomery be doing events that's basically a church service that she charged hundreds of dollars for to get in. Y'all have to stop doing that. Even if your heart is pure, the Bible say don't let your good be evil spoken of. So when you have people like myself who do not fear you, do not envy you, do not have anything against you, wishing you all the best, hoping that you win, hoping that you when people like myself are confused, it's a problem because I am sober minded. I love the Lord. I serve the Lord. I walked with the Lord. I've been walking with the Lord since six years old. I backslid. I went to the streets. I did a lot of dirt. But even then, I ain't go too far cuz I knew the Lord was c was going to call me home. I knew the Lord was going to redeem me. And so, I wanted to be known. I I commend these Christian pastors and all of that for trying to make money outside of the church and trying to make money to put in their pocket outside of the church so that they don't have to take no exorbitant salary from the church. But you just you need to sit down and talk to somebody like myself who has done it and done it as a Christian without it being without it appearing to be selling the gospel. And so when you got every Christian speaker h feeling an uncction and a urge to come to the internet and to speak on this to warn the babies in the Lord because this what y'all have to realize is like when y'all say you spreading the gospel and you charging a ticket price, you open the floodgates. Like I believe the brother is on fire for the Lord. I don't believe his intentions are impure and but I also know a hustle. I also know a setup. I also know a parlay. I also meaning I know that a person will do free free free free for the big payday. A person will do free arena for the big payday. Like I don't just look at it as a thing of like, oh, because he does a free prayer thing where they cost them x amount of dollars, then that means he's a he he's 100% innocent and 100% pure. It's it's a the biggest scams in the world is free entry. And so that's what all of the sales events are free. All of the the publishing book publishing events are free. The crypto events are free. The real estate stuff is free. All of these type of sales courses and sales I mean sales conferences, they all free because they f to blim blam you in the back of that room. They literally tell you to get on the phone and to call and to make a transfer for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, $100,000 from your 401k to pay for this product or this service that they selling in the back of the room. and it was free to get in. And so this the thing a lot of times people will do free so that they can come back with a charge and they eat like a king because they already gave so much for free. And so even if that's not his motive, he gets lumped in with those scammers. He gets lumped in with those people. And that's why Megan Ashley and Jackie Hill Perry got lumped in with the scammers. They got put in the same category as Tiffany Montgomery because they want to charge for the gospel. They charge to make disciples. And you you could look and and we all could be guilty of it or seen as guilty of it. But I try to be very clear and and I don't charge for when you go to Tony Gaston Academy. Not one of them courses is prayer warrior course, disciple course. None of the courses is religious. It's all me teaching you business, me teaching you systems, me teaching you formulas, me teaching you how I wrote a pitch to get on Oprah, how I write pitches to get speaking engagements. Entrepreneurship with purpose. And purpose is not religious because you could be serving the homeless and you ain't even talking about God, but just what you doing is showing the love of God, but you not selling the gospel. And that's what people have to realize. So I'm I'm coming at this thing with a sober mind, with no hate, with no jealousy. I You couldn't pay me to trade places with that brother Philip Anthony Mitchell. I'm going be honest with you. I'm scared for the brother. I'm scared for the brother. Because when you got that many eyes on you, I can't do nothing but pray for the brother. When you got that many eyes on you, you got that much clout on your name, you got that many people cheering you on, the fall from that the fall from that grace, the fall from that top. If you if you slip up at all, that fall going to be so far, so long that all I do is pray for men and women that's in that type of light. But I have a job to do to bring clarity to the people who may be being prayed on or to the people who are hanging in the wings, hanging in the balance and are confused by it. Here's what I would say. If you believe that the brother's heart is pure, which I believe is a it's a part in a portion that is pure. We all are flawed to a degree at some point and we all have a past and our past could always be in us and always haunt us. So if I'm not mistaken, I think he did some prison time. So the devil going that whatever you did prison time for or whatever that don't just go away. You you ain't just redeemed once and redeemed for all. The devil going to try you. He going he going to tempt you. He going to tap on that shoulder and he going to bring different demons, different different levels. Every level you go up, it's a new devil. Every level it's a new demon. And it gets more and more enticing. More and more enticing. And It just as men, we're just not sitting around all the time by ourselves just having deep religious conversations. We men, so we it's easy to fall into a conversation about how bad this chick was, about how beautiful, about how big her booty was, about how it's easy to fall into that stuff. Easy. And I'm telling you, as a 100% faithful man, as a relationship coach, me and my homeboy, he was he was my O lineman in college. He we played football together. And after that seminar, after every seminar, it'll be a conversation will come up. Or if it was me, him, and somebody else, it always a conversation will come up. Be like, "Boy, you seen that one lady in in that blue dress? Woo. That's the real that nobody gonna tell you. I'm a man I know. And I don't look at I don't look at no man higher than me. I don't look at no man like, "Oh, he just such amazing, perfect, never tempted man. He is just blind. He don't see nothing." No, that conversation going to come up and I wouldn't even bring up the conversation. It' be other people bringing the conversation and I'll be like, "Yeah, bro. I seen a boy. I had a boy. I had to get her around me fast, boy. Cuz boy, she tried to get too close, boy. Oh, boy. And she had that perfume on, boy. Hey, boy. Listen. And boy, listen. Boy, she tried to rub that booty on me. Boy, I felt that Buddha all up on the side of my hip. I said, look at this woman think she's slick. They want to stand up there and talk. And then that's the VIP meet and greet. And I'mma tell you, man, after that, after them seminars, you feel so heavy. You could feel like the spirit's on you. You could feel the spirits on you. It's like and you strong as you want to be. You prayed up. You praying all day and it's literally like you was in a 15 round fight with Satan himself, but he hitting you with baddies with IG models. Yeah. And you trying to you trying to beat it. You you bobbing and we you trying to get off yourself and he just Oh, you got past that one. Here go another one. And it's just like booty booty booty booty, breast, face, smile, lips, and it just all that. And then and see the thing about it is a lot of women masturbate. A lot of women got 10 inch 12 inch dildos, the rolls, the bullet. And so they working they they working they spirit up. Christian women. Christian women masturbating, watching porn and masturbating. I did a podcast. She never, the lady never published a podcast because I ripped her a new one after the podcast and I ain't gonna say her name. She prayed to start the podcast and prayed to end the podcast and then after the podcast told me that she watches porn and masturbate. And I ripped a new one. I said I basically said, "Are you crazy? Why would you pray if you know you living in willing sin? Are you absolute nut? Like don't ever play with God like that. Don't ever play with God like that. She never aired my podcast. But when she met me, she realized she met a real one. When she met me, she realized, I don't get down. I don't get down like that. I don't play with the Lord, man. Don't have me praying. Don't don't don't pray with me and you around here joking off intentionally on purpose. You around here watching porn and masturbating. Do not play with me. You just had me in a seance. You just had me in a satanic ritual praying with you. Don't pray with me if you know you're going to live in willing sin. I could see if you look up at a guy and you he got on gray sweatpants and you saw a meat leg print and it and you had to catch yourself and pray that that's different. Like we all human but when you go through the steps to sin or you playing in God face then uh don't bring don't do nothing. That's why I don't pray with people. Sometimes people get on the phone and they said Tony can we pray? I I let them know I said listen I don't even pray with my wife like that. Like I my relationship with God is intimate. Like when I come together in prayer, it's to cast out some demons. It's it's it's really like we really to going in. I don't play with prayer. I don't play with God. I don't play with the intimacy with God. I don't play about God. I that is dangerous. Like I was out there in the streets playing with my life. I will go in I will go in a blood neighborhood with blue on before I play with God. And vice versa. I will go in a neighborhood with blood red on before I play with God. I literally will go on a eye mission. I I scrap up AK-47 AR 15 that I got at my house and go at it with the police with crooked police and up target practice before I play with God. I'll be a one-man army verse the Navy Seals the Green Beret before I play with God. I don't play with the Lord. When the Lord has spared your life, have saved your life again and again and again and again, you learn when you experience the goodness of God. You never ever ever want to experience the wrath of God ever. And that's what these people don't understand. A lot of people is playing with God because they can't see God. They can't hear God. They can't feel God. So they will tiptoe and they will play with God. Like you can't even have the semblance or the appearance of evil. Like you can't play with God at all. So, it's like if you getting ready to do something and the body of Christ reprimands you, we're not hating on you. To every Christian speaker, every pastor out there, when you get reprimanded by the body of Christ, we are not hating on you. We are not jealous on of you. We're trying to help you avoid temptation and damnation. and we praying and we begging and we crying out. Don't let your ego go before you. Don't let your ego get ahead of you. Don't Don't be prideful. Don't be don't don't feel like you're being attacked. It's just that we don't have access to you. We can't reach you. So when I go public, when I go online, it's because I don't know the people. I can't reach them. I can't text them. I can't tell them. If I if I can, I do that. I reach out. I have a conversation. I talk to them. I talk to them. And then if they don't listen, then I got to go above their head. And it's no longer about just them. It's about the people they trying to impact and the people they trying to affect, then I go to save those people and say, "This person right here is not right. They ain't doing right. They they they don't listen to the to the spirit of the Lord." and be careful cuz you about to get led astray. And I don't think the brother is there yet. I I we all could end up there. I don't think he there yet. But I think that spreading the gospel for a ticket price and making yourself accessible as like a celebrity for a higher ticket price under the guise of the gospel is dangerous. It's dangerous. I would I I would say I I honestly think it would be more I honestly think it it would be more fitting to do a a tour on church building and charge a $1,000 fee to pastors to come out to the Marriott Ballroom. room. 50 to 100 pastors in that county all come out and learn from the brother on church building because now you're not selling the gospel now. Now it's basically like you're a seminary school. Seminary school cost money. You basically now are being paid as a consultant on how to build structure on systems and formulas and structure and and you still strengthening the body though. You still strengthening the body. You still spreading the gospel because you teaching these men and women how to build a ministry, how to build a church, and they already being paid from the church and their church could paid $1,000. So now you get $100,000 every city you go to. You can do so 10 cities you made a million. You're going to get more than that though cuz you may you going to have some cities with 200 250 300 pastors and the $22 million you need to build your church. You can make that in a couple years by being a consultant instead of being a celebrity. So instead of being a celebrity charging a VIP because what the VIP does, it creates classism and it creates separation. And here's the thing, when you're in that pull pit, when you on a platform, you're a celebrity. That's it. I experience it on a daily basis. There's it's women that it's certain some women that see me as a celebrity and they want to be in proximity to me because they see me as a celebrity. And I understand that. I'm not blind to that fact. So you got to think about it. A woman who is soberminded and a woman of God, she understand that God has no respector of persons. That God is no respector of persons. That Philip Anthony Mitchell is no different in the in the eyes of God than the homeless man sitting outside of the 7-Eleven. So, a woman who is sober minded, she's not paying $200 to meet men. She don't care because she don't see you as a VIP. She she doesn't see you as anything special because she knows God. She loves God. She doesn't believe in celebrity. She puts no man on a pedestal or as an idol. So, she not paying that $200. That's the kind of woman I married. She She not paying no $200 to meet nobody. And she always tell me, she say, "I would never be one of your clients." She said, "I would never pay to tell you all my business and to get your input on my life. She was like, that is to a stranger and and it's it's women like that who they just are confident, they comfortable, they in their skin, and they don't want no no type of male influence or interaction or what have you like that for pay. And there's and there's nothing wrong with seeking guidance. There's nothing wrong with that. But the thing about it is the the women who do it purely and say, "Well, I'm going to pay this 200 not because I'm worshiping in him or not because I see him as a celebrity, but because I want to sew into his ministry and I want to tell him what his ministry has done for me and how it has blessed me." It doesn't benefit us hearing a line of a hundred women and metrosexual and homosexual men tell you how amazing you are is of no benefit. I've been there. I've done it. I've had to stand and wait for lines of 200, 300, 400 people who want to take a picture with me. It is the most draining thing in the world. It is the most draining thing in the world. It is absolutely meaningless and it does absolutely nothing for you because you can't take none of it of the praise because you know all glory is due to God. So it don't do anything for you if you truly a servant of God. It don't boost your ego. It don't build your self-esteem. It don't build your head up because it going in one ear and out the other. So you basically just standing there for nothing. So I said when I if I go back to touring and stuff like that, I'm not doing meeting and greeting. I ain't doing I'm not doing paid meeting and greeting and all of that. Like yeah, I'll sign the books or whatever like that, but it's going to be very small audience is very limited and to be that's why my seminar November 28th is $500 on my my book, The Purpose Art. Realize it's not it's not the Christian ark. Realize it's not the Holy Ghost arc. It's not the religiosity arc. It's the purpose arc. And it's a book that I wrote. But guess what? The ticket is $500. And guess what? The ticket going to go up to a,000. You know why? Cuz I don't want to interact with every single spirit. I don't want to interact with everybody. And even with that ticket being up there and half of them already being sold, I know it's still going to be a couple of spirits in there. And I'm going tell you, sometime them spirits hit you, you got to go to war. It don't matter how Christian you is, how saved you is, how prayed you up is. The devil is the devil for a reason. That's how David fell for Ba Sheba. That's how Samson fell for Delilah. Like this how men fall by introducing temptation that is not necessary. Nobody needs us to tour. They could hear us online. Nobody needs us. Nobody need us to tour. We could pray online. We could speak online. Nobody needs us in their city. When we tour, it is for our own desire. It's what we want to do. God has made the internet. God want us tending to our household. God want us up under our wife, not in a cold hotel bedroom. And I'm telling you, I'm telling you, you not fixing to stand in front of a woman in that VIP line who is 6 foot tall, no stomach, teardrop booty, perfect skin, perfect teeth, perfect hair. professional work for CBS or Google and is having a conversation with you, looking through your soul, sucking the life out of you with a with a corporate Jezebel spirit. You're not f to stand there and be like, "Uh-huh. Yeah. What you want?" Uh-huh. Yeah. All right, ma'am. Yeah. All right. Go ahead, ma'am. You have to stand there and be like, "Oh, okay. Yeah." Really? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Uhhuh. Yeah. Uhhuh. Yeah. Yeah. Then she's like, you know, "Can I get your contact, you know, or your assistant contact because we have an amazing opportunity for you?" And all she trying to do is get proximity cuz she know she got to get on that phone with you. She got to get on Zoom with you. And she dangling opportunity that she ain't even got. I done been through it. I done been through it. women wanting to talk about, oh, I could do this, I could do that. Just to get on the Zoom, just to look you in your eyes for an hour, just to soak up your energy and just be the fake. And then we could think we have all the thing, but it's it's always you going I met one lady, she said, "Tony, I don't talk to assistants. Bosses talk to bosses." So eventually you gonna meet somebody like that that like I don't I'm not talking to your assistant. If you want this opportunity, if you want this donation, if you want this worldwide tour that could put millions in your pocket for your church, me and you need to have a conversation. And she could be slapped from Satan. And I'm going tell you like this right here. It don't matter how much you love your wife. Your wife ain't the end all be all. That's how men fall all day, every day. If David, the apple of God's heart, ain't a ain't no ain't no man living today closer to God than David was. If David could look out there and see that booty on Ba Sheba and sin against God and have Uriah killed, all of us is capable of that. And I'm I'm I'm going tell you like right here. I I've been saying this for the last few weeks. I done did over 4,000 one-on-one sessions and I never met a woman I would leave my wife for. But that still don't make women unattractive. That's that don't make a woman booty no flatter. That don't make a woman breast less supple. It don't change none of that. It don't take away the glow on her skin. It don't take away the smell on her perfume. So, if you're not a virgin and you done slept with more than one woman, just the scent on her perfume could trigger a soul tie. Just the look in her eye can trigger feelings and emotions. And the way the male body works, you could be prayed up and if a certain woman talk to you or get close to you, your penis will get hard against your against your will. You didn't will it. You didn't desire it. You didn't ask for it. And that's when you know that that spirit right there. That's when you know, oh my goodness, what in the world have I been sucked into? Oh my goodness. You start to contort your body start, you start to what the and you could feel it like it's like a it's like a magnetic field. I had a client that I met on the phone. She knew she had to see me in person. She took and paid $500 to come to a seminar. She sat in the front row with a one piece shorts bodysuit on cloth or cotton thighs out cameltoe booty jiggling. When I tell you I've never felt a Jezebel spirit stronger than that in my lane, I say this how every man that come into her grasps falls. You know what? You know what that young lady eventually created an offense in her mind to unfollow me and get from around me. And you know what it really was? It's cuz I never bent to her. I never bowed to her. I never got out of character. She tried everything she could. She tried to strike up an argument with me. She tried to flirt. She she she asked for money. Asked for a loan into the thousands of dollars. Like she tried everything she's ever tried with any man. And I passed that test. It was not easy. It was not easy. It was the hardest thing I have been through. One of the hardest. I done I done met a few women like that. And I've had to pass physical test where women literally throw themselves on me, their physical body to my body, and I have to push them away. So that's why I'm trying to warn these men that ain't been on that level, that ain't been on no real tour before, that ain't toured around the world. I done toured four continents out of the seven and tooured from 2012 to 2019. What you going to see and what you going to experience, you don't need that. Your wife don't need that. Your marriage don't need that. The body of Christ don't need that. God don't need you to tour. If he gave you a church, that's where he want you at. He don't need you to tour. Now, you going to tour cuz you want to tour. But you gonna see what I'm telling you is true. Especially if you letting women get in your proximity. And it ain't just women. It's going to be homosexual men, too. It's going to be men who posing as heterosexual. And they just the they just the gay is all out those. And they want to get up close to you, smell your cologne, hug you, be all up by you, and be and be gay as all out those because they done met a lot of Christian men who is gay, who is down low. They they they already poked the booty of some pastors, some speakers, some teachers, some leaders, and they want to get close to you. I had a couple of them hire me. I didn't had a few of them shoot at me through the DM. Listen, I done seen a lot, been through a lot, and had to overcome. That's why I try to tell y'all like listen, stop chasing, especially if you're a Christian, stop chasing fame. Stop chasing notoriety. And stop trying to cover it up and gloss it up as impact. And we don't need you to be that impactful. God got several other qualified ministers. We need you to focus on on your demographic. We need you to focus on your city. We don't need you around the world. We don't need it. Get on the internet. That's what the internet is for. So you can reach around the world and back and you ain't got to leave your wife in no cold bed by herself. You ain't got to be standing next to no scallwag with a demonic spirit on her that unzip your pants and pull your ding lane out your pants without even touching you. Yes, it's real. The people talk about this suckabus and incubus and all of that. That stuff real. I'm trying to tell you that stuff real. And and it'll make you get out of pocket. It'll make you get disrespectful. It'll make you ruin your brand because now people saying I remember I never forget celebrity woman. She was talking to me and she said, Tony, she literally said to me, she said, Tony, you need to be nicer to women. What she was saying is, "You too cold. You too you too shut off. You too like you don't flirt. You need to be nicer." And I'm like, "No, I don't. I'm having a conversation with you. I talk to you regular. Like, what you want me to do here? Keep keying?" Like, "No, I'm married." It's like, you got to realize who you talking to. What I come from, child. I I used to I was the type flip and toss you in day one. Like I got to keep this right here. Like I uhuh stand offish. I know what I come from. You hear me? Like I'm not f to play with that. No, I ain't f to play with that. And so I had to realize that. Had to make that known. Make that clear. And and I'm telling you, I can't tell every story because it's it's the worldwide web and you got dummies out here that think they whistleblowers and don't be blowing nothing but the whistle you gave them. And Tony got this. It's like woman you don't know me. You don't you ain't got no story on me. You ain't got nobody ain't told you nothing about me. Cuz if it was, you dumb behind would have done came out and said it cuz you broke, busted, and disgusted and need some clout. You're not f to have no story on me and be sitting on it. So shut that mess up and tell what you got then. If you got so many stories and so much tea, tell it. Go right ahead. Tell it. You ain't got nothing. And so hush. So that why I can't tell every story to try to help the way I need to because a lot of the stuff is too real. It too real and people will weaponize it and use your servantthood against you. That's why I created the purpose pushers and that's why I had to put it behind a payw wall because I know that the demons don't like to spend no cash. But see, think about it though. If I was the false prophetist, she would have called a group the prophetic push and then would be selling prophecy would be selling the gospel, would be selling speaking in tongues, selling the Bible. And and that's where we got to be careful with that. And I'm telling you, the world is looking at us and they losing faith in God more and more every day because they are looking and they feeling like that too many Christians are monetizing God and selling the gospel. And that's exactly what God does not want. He doesn't want our good to be able to be evil spoken of. And I'm gonna tell you like this right here. If you have to take to the pullpit to rebut online critique, that's a red flag because I'm with you when you're right. If see I went on a podcast with a with a gentleman who has lived we have some similarities in our life but I would venture to believe his story is far more than my story as as far as the street life is concerned to the point he don't even tell his. And I'm okay telling mine cuz it was just that small or insignificant in my in my mind. And I sat down with this gentleman and I had saw a interview he did with another Christian. And when I tell you they was going back and forth and arguing like cats and dogs. When I sat down with that gentleman, it probably was one of the most mild interviews I've ever had. And I'm sitting across from a OG with a with a with a rap sheet in the streets, a resume, a street resume. Like I'm I watch him go back and forth with killers. I watch him go back and forth. And we sat down and it was all respect. All respect. It was no rebuttal. It was no refuting. It was no arguing. It was no nothing. And I was like, "Bro, like I said to him one time, I said, "Bro, I want you to ask me the tough questions. Like, ask me the questions that guys like you from your demographic really really feel about me and really think about me." And he said, "Bro, I I asked you, bro." He said, "I don't ask you, bro." He said, "I just can't argue with the truth." He said, "I can't go BACK AND FORTH WITH the truth." He was like, "I agree with everything you saying." And that's that is how the spirit of God works. If God gives you a message, he's it the only spirit it's going to disrupt is demonic spirits. If if God told you to do this what you doing or all this right here, it ain't going to bother us who is in the body and praying and fasting and seeking the face of the Lord. It's not going to ruffle our feathers. It ain't going to bother us. We're going to be like, "Hey, go ahead, bro. Hey, go ahead, bro. Do your thing." But see, I'mma tell you. I'mma tell you like right here. The Lord told me, I can't remember what year it was. It could have been 2014, 2015. The Lord say, "It's a lot of people now that come into your space, the love and relationship space, and they frauds." He said, "I need you to separate yourself, and I want you to do a free tour." I did LA in a theater. I did Chicago in a 2000 seat room and I did Atlanta in a 2000 or something like that seat room. I had over 750 people register for LA. I had thousands register in Chicago. thousand registered in Atlanta free. I I paid for my flights for my hotel, my food, my homeboys that I took with me paid for their stuff. And then what I did is I sold my books and my t-shirts in the back of the room. And each city, the rooms, a lot of people don't know how to book venues. So the room, none of the rooms cost me more than 2500. that seat all them people and that's still to this day like you still now now I got a room at the grand high now ballroom at a grand higher on the water for five grand and that's food and beverage so it ain't even the room fee that's that I got to spend five grand in food and beverage so I actually get to use that five grand not just paying for empty walls and so I say that to say y'all people don't know how to build venues and the venues need you more then you need them. So they'll give you I I done wrote venues and say my budget 600 and it's at the Hilton in downtown Miami and they say, "Okay, cool. Come on. It's open that day. We need you, man. Come on in here. Maybe your your people that's coming will buy a room and they'll go to our restaurant and eat." Like these people starving. Like these people need to make money. So it don't cost as much as people make it cost. It's just when God didn't give you the vision, then he ain't gave you the wisdom. to do it because he ain't tell you to do it. So you spending an arm and a leg to make it happen because he didn't tell you to do it. But when he tell you to do it, he going to make it simple. He going to make it plain. He going to make it easy. He going to provide. So I was able to do those stops for free. And then guess what? It turned into coaching clients, consulting, ghostwriting, book sales, all of that. All legal, clean, good, healthy business. No scam, no nothing. What in Chicago it was so many people signed up for a course and my homeboy thought that that meant they just want to that I'mma charge them when I get back home. I said, "No, bro. You supposed to charge them right there." He left thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands on the table. and for course sales, all legitimate courses from real life experience. And so that's what I'm trying to tell you. Like I done heard three or four different Christian speakers say if they was going to spread the gospel, they would not put a ticket price on it. When you got Christians saying that, you can't just sit and feel like you're above every other Christian and God talk to you in a way that he don't talk to the rest of us and he's showing you something he show the rest of us. Will it be successful? Yeah, it'll still be successful because you got a lot of people just don't care. You just a lot of and and I don't care. It's like, will I will I pay for a for a ticket for a revival or for a prayer service or a a church service? No, I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't pay for that. And then some I've seen some people say, "Oh, he not selling the gospel cuz church is free on Sunday." Well, he said he going to spread the gospel. So, if he say he going to spread the gospel and there's a ticket price, then you're selling the gospel. It just you're not selling it on Sunday. So, it's free to your city and your members, but then it's a charge to everybody else around the world. And it's like, yeah, you got to pay for production, you got to pay for venue, you got to pay for flights, you got to pay for all that, but that's between you and God. That that's that's not the person's expense if you if you trying to spread the gospel. God foots the bill for the gospel because the purpose of the gospel is to reach everybody. So, if you have a ticket price, you can't reach everybody. You only can reach the people who can afford the ticket price. But it's not just the ticket price. They also have to afford a babysitter, gas, parking, food, or a flight, a hotel. So they're all spending a minimum of unless they single with no kids. But but even at that, you still spending a minimum of $100. And right now 70% of Americans can't touch $100. So the people you reaching ain't even the people that need what you bringing because the people that need the gospel the most can't afford a $60 ticket. So you have to to reassess and you got to think about it and you got to say, "Okay, let me just not say I'm spreading the gospel and let me just say I'm doing a podcast tour. I'm just doing a podcast tour. We're doing a podcast tour with a live audience and because there's a venue cost and all of this, we charging a ticket price or it's a donation for the audience, we asking that you donate 60, but if you don't absol if you absolutely don't have it, we asking that you don't take advantage of us and you don't scam us. And that's between you and God. God knows whether you have it or not and you just getting over. Or we got X amount of tickets that are donation tickets of $60 and we got X amount of tickets that are free tickets for the people who are just down bad and all they can afford is what it's going to cost to pay a sitter to watch their kids, the gas money and the valet parking or the self parking cost to get in. And they just need to be in the room. they need to be in the room. And none of that has been said. Now, after this video, it probably will be added because if you wise, then you listen to wise counsel. And and that's what it needs to be. And I honestly believe that's why them disciples didn't do another Acts 2:42 because of the backlash that they got because they're wise and I think they made a mistake. And I then I recently saw I think one of the speakers that was at that conference they had one the the man I I recently saw somewhere if I'm not mistaken that he had to sit down that he taking like a break that he stepping down or something like that. I don't know what that could be about. Maybe just need some rest or something. But I didn't look I didn't look into it too much. But that's kind of stuff start to happen when you step outside of the will of God or you stop seeking wise counsel and you stop listening. But hey, want to pop in. I need to get on. I just got done teaching our class with the purpose pushers. I made that name up. Just something something just came to me while I was creating the community. Creating community. Um counsel the bless tribe. You need to council the all access membership on Tony Gaston Academy. It's all going down in the Purpose Pushers community because that's where we really going in on entrepreneurship with purpose and stepping into your purpose and serving the people that you call to serve. And the reason why I did that behind the payw wall, even though it's 7-day free trial, is just for the sanctity of it. It's not church service. I don't pray with you. We don't speak in tongues or nothing like that. I'm sharing with you a purpose formula. A purpose formula that I created while I was on my three night, 4 day sbatical, if you would call it, and wrote the book in two days, published it. So, it's a textbook and a workbook that you gain access to when you become an official member. And then we'll have a call every week. Some weeks it'll be multiple multiple calls and everything will flow from there. So eventually the only people that will be able to text me will be in that group. The only people that will be able to do a one-on-one call will be in that group. The only people invited to the seminars will be from that group. The only people invited to to the retreats will be in that group. Because what I'm doing as my brand is growing and it's over three and a half million people across line. I have to create different boundaries um to keep the sanctity and the safety and the sanity because the the larger your territory gets, the more spiritual warfare, the more demonic play out there and just the more energy drainers and just people just pulling on you and just draining you and just taking from you and depleting you so that you can't fulfill the work that God has given you to do. So by having the purpose pushers community where we diving into the business structure and formula for when you want to do something more than just push a pencil on a deadend job and you want to be impactful and you want to serve a community or a demographic from maybe where you've hurt or maybe where you've caused pain and that's why I created that. And although some will say, "Well, Tony, ain't that similar or ain't that this?" You got to check it out and you got to see. We're not selling prayer meetings. We're not selling speaking in tongues sessions. We're not selling laying hands. It ain't it ain't none of that. God God is the through line. God is the foundation, but it ain't selling the gospel. And that's what I'm trying to teach all Christians of how you can serve your purpose full-time and earn a good living without packaging and monetizing the Bible. Like without monetizing God, you still have a purpose to fulfill where you can teach formulas and systems without having to lay hands and speak in tongues to make people feel trapped in your community. Like if they leave, they're leaving God. You could join my community and leave any day. And when you done getting what you came for, when you fulfilled, when you got your whole idea and mission and vision and everything sewed up and you don't like community, you no longer need community, you're free to go because I'm not praying over you and praying on you before our meetings and at the end of our meetings to put extra guilt on you. And that's why the church is losing so many people because they're starting to guilt trip people into paying tithes. They're starting to guilt trip people into staying in the church instead of just letting God speak and letting God be God and letting the evidence of God be prevalent and prominent and present. So when I'm speaking on a call like I did tonight, they could feel the Holy Spirit without me saying Holy Spirit. they could feel the flow and the presence of God without me saying it. So you don't have to pray on people and you don't have to wrap people up in a bunch of, you know, scripture and all of this to make them feel like just like people doing podcast on the Bible because they know that it's going to draw people in and people going to feel like sucked in and like, "Oh, I got to listen to this cuz it's cuz cuz she got a Bible open." So, I gotta be here. And it's like booing somebody at Apollo who's singing a gospel song. And and a lot of people starting to play with God like that. And it's like, listen, find something else to play with. Like, learn how to live for Christ on your own time. And let your your energy and your meaning your demeanor and your attitude and your service be a representation of that without you having to package and monetize God. And it's a fine line and it's hard to understand. It's hard to see the difference. A a layman may not see the difference. A baby in the Lord may not see the difference. But for those who are called, but at battle and at war and in spiritual warfare, you know the difference. You know the difference. And you got to take heed. You got to take heed. So hey, this Tony Gins, all the important links in the description. Join us. Seven days on me. Check it in. See the community. See all the amazing people in there. tap in the in in the little chat on the purpose pushers and share what purpose is to you. Um, listen to our first call. It's in the classroom. You'll see the classroom. If you miss call one to hear the overview and everything we're going to do, we got a retreat to Malta. My retreats are just relaxation. So, if you work really hard, you you making good money and you want a vacation, but you just don't you don't know like who to vacation with or or your friends and family can't afford to vacation with you on your level, then my retreats is for you. So, it's June 2027 to Malta. Um, so mark your calendars. I I'll get the link for it and we'll I I'll share the link, I'll add the link to the description, but mark your calendar for now. And um and if you really really really want to go u right now, you want to claim it. It it' be about 5,000 I think um all in not not your flight. No, I think it's three or 4,000 and then your flight on top of that. But if you want to to go then send me a email or something like that or in the comment and I'll grab their link and share it with you. But God bless you. Keep your head up. And again the retreat is not a Christian retreat. Meaning it's not a church retreat. It's not a prayer meeting retreat. It's not a prophecy retreat. It's a relaxation vacation with likeminded people. I don't like to be over there doing no coaching. I do answer questions and all of that, but I try to tell y'all talk to God. Like, I'm not a guru. I'm not an expert. Don't put me on no pedestal. Let's just get out the country and just relax. And I and I do it just for community. I don't want to do it. I do not enjoy them. I will be honest with you. I don't enjoy them. I don't like being around a lot of people. I am shy. I am an introvert. But I do it and I sacrifice and I put myself out there for other people because I know other people need that community. And that's why I started the purpose pushes community for that very reason. And so, hey, God bless you. We'll talk soon.