Catching Back Up: Building Community Through Healthcare, Real Estate, and Culture

Start with the truth: growth hurts and heals at the same time. We’re coming back to the mic to unpack a season of stretch—expanding a mental health and IDD practice into real estate, building a one-stop ecosystem for care, housing, and transport, and learning to love the uncomfortable seat of being a student again. The story is raw and practical: how we vet craftsmen like we vet clinicians, why a clean scope and a calm timeline save you money, and how the right agent and lender can turn a door that looked locked into a doorway that changes a block.

We share the wins that matter and the ones that don’t show up on spreadsheets. A staff appreciation day that lifted morale when deadlines pressed in. A community book bag giveaway—seventy-plus backpacks with real supplies—that reminded us generosity is a strategy, not a slogan. Two projects with names and lessons—Belly Duplex and Abbott Elementary—that forced us to think like operators and neighbors, not just investors. And the honest tension of parenting a teenager who thinks we’re corny while we stack receipts he’ll one day read like a blueprint.

Underneath it all sits a thesis we’re willing to be judged by: power isn’t muscle; it’s relationship. Real estate becomes community development when it sits alongside healthcare services, transportation, and local partners you can call by name. Leadership becomes art when you choose clarity over speed, appreciation over ego, and collaboration over isolation. If you’re building a business, growing a team, or hunting for your next brave step, there’s something here to hold onto—and put to work today.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Reintroducing The Artist-Leader Self
• 4:27 Entering Real Estate As A Student
• 6:53 Hiring Craftsmen And Learning The Game
• 8:23 Gratitude And Partners In Deals
• 9:14 Staff Appreciation And Team Morale
• 10:56 Mission Of Employer-Employee Unity
• 12:53 Community Events And Book Bag Drive
• 14:53 Projects: Belly Belly Duplex And Abbott Elementary
• 16:28 Fatherhood, Ambition, And Legacy
• 18:43 Documenting The Journey

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 1:37

Freedom speakers. It has been quite some time since I didn't brought you some content from me and really gave you some really in-depth content of me. And not even content. I'm not really a big fan of that. More I'm an artist. I like art. So give showing you my life in an artistic form. So it's been some trying times lately. It has most definitely been some trying times. But good times though. Good, good, good, good, good, good. Okay. It's been demanding a lot of me. I've been stepping in a lot of new. So I'm happy with that. Okay. I want to make sure I say that I'm happy with that. This demand that has been asked of me and placed upon me as who I am, chosen, a leader. I'm uh a person who accepts the challenge of growing, you know. So I'm thankful for the opportunities. And uh let me, it's almost easier to kind of tell you backwards than starting from the beginning. That's almost 13 years worth of things. But um, so I'll take you back. So therapeutic relations healthcare services is the healthcare agency that uh my wife and I own. We have branched out into real estate a little bit more so that we can offer housing to our clients and be able to monopolize with the families and be that one-stop shop. So I've been really exercising um investing, getting into the real estate, getting inside that that arena, man, and really playing. Um, and it's not for the cheap, it's not for it's not gonna get rich quick and things like that, but it is it can be lucrative, man, and it can give you some leverage in the world. So I'm still a student, all right. And that's that's it's actually new for me, but I like it. I like it. I like being a student, okay. I am a master in so many other things that I've been doing for so long that I needed that refreshing feeling of being a student. That that student of you going back to school in the fall, and you got you some fresh, crispy Air Force ones. Maybe you got you some starch jeans, some Levi's or Rock-Aware. I come from that that area, you wearing rock aware, you need and that stuff. But you you you you I feel fresh and ready. I want to go in and present like my my eagerness to learn. You feel me? So that's where I am. So with the real estate, tapping into that, learning the finance side of it, learning that jargon of what the house is worth, what's the uh point of sale, all it all is too much, it's gonna be very overwhelming. But I am the on the investor side, purchasing, um, flipping, um, and looking for craftsmen, you know, trained professionals. So if you are looking to grow and build with me, go check out my IG page at Johnson's group management team. You can look it up at Johnson GTM00 at IG. So let me slow down for just a second, okay. With the home, the housing, it's a beautiful thing, but it is still a new thing. I found me at different times, kind of rushing to try to get things moving, um, trying to find proper craftsmen and thinking that it might have been a little different from working in healthcare, looking for uh team members and talent that way. But it's still the same. Having them have people interview, audition. Uh, everybody state that they can do something when you know you put a dollar amount that works with them on the line, but legitimately need skilled laborers, skilled craftsmen, people who are looking to either learn, have the skill, uh, or they're coming in with a good attitude, and we can build them up. So the real estate has been that new itch I've been scratching. Okay, I needed that kick of dopamine, I needed that new, I needed that refreshing new feeling, you know. And this has get it done it for me. I want to give a special shout out to Alexis Jones, Rachel Thompson, and Andrea Allen of the He Sales, She Sales Realty Group for assisting us with purchasing two of our investment properties. Big shout outs to them. It's just a beautiful journey to be on. There's so much that goes into it, it's so much to learn, so many people um learning uh who who lenders are, uh, refinancing things, um, people who can kind of help get you into places that hey, you usually you wouldn't you wouldn't be able to get into. So very, very, very, very thankful for that. Um, so taking it a step back from that of the real estate, we actually had a staff appreciation a few weeks ago where um I reached out to a few colleagues of mine, DJ Billionaire. Um, shout out to DJ Billionaire and uh Cooking with Tweezy. Both of these gentlemen, both of these business entrepreneurs, uh came to my call of me asking for them to show up and show out for my team and my clients, just to be able to show that at therapeutic weekend. But you know, pretty much trying to do our best to uh be appreciative of the team, let them know that uh we are here, and my goal as an entrepreneur, okay? My goal as an entrepreneur is to take the negative narrative out of employee versus employer because we really both need each other, all right. Um and with that being said, man, we are growing and wanting to show the team like, hey, though we are in the in, you know, the growth spur can trying times, hey, we want to keep the morale up and we see what they're doing and we're thankful for them. Okay, sometimes uh no matter where you sit when you rain, everybody isn't always 100% happy of who is in charge. Sometimes you can have mutiny afoot within your system. Um, but another conversation for another day as I break down and unpack like different things of being a businessman entrepreneur, how you gotta how you gotta move, or at least my formulas. Okay, I can't tell you what you should do, but if you follow me and you see how I'm doing, man, I most definitely will give you my scientific, intricate ways and formulas of how I move in a room full of vultures. Okay. But on that same day and time, bringing it full circle, we had the uh staff appreciation and we had RB Bingo that was hosted by DJ Bigger and myself. Um was a beautiful, beautiful event. Shout out to the county board of DD. We tagged them on Facebook and on IG just to show um the different things that we are doing and introducing our clients into. Um and just a cliff note if you didn't know, man, um I hit my professional profession is mental health, um, intellectual and developmental disabilities. That's my specialty. So uh everything else that uh uh surrounds that with uh transportation line that we own, um, real estate and investments that we're getting into now and homes that we own. Um we have a brick and mortar at 5273 Broadview Road, Parma, Ohio, 44134. That is our brick and mortar of our day center and transportation line. Excuse me. We house and hold all of our vehicles there, and we have a vocational activity center in that same location, along with our corporate office. So uh it's a lot. We we have a lot going on, a lot doing, but um, I mentally need a pump like this. I need I mentally need to constantly stay busy. I need to constantly tinker and get things done. So on another note, you know, that's another day, another time of how my mental gears turn uh to keep everything orchestrated. But at this time, I take it back to we had the we're doing the real estate investments. We have uh, oh, and the two real estate investments named, we nickname them. Uh, one is Belly Belly Duplex. That is a duplex home on uh 146 off of Kinsman area, Cleveland. And then we have another one called Abbott Elementary Might have seen on my IG uh page. Um, some of the work that we've been doing and contractors that have been working with us to uh get some projects done in a timely manner. So we have, let me make sure I'm bringing it around. We got the real estate, we did the staff appreciation. Uh oh, and before the school, so now have before that, like I said, I'm trying to remember, it's easier to remember it backwards than forward. We did a book bag giveaway hosted by ourselves therapeutic relation, and DJ Billionaire was there once again to uh offer the the music and keep the morale and everything up with the team. So shout out to DJ Billionaire once again for that event. But this was held in Parma, Ohio. We had 75 or 77 book bags that we had set up with supplies, uh hand sanitizers, uh bracelets um that had therapeutic relations on them. Let them know that we care. But um, we had those set up, man. It was uh notebooks inside of there, pencils, erasers, almost anything that a child between the grade, I mean grades between maybe uh second and sixth grade would need in those backpacks. So we were able to get those out. We were able to have the community come out, we were able to uh get some of the team to come together. Uh, but it was a beautiful, beautiful event. And we just wanted to send a message to the city and to our families and people who were supporting us that we are here and we are looking to grow and connect with our community. So that was uh uh an event that we was able to hold and a beautiful thing, a beautiful, beautiful thing. Uh, shout out and thankful to everybody that showed up for that. Um, after that, man. So let me break down that. We went shopping and got a lot of the uh stuff from Five Below, Walmart, just anywhere discounted that we can get to be able to give it away. Remember, these book bags we gave away. We weren't looking to make money, we were looking to make connection, we were looking to make relationship, you know. So um very thankful for the people that showed up for that, you know. How about um permission to speak freely, y'all? Freedom speakers, I I've been catching you up on me, but I really feel like I still need to uh speak freely a little bit more. With all that I am doing, I am still not content. Okay. What do men with power want? More power. I want to do more. I want to have a bigger, larger impact. Okay, uh, most definitely on my city, Cleveland, Ohio. I want to do more. It is necessary for me to do more. Um, it is in my power to do more. And the more isn't muscle, it's connection, it's relationship, it's resource to be able to have and do great things for the people who depend on me and people who who are willing to grow with me. So I I take the entrepreneurial thing of being a businessman as my career very serious, but even more serious than that, man, I take being a father. Okay. I take being a father more serious than being a businessman. And I love for my son to get to see his dad get it by the sweat of his brow. And I teach and educate him. I hey, this is how you got to get it as well, baby. You can get it with some brute muscle for sure, but you want to be able to think and be uh a thinking man and have a plan and be intricate in how you move and have your formulas, and but all of that comes from trial and error, all of that comes from trying something, okay? And me trying things has allowed me to find myself and develop myself of what it is I like, what I don't like, what I can do, what I can't can't do. Uh, just skills of me, discovering me, finding me, building me, you know, and getting a chance to express to him like, hey man, I've been a 13 young 13-year-old young man named Ken Wan before. I'm a dope ally, my nigga. Okay. But he in that funky teenage boy stage where he his parents are the enemy right now. But uh, as he grows and get to see how how powerful his pops really is, my big handsome will come around. He'll come around, okay? But um, but I digress. I digress, okay. I digress. So thank you for just listening to me rant, get some of these things off my chest. Um, catch y'all up, man. Catch y'all up. I want to get more consistent with the art. Um, businesses have been whooping ass, man. It's been it's been trying times. As I said, it's been trying times, but y'all deserve to know more about me and what's going on. And I also want to get better at documenting my life. Okay? I want to get better at it. Social media allows that to happen. YouTube, all the platforms out there allow you to document your life. Okay. So I want to have people study me one day. Get to see, like, hey man, that man was crazy, but he really was a creative. He really was ingeniously brilliant. Just sometimes didn't have a place to display it. But that's changing. That's changing. So, and God allowed me to be able to speak and unify and touch people and pause. But um bring and and find unison within us. So I hope Tim McComos definitely continuously do that with my platform, with my information. Um, with just my my leadership of unifying and showing, like, hey man, we are stronger together. I feel like we've all done demonstrated someplace and sometime that, yeah, we big bad wolf, we can get it on our own. But the hunt is a lot easier when you got three skilled hunters compared to you gotta take down an elephant on your own. Though you can, pretty dangerous, but you got two other people, you can get a few elephants. So, on that note, thank you for tuning in and listening to me, your chief, permission to speak, freely.