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**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Jaylen Brown says, one of the hardest parts of becoming successful is how he can change, how it can change the people closest to you. Let's take a listen to what JP had to say.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (0:10)
Think about a lot of different situations and conversations. I think that's the hardest part for a young man and a young woman, but that's been the hardest part for me to navigate, because it puts you on an island, isolates you. Conversations become invoices.
The lines get blurred, and it gets tough. As a young man puts you away from and disconnected to certain things where it feels like if you have, if you need something or you want to go somewhere, you can't even go there. But as you mature, you get used to it and you learn to find whatever solace that you need. But if you're talking about the emotion of money, that's the, I think one of the most important conversations is that, that shift, that dynamic shift and how that affects the mental health of yourself.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:09)
He said some truth though. Yeah.
It affects the people around you more than it affects you, bro.
Because at the end of the day, Uncle Ochocinco, they want to live the same lifestyle you've lived. They want the same type of stuff that you got. Yeah, you can't do that, bro. If I help you, I help you. Hell, if I don't, I don't. You know what I mean?

**Iso Joe Johnson** (1:33)
But-

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:34)
Not obligated. Yeah, I ain't obligated. But when you, some people have you feeling somewhat entitled, bro, and you got to get rid of them. I'm just keeping 100 which you got to get rid of them.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (1:43)
They can't be around them.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:44)
Don't bring them around you.
Let them stay where they be, bro. I don't give a damn who it is, family or not.

**Chad Johnson** (1:51)
Yeah, that's one of the worst feelings. That's one of the worst feelings that they actually have to have people that were not there from day one. I'm talking about to have people, Joe, that were not there from day one, that come in while you've already made it, while you're already successful. We ain't talking about, I ain't talking about it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:07)
Hey, but Ochocinco, hell, even some that is, even some that was there day one. Hell, you can't take care of them, buddy.

**Chad Johnson** (2:14)
Yeah, no, you can't. You have to learn to say no. I'm very good at that. My circle, and we talked about this a long time ago in the earlier shows about my circle still being the same. My circle is still the same, and my small-knit group in Cincinnati, I got my small-knit group here in Miami, and it hasn't changed regardless of what I've achieved through life. When I was at the bottom, they still here. When I made it to the top, they still here. When I fell back to, well, I ain't fall all the way to the bottom. When I fell a little bit, they were still here. Now I'm back up, it's still the same people. Nothing has changed, and I learned how to say no, Joe. I learned how to say no, because saying no, what it does is it weeds out all the ones who really ain't there for you anyway.
It's easy. The word no, it's powerful because it forces people to show their true colors.
I always listen to everything people say to me, especially when they say it in joking form.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:13)
Because it's got some truth in it.

**Chad Johnson** (3:14)
Especially when they say it in joking form.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:16)
That's what I tell people.
When people tell me, oh, he was just joking. Hey, there's truth in jokes.

**Chad Johnson** (3:22)
Yes, every time, every, every time.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:24)
Sometimes people try to camouflage their truth by trying to make it funny. Yeah. Because the job of committing it is take real events and make them funny. Yeah.

**Chad Johnson** (3:34)
Come on now. That's how they, it ain't even Sunday, but go ahead. So it ain't even Sunday.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:38)
Go ahead. That's what people, oh, he was just joking. Oh, he don't know how to take a joke. Nah, he tried to frame it as a joke.

**Chad Johnson** (3:46)
Joke, yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:47)
But he meant what he's saying or she meant what she's saying.

**Chad Johnson** (3:52)
You got to keep the people from writing.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:53)
Oh, oh, so hold on. You don't do taxes, why? Because you're not a CPA. You're not a tax accountant. So why are you trying to tell jokes? Why are you trying to be funny? You're not a comedian. Yeah.