From The Streets To Salvation: Roosevelt Sargent On Faith, Redemption & Underdog Rise (Inspirational)

What if your past—no matter how broken, painful, or dark—was actually the foundation for your purpose and your greatest inspirational story?

In this powerful motivational and inspirational podcast episode, Reginald D sits down with Roosevelt Sargent—speaker, author, and Pastor of Set Free Church in Nashville, TN—to unpack one of the most raw and inspirational stories of transformation, faith, and redemption you will ever hear.

From growing up with incarcerated parents, street life, trauma, and survival in dangerous environments, to becoming a man of faith, purpose, and leadership, Roosevelt’s journey is the definition of a true motivational speech in real life.

This episode dives deep into faith and motivation, self-improvement, spirituality, and personal development, revealing how God can transform even the most broken beginnings into powerful purpose.

Right now, many people feel stuck in their past, overwhelmed by life circumstances, or unsure of their purpose. You may feel like your story disqualifies you from success, faith, or impact,, but Roosevelt’s journey shows that no matter where you come from—your story is not the end. Through faith and motivation, self-improvement, and spiritual growth, you can transform your life and step into purpose.

Gain:

• A powerful mindset shift that will help you turn your pain into purpose through faith, motivation, and self-development

• Real-life strategies to break free from your past and step into a life of purpose, growth, and inspirational transformation

• Deep encouragement to strengthen your faith, trust God’s plan, and embrace your journey as part of your motivational and inspirational story

Press play now to experience a life-changing motivational speech and inspirational story that will challenge your mindset and ignite your faith to move forward today.

Roosevelt’s Contact Information:

Website:  https://www.rooseveltsargentspeaks.com

Victorious Underdog Book:  https://a.co/d/0WoYufp

Victorious Underdog Devotional:  https://a.co/d/5gB0JUh

Set Free Church Nashville:  http://www.setfreenashville.com

Transcript

Reginald D: Welcome to Real Talk with Reginald D. I'm your host, Reginald D.

On today's episode, I have Roosevelt Flo Sargent.

Roosevelt is a pastor, an author, and a speaker who empowers underdogs to reach their full potential.

Welcome to the show, Roosevelt.

Roosevelt : How you doing, my man? Thanks for having me.

Reginald D: Absolutely, man. Thank you for coming on the show.

Roosevelt : I'm honored to be here, man. I love to give God glory and share with the people what God is doing for me, man.

Reginald D: Oh, man, I'm very excited about you. I'm going to tell you a story, man, when I read about it. So let's start out like this.

So, Rosal,

take us back to the beginning. Where did you grow up and what was your childhood like?

Roosevelt : Oh, man, it's crazy because I grew up in several different places. I was born in a town called Stockton, California, which is Northern California, next to Sacramento. At an early age, we moved to Seattle,

and that's kind of where I spent my childhood years between Seattle and Stockton.

When I became a young man, teenage years, I moved to la. Late teens,

ended up staying there for several years until now I'm here in Nashville, Tennessee. But life for me. I was the child of two incarcerated parents. It's very common for the father to be gone and locked up.

But both of my parents were doing a big. When I was young, I was living with my grandmother, who was a pretty tough lady. She was a gangster, she was a gun totem.

She actually killed my grandfather before I was born. And she was pretty heavy with that life. She kind of taught me how to, you know,

run in the streets and, you know, she taught me the rules.

And she was really my OG at a young age.

Consequently, I got involved in street life at a very young age. Was involved in a murder when I was 16 years old.

One of my buddies at the time took the rap for that situation.

It was just the grace of God. I didn't do any time behind that situation. But that situation caused me to pivot a little bit in the streets because I thought I wasn't gonna be gone forever or a very long time, you know.

But I was a teenage parent.

I was homeless,

I was a drug dealer.

I was plagued with about 100% of the things that plagued the youth in the inner city.

All of it got me and I was headlong on my way, brother. The cards were stacked against me.

And on top of that, I made a whole bunch of bad decisions to compound the severity of what was my life.

Gave my life to the Lord at 19, God caught a hold of me, found me. He was in hot pursuit. He pursued me like we know he does.

And I surrendered to him at the age of 19, man. And I'm 52 years old now. And I praise God that now I've been saved longer than I haven't.

But I will be honest and subtract some years for bad behavior. You know, I had a period of time where I was cutting up a little bit,

but.

But yeah, man, my life has been redeemed by the glory of God. And I'm here to share that with as many who will hear it, man. And we're touching lives daily.

Reginald D: Oh, man, Absolutely. Absolutely. I've been in a situation before, you know, mine's a little different, but when people kind of have the,

like you say call stat against you or saying things about you like, hey, man, this is it. This is what you're going to be. This is where your life is going to be.

And God steps in like he did with me, man. It turned me around,

made me see the real me and who I supposed to be in this world and things like that. So let me ask you this.

What did survival, because it's kind of. Your story is interesting because you got two parents incarcerated and then you living with your grandmother. So most people, when they can move with their grandparents,

grandparents are the ones who teaching you, like, hey,

the real life stuff, the good stuff and all that kind of stuff. A lot of the stories I hear,

your grandmother's on the level.

Roosevelt : Yeah.

Reginald D: So what does survival really look like for you at a young age? Like that?

Roosevelt : So when I say survival, it's really survival. It's not just survival in the streets. Like, we was poor. I know what it's like to not know where my next meal is coming from.

You know what I mean? So it's like running around and not knowing where I'm gonna sleep at night, that type of thing. But then you. You add that street element to it.

And I was in the streets in the 80s and the bodies was dropping every day. I buried a lot of my teenage homeboys growing up.

So running in them circles and keeping your head on the swivel and watching your back every day, every day could be your day,

literally. So we had to survive that on a regular basis. Before I got caught up, just on the way to school, we was getting chased by gangsters in the neighborhood, you know what I mean?

And being courted so to join the gang. And me and my young friends,

I remember about 10 years old, me and my best friend, we pinky promised that we wouldn't join a gang, we wouldn't get involved in the streets like that. And three, four years later, we was all standing on the block.

Cause they have a recruitment system,

you know what I mean? It's like, if you can't beat them, join them. And one day the heat gets hot enough and you join them. And joining was a survival tactic, you know what I mean?

And now that you're locked in, you got protection, you got a little bit of money,

so you're surviving on the streets, but now you gotta survive the next level of the game,

which is death and mayhem all around you every day. Right.

You know, I mean, God pulled me right out of a rated R situation. I think the whole world is rated R. Really? I have thoughts on that.

Yeah.

Reginald D: Yeah. So, Roosevelt, let's talk about this. You know, everybody has the lowest point in their life, right?

So at your lowest point,

what were you believing about your future and about yourself?

Roosevelt : And my lowest point was right before I gave my life to the Lord. And I thought, if my life doesn't change,

I'm going to be dead or I'm going to be locked up for a long time like my father. And like, you know, my brothers did a lot of time. Like everybody I know this is very common.

So I knew where I was going.

You know what I mean? I hadn't expected it.

I definitely didn't expect to make it to be 52.

So I'm doing all I can with the time I got left, man, because I'm blessed to be here.

Reginald D: Yeah, absolutely, brother. Me and you both.

So is there an exact moment that you remember and that you shifted and what came up inside of you say, hey, man,

what was going on at that moment?

Roosevelt : Man, I love to tell this story because I remember, like, it was yesterday. I was about 17 years old and my son was born. My son had just been born and I hadn't met him yet.

He was about a week old, and I was on my way to see him for the first time.

And we were outside of the apartment that we were going to walk in, me and two of my homeboys,

we smoked real quick so we can get our mind right before we walked into this house.

We walked in, I was high as a kite.

Her grandmother came to me with an open Bible.

And you know how we respected our elders, man. I was high as a titan. I was not a nice guy, but I said, yes, ma', am,

and I started reading the scripture for her.

And I was reading out of Corinthians, where It says, you're bought with a price and you're not your own. This and that, whatever. And I read it and I was like,

I wasn't trying to internalize the word. I was just trying to read it to get her off my back.

And I felt it.

My high lifted and I was sober in an instant. And I looked around to see if anybody could tell.

And she didn't say nothing else to me. She said, okay. And she turned around and walked away.

And I was changed. I have not been the same since. I didn't give my life to the Lord that day,

but I haven't been the same since that day.

I started seeking on that day a couple of years later when I was 19, that's when I sold out.

That's the spark that lit the flame right there.

Reginald D: Wow, man. It's something about the older generation and their connection with God. Because like I said, I wouldn't be, I am if it wasn't for my grandfather, man. He would just say something just quick or whatever the case may be.

But he had so much power on him and his connection with God. When you walk away, man, we're never the same. And that was like, people who will meet him be like, man, I met this guy.

He was sitting in front of his yard and I started talking to him. He said, man, I never. I never the same. When I left this man, you know, he was a pastor and all that.

So I get it.

So now here's the bigger thing that I believe that people struggle with. When you come from one part of your life into the new you, right?

What role did faith play in that transformation? Because a lot of people, they try to transform.

They don't stay there,

you know. And how did your relationship with God begin or deepen in that season when you finally said, hey, I'm here.

Roosevelt : Yeah, I'm glad you said, how did it deepen in that season?

You know, because I believe that I've always had faith.

I just didn't know exactly what it meant. I've heard about the faith. We talked about it at home. My great grandfather was a preacher. He built the church with his hands in my hometown.

And I've been going to church on Easter all my life, just on Easter,

you know, I remember one day, you know, at school, you talk to your friends and you find out what they are about. So I had friends. Some were Christians,

some were Muslims, some were. Some were other things. I didn't know what I was.

So I came home one day and I said, mom, what are we they're talking about this religion. I don't know what we are. And my mom told me,

she said we were Christians now. She said that. But ain't none of us been born again at that time, you know what I mean? We were just doing it, you know?

But I always believe.

I always talk to God.

I wasn't talking to the God that I know, that I know now.

But,

you know,

somehow, some way, I believe he was hearing me, man.

God knows if we are called,

if he knew us and called us before we were formed in the womb,

then he had to been hearing me before I said yes to him. When I was in the wilderness and I was out there in them streets,

I used to be selling dope and rolling with a pistol in my lap and a Bible on my dashboard because I thought it would keep me safe. I just didn't know no better, man.

But I always had that faith. And when I read that scripture and it came alive in me that day,

you know what I mean? It was a literal seed that took two years to grow.

And when it came to pass,

that's when I surrendered. I walked up to that altar and I gave it up. But it wasn't.

Wasn't hard for me. Now, the struggles that I had, you know, to make the transformation to be a good guy, that was a little more challenging. But the faith,

I've always been solid with the faith, man. Just my actions and my faith catching up to my actions, that's another thing.

And I identify with the streets. I know a lot of people in the hood have faith. And so I recognize that sometimes it takes time for your faith to catch up with your actions.

If you really believe it like you say you do, you'll seek to know God. And if you really know him, he'll work on you. Holy Spirit has a function.

Make that difference in your life.

Reginald D: Yeah, that's it, man. That was. Well, but like you said, man, you know, you just gotta keep going at it. Sometimes you don't see it,

you know, Sometimes you don't. You know, things happen in your life. You're like, who is this God? I know he's real somewhere, but I gotta try to find him. I gotta have that connection that I see other people basically have.

You know, things like that.

So now let me ask you this, Roosevelt. During your journey,

where you came from, what you were used to,

right,

during your journey, has your faith ever been shaken?

Roosevelt : Yes.

Yeah,

Several times. I recently,

less than a year ago, got remarried, but my previous wife passed away.

And this happened in 2017 after I had written my book. And when I wrote the book, I felt like,

you know, all the bad stuff is behind me,

you know what I mean?

And my life had been plenty shaken before this,

but met this woman. We got married on our one year after our one year anniversary, she got sick. She had a brain tumor check. And ten months after that she passed away.

During that time I put my faith on 10 because I thought there's no way God was going to allow this to happen after all that I'd already been through.

You know,

I was so confident that. But I based it on the fact that my life had already been so hard.

I was with this woman.

We both had a pretty tough past and we both were celebrating the fact that God brought us together. You know, the tough times were behind us. Now we had to move forward and live out the rest of our life in faith.

And when she got sick, I told God, I said, there's no way you're going to take her from me after all that I've been through. There's no way. How much can one man go through?

Like I've already gone through so much. This is a test.

We're going to get through this and we're going to write a book about it and we're going to save souls. You know, that was my attitude.

It didn't get real to me until the doctor told me she probably won't live through the night because I was holding faith that hard, that long.

And when the doctor said, hey man, she's shutting down,

she's not going to make it through the night in that moment,

that's when it got real to me. And that's when I just broke, man. And I was.

I don't want to say I was angry at God,

but I.

When my wife passed away, I got drunk,

I got high.

I was drunk for a long time, for probably six, seven months.

And I still believed in God, but I didn't roll with him the way that I had prior to that, if that makes sense.

Yeah, you know, I was self medicating. I didn't want to hurt no more.

I just wanted to, to feel better.

And the alcohol was making me feel better, helped me go to sleep at night,

you know.

And that was probably the toughest time that I've walked through in my faith. And another reason why I love the Lord so much is because he didn't allow me to get slammed during that time.

He didn't allow me to get destroyed during that time. He didn't allow the over the Enemy to overtake me completely. During that time,

he ministered to me, he loved me,

and he began to let me know, because before this happened, I would minister to people that had lost their loved ones. But you don't know a thing until you know a thing.

I didn't know what that really felt like until I know what it really felt like.

And then the Lord started showing me how where addiction begins. In most cases, addiction begins with an event or something dramatic, you know, because I was headed that way.

And thank God, man, he snatched me out of that without dealing with the addiction side of it and all that other stuff.

But that would have been the roughest part of my faith walk right there.

Reginald D: Yeah, man, that's one of the toughest things. And I always tell people,

you know, it's easy to say to somebody or talk to somebody about what they're going through and try to take a not really easy approach, but a more soothing approach to somebody.

But when something like that happens and you lose your wife and then you have faith in God. I've lost loved ones, and my faith in God was on 10. I'm like, man, I can't believe you just done this.

You know,

you letting this happen.

You know what I'm saying? Because you're praying and you're praying and you have it of faith. But, you know,

his ways are not always his thoughts, not our thoughts, you know, at the end of the day, and then at the end of that, you have to accept it and basically bowing down from it or walking away from him and how he loved you.

We're not going to understand it all, you know, at the end of the day,

but stand it with him, you know, it's a song. They used to say by and by, we'll understand it better by and by,

you know, so that's one of those things. And it'll come with time.

Roosevelt : So he who endures to the end shall be saved. This life is something to endure, brother.

Reginald D: That's it. Got to, man. You know, life didn't come here to be perfect. You can't hear, just be life. Right? That's what it do.

Roosevelt : Exactly.

Reginald D: That's what it do. So, Roosevelt, what inspired you to write your book Victorious Underdog? And how did you come up with the name Victorious Underdog?

Roosevelt : Oh, yeah. I love answering this question, too, because it's pretty cool to answer. What inspired me to write it? I was a rapper,

and we were traveling all over the country rapping. And, you know, you talk, too. So I'm sharing my testimony all the Years. All the people that heard me talking about the testimony, I can't tell you how many times people have told me, bro, your life is a movie.

Your life is a movie. Your life is a movie. You should make that a movie because it's unbelievable. It reads like fiction.

So I was like. I was just hearing that and feeling that, and I was like, you know, I will. I think I will. You know, I mess around with the writing and the scripts and things like that.

We should turn this into a script, turn it into a movie. One day I was watching the movie called Antoine Fisher. I don't know if you've ever seen that.

I've seen it about 10 times. But this specific time I was watching just hit me different.

And when it was over, I went to my computer and I did some research,

and I found the real man, Antoine Fisher.

I later found out I'm just amazed by this dude. But what I didn't know is he turned into a major author and a screenplay writer. And he does all these things now.

But I didn't know that at the time I found him.

And when I found his website,

the first thing you see on his website, big letters that says, do not contact me.

And then underneath, he says,

I appreciate everybody. I love everybody. But if you sending me your information, I'm not going to get it. Like, that's just that I don't want to waste your time. So I understood that.

I wrote him a long letter anyway, thinking he'll never see it,

never respond to it. And I just told him how I was blessed by his life and his story, and if he could just lead me down the right path, because I believe my life is a movie that will impact lives like yours.

And he responded in 24 hours.

And he became my mentor for a little while.

And he's the one who led me down the path to write a book, because he did that first. He has a book called Finding Fish.

And I didn't know that either, because all I know is the movie Antoine Fisher. So he told me, I didn't set out to make a movie. I was just trying to write my story.

And this is it. You know, I wrote the book Finding Fish, and then it turned into that. Then I went and found the book, and I read the book, and I was so inspired.

I was like, I'm gonna write this in a book. That's what I'm gonna do. And. And that was the best plan for me, because that was therapy.

That was the first time in the history of my life that had unpacked all of my childhood trauma,

and that was the first time in the history of my life that I realized that it was trauma. I thought it was normal.

You know what I mean? I didn't realize that all the brokenness inside of me is a result from back then.

And writing the book was incredibly therapeutic for me.

So that's how it came to pass. I got long, long answers, but that's how it came to pass.

Reginald D: Yeah,

y', all, man. That's awesome. That's awesome, Roosevelt. So let me ask you this.

Do you believe people are born underdogs, or do life circumstances create their identity in them?

Roosevelt : I believe both.

I believe there are people that are born into bad situations.

I believe I was born into a bad situation that just kept getting worse.

That's what I believe.

I had no choice in the matter of where I was thrown in life.

I was just thrown into it. I also believe, because I know people that weren't born into a life like mine that chose it or, you know, life circumstances pushed them into it.

It's unbelievable how many people think the street life is cool and they want to do it and they don't have to.

That blows my mind.

Reginald D: Yeah, it is, man. And we losing a lot of young people because of that one decision.

Roosevelt : Yeah.

Reginald D: You know, and I'm like.

And not to try to give the street life credit, but here's the thing.

Everybody ain't built to be out there like that,

Right?

You know, you come from a good house, you come from a great neighborhood, you come from this. You see somebody across town running to this wrong person, you know, and, hey, man, come on here and hang out with us.

Everybody's not built to do it. You know what I'm saying? You know, not that I'm giving that credit, but at the end of the day, you just ain't built to do it.

Roosevelt : Right? That's the facts.

Reginald D: Right? So now, Roosevelt, you have a. You have another book, right? It's a devotional.

Roosevelt : Yeah, man. I actually have a few books, but this devotional is fairly new. Haven't done a lot of promotion on that, but, yeah, this is how I built the habits to.

To sustain me as a good Christian man. Trying to share that with people. But this is a different type of devotional. It's pretty gritty like the rest of the stuff that I do.

It speaks to a certain person.

Reginald D: Got it. So if someone feels overlooked, counted out, or forgotten, what's one truth from your book they need to hear today?

Roosevelt : I like to let people know that where you Are is not where you have to finish.

I always tell people, it's in my book that there's nobody.

Most people who are somebody came through a process to become somebody. There's a very small percentage of people that get it handed to them.

But everybody else, it comes to blood,

sweat and tears.

And you're not an exception to that just because you're over here. You still got to do the work. The blood, the sweat, the tears. And a lot of the times for some of these people that I work with,

they're behind the curve and they don't have a lot of the same opportunities, you know what I mean? They're underserved and disadvantaged in those things. But we live in a country that if you apply yourself and just knuckle up and do the work,

you can get somewhere. I'm a firm believer of that because I have published five books and worked on movies and all these other things. They all started in my head and now they're physical, tangible products.

And that's through the grace of God and through the blood, the sweat, the tears, it can happen. I'm not a special in that way. I'm just hard headed enough to keep going.

And most of the people I deal with are hard headed. So I'm teaching people how to use that to your advantage.

Stubbornness is nothing more than grit.

Hard headedness is grit.

Grit is a good word, hard headed is a bad word. But they're the same thing.

Yeah. And that works?

Reginald D: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And the thing about it, you know,

when you're saying what you were saying,

faith without works, the dead, right? That's what's in the word.

So I always tell people, I get the connection with God. I get you love the Lord and you live the Christian life.

But a lot of people still live it, poverty still live it, you know, beneath where they should be. Because no, they just want to pray, they want to shout, they want to go to church, they want to have, you know, have glory with God and all that kind of stuff.

But at the end of the day, man, you got to put work in.

Roosevelt : You got to do the work.

Reginald D: Yeah, he gonna meet you there, but you got to get there.

Roosevelt : And that's the magic. He blesses the word, right?

Yeah. That's why we get these things, you know, that's why I say I'm not special, man. I just believe it. I believe it'll happen. So I'm going for it. And look, it's happening.

You could do the same thing.

Reginald D: Exactly.

Roosevelt : Have some audacity. I Love that word. Have some audacity. Because there's people that have audacity. We see them every day all over social media doing the wildest, craziest, stupidest stuff. But they got the audacity and they're getting results,

whether it's good or bad.

Reginald D: Right. But they're getting it right. Right.

Roosevelt : The principles work.

Reginald D: That's it.

That's it.

Roosevelt, you spent over 15 years pouring into youth across the country.

What's one moment that reminded you, this is exactly why I went through what I went through?

Roosevelt : Oh, you asked great questions. Because I got a perfect answer for that, too.

One time we were performing, we were doing some ministry,

and I honestly don't remember where, but we were somewhere in the Midwest somewhere,

and we were sharing.

And this is a long time ago. We used to get letters. We got a letter and we got a lot of letters, but we didn't read every single one of them.

My manager brought one to us,

and there was a young lady who'd come to a youth conference.

She was so miserable with her life.

She had come to a youth conference to commit suicide.

And her plan was for her youth leader and all of her peers to find her dead in the bathroom. She wanted to shake up the world in a very crazy way and kill herself.

And she saw us minister and heard us give our testimonies,

and the Lord broke her down and she wanted to live. She knew that her life was not that bad.

And, brother,

I have other stories, but that is the one that I like to tell because that was the one that impacted me the most.

You know what I mean?

We.

Sometimes we think, man, because that was a youth group and, you know, there were Caucasian people, kids, young people, whatever. And sometimes we think that, you know, this ain't my crowd or whatever, man, but we gotta go wherever God tells us to go.

And if my ministry ever does anything, I know that we had a role in saving that girl's life.

Wow, man. That's what this is all about.

If my life was for one other life,

that's all good.

Reginald D: That's all good, man. That's the way I live it.

Roosevelt : That's the way I live it. Yeah. I'm trying my best to reach the masses, but I'm not. That's God's business. I'm just being obedient. Right, Right.

Reginald D: So let's go back to the youth like he was talking about just now.

What do you see in today's youth that reminds you of your younger self?

And what do they need most right now?

Roosevelt : I See, a lot of they call them Y ns now.

That's the youngsters in the streets, man. I see them, I see them. We were just like that. The difference is,

I see this generation is disconnected from.

Like I told you earlier, we respected our elders. There's a huge disconnect with the young generation and the elders. Like there's no respect,

there's no structure. And then the church mothers are gone, you know what I mean? All that stuff, all the old school stuff that we had, we had extra guideposts, you know what I mean?

We had extra bumpers, you know, we was trying our best to be bad, but somebody, grandma somewhere would grab our ear and we wouldn't fight them.

Now you see a young man with his pants down and disrespecting a lady and you try to correct him, he might shoot you on the street,

you know what I mean? These are the times that we're living in, you know what I mean? And it's crazy, but this is what we're seeing. So I definitely think that with the way that people are eliminating God out of the situation,

we're seeing what it looks like.

We're seeing a godless society.

Reginald D: Yeah, that's what we're dealing with,

you know, that's what we're dealing with. And this, you know, we just got to keep doing the work. And then a lot of times we got to shift.

Cause like I say, the older people, they're not here anymore. So we have to shift in a way to be more relevant and help, you know,

young people change their lives. So let me ask you this. What's the difference between someone who stays stuck in their past and someone who rises up from it like you did?

Roosevelt : Someone who just wants to stay stuck there?

I know several people of those. The difference is, you'll see that. I heard this old saying, it says the difference between a young fool and an old fool is the age.

That's just it,

you know what I mean? So it's like if somebody wants to stay stuck, I got every reason to be stuck. I had everything,

every excuse, every obstacle, but I was able to climb out of them. It's called doing the work, you know what I mean?

Everybody my age was 21 at one time.

Everybody my age in the hood was 16 at one time.

You can split us any kind of way. And some of us are career, law abiding citizens. And some of us are still doing the same old thing.

And if you can't elevate in your mind your mindset, get past your circumstances, get past your situations, get past your here and now. If you can't see vision.

The scripture says my people die for lack of knowledge. Right. So if you can't understand what the word is saying about your life and understand what life is all about.

We were just reading about how in Jeremiah,

how God told them to go and do life with the Babylonians. And that's crazy because in Jeremiah 29, God said, Go do life with them.

Go seek their well being. And when you make sure they're taken care of, I'll take care of you.

This is what God has called us to do. Go do life with the wild ones.

Seek their well being. Mean, literally means to save them,

get them saved. The scripture says, take wives,

give your daughters,

mingle with them, do life with them,

but save them. I don't know, man. I'd just be talking a lot. But I love going into this stuff because this is what we do. And I just love giving God the glory, man.

Reginald D: Oh, yeah, absolutely, man. Absolutely. And like you said, with somebody being stuck, you know, one thing I look at is sometimes people don't understand that they're one decision away from changing their life.

One decision.

You know,

you can change it for the good or you can change it for the bad, but it's you one decision away. You just got to make that right decision.

Roosevelt : It literally only takes one second to change the course of history. Right? Right.

Reginald D: So, Roosevelt, what I have is quick fire questions.

Roosevelt : Okay.

Reginald D: All right. There's not a right or wrong answer, man. I'm just going to throw them at you and just come at it.

Roosevelt : All right.

Reginald D: What's one word that describes your life right now?

Roosevelt : Crazy.

Reginald D: All right, Scripture, a quote that anchors you.

Roosevelt : I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me.

Reginald D: We got something in common. That's my favorite one. Yeah. The hardest lesson in life you were taught.

Roosevelt : Hardest lesson is that time is not on your side if you waste it.

Reginald D: What does winning mean to you today?

Roosevelt : Winning means to me today is being obedient, because that's how I measure it. It's not in quantifiable things. It's just being obedient to God.

Reginald D: That's it. So if you could speak to the younger you, what would you say in one sentence?

Roosevelt : Even though you may think it's corny, you can do whatever you put your mind to.

Reginald D: Absolutely. So now for the person listening right now, Roosevelt, who feels like life has counted them out, what do you want to say directly to them?

Roosevelt : I want to remind you about a person in the Bible named David.

Who God called the man after his own heart.

For to take his woman.

He committed adultery with the woman. He did some bad things that will get us kicked out of church in today's society. But I want you to know that that is not the heart of God.

God loved this man because he truly, sincerely repented.

So I thought coming to God was a stretch for myself, but I know you said in one sentence,

no, no,

Reginald D: no, no, that was good. Yeah.

Roosevelt : Oh, okay. That's hard for me, the one sentence. But yeah, I thought coming to God would be hard,

but I recognize that he loves me so much and he wants me so much, and if he'll take me, he'll take anybody. He wants you.

He wants to love you. Give him a try. You've tried everything else. Give him a try. Don't cost nothing.

Reginald D: There it is.

There it is, man. I love the sincereness. I love the truth about you.

I'm going to leave that right here.

So lastly,

Roosevelt, how can listeners purchase your books or follow you on social media?

Roosevelt : You can check me out@rooseveltsargentspeaks.com all of my information is on the website there. I'm not really ramped up on social medias like that. I've been out of the loop for years when it comes to that.

But rooseveltsargentspeaks.com is up to date. It's got all my information, there's links, all my products, my books, things like that right there. You can keep up with what we got going on.

Reginald D: Okay.

All right, there you have it, Roosevelt. Flow. Sergeant. Man, thank you so much for coming on the show, man. I really had a blast with you, man. I mean,

the work you're doing is amazing. And taking your life and turning into,

you know, testimony and stories that are impactful to people, young people,

you know, just giving it all up, man, you know, for the cause,

and that's what you do, and you get it. At the end of the day, you know, people think you gotta be a Bible scholar and all that kind of stuff to go out here and witness and talk about Christ.

I think the most powerful thing about being connected to Christ and Jesus is that your story, your testimony, is the most powerful thing you can ever do.

Roosevelt : That's right.

Reginald D: You could teach the scripture all day, you know what I'm saying? And some people still may not get it, but when they hear that person,

that story,

somebody gonna say, man, that's just like me.

Roosevelt : Yep, just like me.

Reginald D: You know, everybody else not saying anything wrong with it, but everybody else don't grew up good and all they knew is, oh, the Bible and Christ. And it started trying to witness and these guys on the street like, man, y' all don't even know what we going through out here,

you know? You all know the struggle is real. So yeah, I really appreciate what you're doing, man. And anything I could do to help you, man, just reach out to me.

Let me know, brother.

Roosevelt : Absolutely. And likewise, man. I really appreciate you too, man. I love the podcast journey and I respect everybody that's out here in this world pushing the line for the kingdom, brother.

Reginald D: That's it. That's it.

Roosevelt : I'll be praying for you, man. Pray for me and we'll keep it rolling.

Reginald D: Absolutely. Roosevelt Flow soldier, everybody. Thank you for listening to Real Talk with Reginald D. If you enjoy listening to Real Talk with Reginald D, please rate and review on Apple Podcasts.

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