Meet Jaimel Hill

Today, we’d like to introduce you to Jaimel Hill.

Hi Jaimel, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I got to this position in my life because of many mistakes on top of mistakes. The hard work, disciplined efforts, and consistency came late after taking so much of my life and talents for granted. My father was an NFL receiver. I have 4 brothers who have experienced the NFL, too and followed in our father’s footsteps. Some of those steps were poorly placed, and we learned from those mistakes and bad decisions, such as walking on slippery slopes.

My mother was a collegiate swimmer and a serious bookworm like her mother, Edwina, the most wonderful grandmother in the world. That is why my siblings and I are such bibliophiles. Coming from a great athletic background and being influenced by great intellects, I would say that was my advantage over tons of other kids. I was very fast, so I ran track. I had an unbelievable vertical jump, so the high jump event and basketball were added to my list of athletics.

I was powerful in my upper and lower body, so I wrestled with lightning hands, which I discovered as a kid because I liked to catch flies or anything flying by. That and a man named Alonzo Latimore, who was like a father to me in my early teens during a crucial time. With a great mother and absolutely out of this world Granny and aunts, I was still a lost boy. What helped was he introduced me to boxing. From that and my love for all types of Martial arts movies, I got into kickboxing for a really brief moment. And, like I said, I took my skills and talents for granted.

My artistic ability was high, and my love for art was strong at an early age. I loved that my family exposed me to many different cultures from around the world, which was pretty easy because I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and fed my scientific curiosities, which sometimes conflicted with my Christian and Islamic beliefs. Nonetheless, I was given the freedom to be a freethinker and cherish knowledge and wisdom. I didn’t value that as much as I should’ve until I spent some time incarcerated and many years on probation.

Those misplaced steps trying to follow my father’s path; I got distracted and went a few wrong ways, misusing my leadership skills and all others to commit a crime. It paid, but it cost me more than I can ever replace it. Experiencing depression and having ADHD but not knowing what it was or that it even existed during my childhood years, I couldn’t get it together after high school, and college became a joke. I joined the Army. And even then, I couldn’t straighten up and fly right, and after four years and meeting the greatest woman from heaven, who I eventually married, I nearly lost it all.

But thank goodness for 2016, one of the years I was coaching my sons at Marcos de Niza High School. In my 40s, the lights of righteousness finally turned on. And I could pull my head out of my a@$ to breathe fresh air of reality and walk in my truth and purpose. #DBWT – Don’t Be Wasted Talent was founded. From my classes for certifications as a Strength Conditioning coach, MBSA Inc. Mind Body Soul Athletics was brought to light.

A year or so later, Flavorful Life Seasonings & Spices became my Frankenstein of flavor creations, and being the exclusive provider of seasonings and spice rubs to a few food vendors. 2019, I met a great business in Thurston M Smith. That began the Smoke & Sip International era of a business networking organization for cigar aficionados and enthusiasts who are business owners and entrepreneurs who have a great unyielding passion to increase value and impact lives. The floodgates of creativity were blown open then.

Choosing to become a life coach and mentor. Start a few podcasts. Write several books. Consult others as they start businesses. Finally, I accomplished a lifelong goal, which was to become a father to my children, whom they love and are proud of, and become the father to them that I needed desperately. So where I am now, as a highly sought-after football and basketball coach, serial entrepreneur, and overall greater man who is steadily working on himself to the standard of future men. I am so far from where I almost didn’t make it. Yet, I am still far from my greatest self, and all that I want to do with my life is a blessing to others.

You can’t spell testimony without the word test. And I’m ready for the next stages of my life to be a living testimony and inspiration for others. Who is finally fed up as I became? Who is done with being down and depressed and oppressed as prisoners in their own lives? All those who are sick and tired of not being who they know they can become but are fighting demons daily and feel like they are losing. Once you make that decision to fight back and choose to no longer be a waste of talent.

The showers of abundance won’t stop pouring. #DBWT. Don’t Be Wasted Talent. It’s easier said than done. But it must be done.

Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Nothing smooth about it. Failure is a part of success. The distractions and temptations of shortcuts, the easy life, fast money, and the confusion and not knowing the difference between being liked and being respected. I did not have my father or enough strong male figures in my life when I needed someone to call on for help before making bad decisions.

Not knowing who I was, and being a follower and afraid. Seeing a mother struggle and not understanding how or what to do. Some of the biggest hurdles and pitfalls were many times self-created. My infidelity and questionable friendships put potholes and structural damage in my foundation as a man. Mishandling money, poor time use, and lack of skill planning.

Major struggles. Having to choose my vision over all else and sincerely believe in myself after realizing there have been dozens of people who have placed chances and opportunities in my face, but I couldn’t see past myself. Not knowing and not taking the initiative can land you in quicksand. Procrastinating is a very powerful monster, and when teamed up with mental health issues, you struggle. Being afraid of vulnerability has created more of a struggle because you lose focus.

Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Being a serial entrepreneur is a class of its own. Being an average man and just existing, you function paycheck to paycheck. Above-average men have at least 3 ways to pull in income. A great man and beyond has at least 5 wells to draw from and at most 7.

So, becoming a business owner, learning serious financial discipline and financial literacy, and being psychotically passionate about everything and everyone I love is what I’m gaining a reputation for. That has led me to become an author, of which I am the most proud. Being the type of unicorn I am is what sets me apart. And that’s what is so amazing about life and this world. It takes all types of people to make this thing work.

As I tell many of these quotes, in a chapter in my book, Plan Your Work Work Your Plan, it is titled: Life is a team sport, and you’ll never win by yourself. I stand out and fit in at the same. #DBWT, my main focus is to become a prepared curriculum for schools to use, as we aim to create a better human and community by revamping failing school systems and the derailed trains of so-called education, getting them back on.

Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting?
The piece of advice I’d love for any who read this to take is to believe in yourself first. Enjoy the here and now and pay attention, be aware, because the answer to your purpose and calling is right in your face. Believe the patterns because they don’t lie.

Patterns will tell you how lost you are and how close you are to your major breakthrough and greatest blessing. Know who you are and what your life means to you. Then PLAN YOUR WORK WORK YOUR PLAN: Do this, and you won’t fail. Face your fear and just go. Get off your a$& and just start. I reiterate that you believe in yourself and realize that your idol, favorite celebrity, or success crush is no different from you.

The only thing is, they didn’t stop at just having a dream or desire. DON’T BE WASTED TALENT.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbwt.365?utm_source=qr&igsh=MW1zMXJ6YTE0M2Jubg==
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jaimel.hill1?mibextid=ZbWKwL
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@unclepops?si=lp22S2P82VAty8_O
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/show/0C5omd8YGxhY9fOEjRPkME?si=6alpyjNvQjmcPSVEdRN4pg