Rochele & Rocky Live on the Blissful Living Show
The Blissful Living Show Going From Negative To Positive Is Possible with Rocky Singh Kandola We have all heard the stories of how people get caught up in a negative lifestyle and get stuck in it. For whatever reason, some people just seemed to be destined to be or stay in a state of negativity and a negative lifestyle. Did you know that there are people that actually make the transition from negative to positive and go on to do great things in life? Did you know that it is actually possible for a felon to change their life around when they discover the true essence of what their life really means? Have you ever had a conversation with a felon that has turned their life around? Are you aware that it happens more often than not but those are the stories will never hear about? Have you ever wondered why we don't hear about those negative to positive stories? Join Rochel Marie Lawson as she chats with Rocky Singh Kandola about his journey from negative to positive and how he hopes sharing his story will help others. Links to Rocky Singh Kandola Website: rockykandola.com/ Facebook: facebook.com/rocky.kandola Instagram: instagram.com/rockykandola/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rockykandola/ Links to Rochel Marie Lawson Website: blissfulliving4u.com Facebook: facebook.com/rochele.lawson.5 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rochelemarielawson Instagram: instagram.com/rochelelawson/ Twitter: twitter.com/rochelelawson/
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
Hello everyone. And welcome to bliss validity. This is the queen of feeling fabulous, Rochelle Marie Lawson. And I have a show that you are just going to want to stick around and listen to tonight before we get started with the guest for today's show. I want to, of course always give you the time to find a place to sit back, relax, get something to write with. You could pay for your favourite beverage, tell your family to give you a few minutes so that you can just enjoy some time to yourself and embrace the information that the guest is going to be sharing with us all today. So I want to say that and make sure you guys have time to get all that. And then also we're going to lead into thanking our sponsor for today's show. Our first sponsor we're going to thank for the podcast is a blissful living for you. And they are a holistic dream lifestyle company that focuses on the pillars of wellness, wisdom, and wealth so that you can step into living the life of your dreams. They have all kinds of specials and products, specials that are coming up and that's her highlighting this month, as well as moving forward. So if you are ready to up-level your wellness, get your mind right, and elevate your wealth. Then I suggest you check out a blissful living for you at blissful living. Then number four, the letter u.com. The next sponsor of the podcast is the telecommunications installation company located in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose. They have been in business going on 31 years and have survived every type of economy that we've had since 1989. And they still have some of their very first customers all these years later that refuse to give their business to anyone else. When it comes to telecom installation and network distribution set up all day, cable incorporated is that company and they make the claims that they make the right connections so that when the customers go to use the telecommunications equipment that we have available to us today to do business across industries, across the state, across the country or the world, that they can connect with that customer on the other end, that very first time they set out to make that connection. So if you are a company, small, large medium-sized business, located in the Western region of the United States and you have a telecommunications Navy, and you want somebody reliable, efficient, effective and gives you great quality. Then you want to check out All Day Cable Inc@ alldaycableinc.com. So now that I've given you a little bit of time to get ready and get situated with just spending a few moments with yourself, let's jump in and let me tell you about today's guest, I guess for today goes by the name of Rocky Singh Kandola is his name, but we call him Rocky. And he is just a very innovative fella. And let me tell you about him. He's 34 years old and he's an Indian businessman born in New York City, but he lives in Los Angeles. So he's, bi-coastal, he owns and runs a showroom in high traffic areas of downtown LA. And he recently upgraded to Beverly Hills, check that out, checks this out. Cause it gets really interesting. He's a felon as well as a philosophy graduate from both the state of Alabama. He spent his high school and nine different facilities, nine different schools and boot camps across the world. Some of which are now closed due to severe child abuse, rape and torture. He's almost died at least seven to eight times and half of his face and jobs are fake from an attempted murder on his life. He's been shot. He's been stabbed, he's been kidnapped. He's been kicked in the face and he's had around 20 major surgeries and in his, excuse me in his adult life and he's been hurt, hurt, hurt, and seeing her up close now, very special young man, very special. Let me tell you more about him. He is loved. He has seen love and he loves, he has amazing friends and families in almost every continent in the world. His business allows him to travel freely and meet amazing people across our planet. He speaks for language and holds a conversation with any man, woman or child in the world. He follows his heart and he lets his guard down with loving people around the world. Without thinking twice he's grown business, he's helped others daily. He works hard. He plays hard and he's learned so much from his past life. And he now was just to help others to do the same. And so I could go on to tell you more about him, but let me just say it is now time to introduce Rocky to the listeners of blissful living. Hey Rocky, how you doing?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
Hey, Hey, Hey, blessed and honoured to be here. Thank you so so much.
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
Well thank you for saying yes and we have an amazing story to share with the world. And so, Hey, I'm giving you that platform to do that. I'm sure others have, but no one can do it like the queen of feeling sad, but I'm just letting you know that.
Rocky Singh Kandola:
Definitely. That's how I love your energy coming on. It's amazing. I'm feeling it over here.
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
Oh, good, good because I'm in Texas and I know you probably are you in LA right now?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
I am in LA right now.
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
Okay. Yeah. Love LA you know, from the bay. So yeah, what can I say, but I want to jump in and just what kind of business are you in? Tell the people out there, what you do, and then we're going to go, we'll backtrack a little bit and tell some more about your backstory, but what type of business are you in?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
Definitely. So I actually am a factory owner I'll have hair extensions, so we do hair extensions, wigs funnels, closures, all type of hairpieces directly from the temples of India. And we mostly sell B2B to business owners. We distributors stylist the stay at homework at home mom everything's from that to you know, full-blown, blown salon. It does, you know, blowouts and all kinds of different you know install for women and men across the world.
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
Wow. So basically the wigs and in the weeds that I would say Cardi and Megan, thee stallion, and some of these other phenomenal artists are wearing quite possibly could have been something that you that may have came from your company quite possible.
Rocky Singh Kandola:
A hundred per cent. I don't, I don't ever reveal clients' names unless they were cool with it. And then that's the way if they are cool, that's all of our Instagram.
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
Yep. I hear you. I get it. I just want to give the audience, you know, so when you see the beautiful women with those beautiful wings they're rocking or beautiful weeds, their hair may have come from Rocky. That's all I'm saying. So now we got that out the way, cause I, you know, piqued the curiosity. You're like, God, this young man has been through a lot. He's a, you know, you've seen a lot yourself alive. And he's learned a lot in, in obviously its transition to having a great business, but tell the listeners like your backstory and what is so intriguing is the fact that you know, you are a felon, I don't want you to go into, because it's nobody's business as to what you did, but as a person that, you know, once you've been deemed a felon, you almost have, I don't know if you've ever read the book school, the Scarlet letter, but you almost, I'll always have some kind of, I hate to say black, but some bad mark that is on you or that follows you around. How did you cope in that very troublesome period in your life and turn it around to something magnificent as to what you're doing today?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
Definitely. So for me, the first part and the largest part and the hardest part was kind of breaking the identity that I had created of, you know, Hey Rocky is that party animal, a convicted felon and has a social stigma on him. And I kind of walked around with that for, you know, quite a while, even as a child, you know, as you said earlier, I was sent to nine different facilities and many of those were boot camps and state schools all around our country, all around the world. So at a young age I started to develop this, you know, this is who I am and you know, as humans, you know, we kind of, our, our egos kind of want us to attach ourselves to some identity out there and then we kind of become enveloped with that. And that was exactly what I was doing. So for me, it actually, didn't start to break that until, till after my prison time and I was out and now I'll kind of dove right back in the same lifestyle almost. And I can, I can only give it up to a higher power. So outside energy to God, you know, whatever, whatever word that you might, you know, resonate with, you call it on those, definitely something. The energy, you know, that came from within me actually, now that I look back, but at that time it just felt like outside. And I made one decision to go ahead and leave the country break ties with all my friends with the homes I had, the drugs I was involved with and I was dealing and I was using as well at that time, everything from addiction to, you know, violence and everything and let it all go and left it behind. And I had no idea what was I going to do? If anything was in the work, I just had this feeling comfortable with me that there something else out there for me, there's something else I can do. And let me go explore that. And that was the first step that was almost eight years ago now that I made that change. I left the country, went to India for a while, lived on the farm with some family friends and you know, it didn't have a cell phone signal. It didn't have access to even the music I was listening to, you know, back then. And just a total disconnect from everything that I knew. I thought that was, you know, reality in my identity. And from there, you know, it's been quite an up and down journey as well. But that really was the starting kind of point and big change factors for me.
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
You know, that's interesting because a lot of times people identify with their hood, so to speak, you know what I mean? And so often it's hard for people. And you know, I grew up in the hood. I, you know, okay, it is what it is, but it's lots of lessons learned, you know, that have helped me to be a very successful person, a business owner. You've learned some really valuable lessons growing up in the hood, but sometimes people can't leave that identity behind and they get caught up and they will go to, I know people that have gone from like where they, you know, the roots are and have relocated across the country or whatever. And they get caught up in this same thing for you by taking yourself. I want to say removing yourself from the essence of the United States and going to India and going to a farm that has to be, you know, at first a very difficult transition because you came from one thing, you know, that's busy, all kinds of stuff going on to something that really made you focus on yourself in, in developing that inner in the spiritual connection. What would you say to someone out there that may be living a life that you weren't living, but really tired of it and really wants to take a step out into something better, but just, they just don't know-how, what would you say to that person?
Rocky Singh Kandola:
Definitely. So, I mean the first step to speak to that person directly, the first step, which is sometimes the hardest. And I mean, for me, it was like, like I said, one of the hardest is wanting, wanting it right. And just to like wanting something different, wanting to be something more wanting to get away and just being sick and tired of living the way you are and then, you know, doing what you're doing and believing that there's something else out there for you. I try to talk to people, you know, my friends and even some family from you know, past lives as well about like, you know, that is still kind of stuck in some things about this stuff. And, you know, they're not receptive to it or open to it. It's usually not a change we're going to make, so that the biggest step once again, is to believe and want that. From there it does a leap of faith. Me leaving the country was one of the scariest things I did at that time because as a kid from 11 to 17, I was sent around by authority figures on my parents. After all, you know, all these different places, I was even sent to India once when I was 11 or 12. And I stayed alone there for six months and went to school. So it was scary for me, to say, okay, Hey dad, I want to leave. And then help me out to go, especially because it was coming from my father. And so my first week there, I remember even like I kind of flipped out on one of my friends were there with me, family, friends. I was like, man, like, did he tell you about this? Like they put me on a one-way ticket, they're trying to send me away again. And I was kind of freaking out. And I had one combo of my dad and he was like, you know, a Rocky, this isn't near to a grown man. Then this isn't like close before four, you made this decision and if you ever want to come back, you can come right back. No one's keeping you there. And when I heard like that and you know, the kind of, I already kind of knew that, but my mind was so used to the old lifestyle and old programming that I kind of like rebelled against it at first. And then once I realized, you know, he's right, this is, this is on me and this is what I want to do, I do believe that I can do something better and different. And I kind of just expanded on that and went from there and the amount of just blessings in so many different forms that have Kevin kind of came to me since then is almost like unreal. People that knew me 10 years ago would just, are still calling me these days now and just like, wow, ''like Rocky, well, what are you doing? I want to know what you're doing''. And that was actually kind of what sparked my interest too, to start speaking about it more openly because I thought that, Hey, if I can, you know, sex on my good friends from back then that are in it. And there's so many, especially in our country, the number of people that you know, are going through the justice system and then until then like they didn't do anything different. They had this, as you were saying, quote-unquote, social stigma on them. You know, I think it's in the millions, if not more than that. So it's very, very high. And I was like, you know, what, if I can start reaching out to some people we can start to slow you know, set, change our society. I think HL Magnum said it. I mean, if you want to know what a society is about and what they're doing, go see how they treat, you know, the lowest level of people, which quote-unquote, is the people incarcerated, sick, mental issues. For me, that was all of the above. And that's I think where like we need to start a lot, but a lot of like attention effort and, and help him through his people that are feeling like that. And you know, for me, as I said, I'm before still, I'm still on that journey. You know, it's up and down. I have days where it's not as easy. I have days where even in the past seven years, I've been tempted to, to kind of look back in that old lifestyle. But one thing, if you're, especially if you're someone that comes from my background, which I'm not shy to say, you know, I had a lot of you know, drugs and violence and selling, and that was what eventually wound me up in prison. If you had that kind of like entrepreneurial hustler spirit inside of you anyway, once you get a taste of the lifestyle that I'm now living is, you know, progressive moving forward, making progress each day trying to help people and touch lives and then just, you know, expand and expand and grow. You don't want to look back as much anymore. You learn from your past, but you want to move forward and you almost like start to become just looking forward each day to see what kind of, what kind of issues life can throw at you and how well you can handle them and deal with them and move on.
Rochelle Marie Lawson:
You know you said something that I think is key. And I think that you know, to our, our brothers and sisters out there, they may be listening to us that may be living in that way, where it type of lifestyle. And I know we all know people that are that way. We love them dearly. That's their life. This is our life. But you said something that I think is powerful. And I think sometimes a lot of people negate that in and I'm going to call it to a very famous rapper who kind of took what you're saying and elevated it tremendously when you're in that lifestyle. And you're hustling and grinding, as we say on the streets, right? When you're hustling and grinding, you're running your business, you're handling your business, you're handling business, right? You're making sure that you know, profits flowing in and, you know, customers are satisfied and marketing efforts are going, you're handling your business. Although it's not a, you know, a business we want to, you know, glamorize or anything, but those key concepts in those key skills that you do when you're doing that, you transcend into being a legitimate business, the hustle and grind don't stop. The game is stil