Derrick Hayes — founder and CEO of Big Dave's Cheesesteak ranked sixth in American fast casual — sits down with Ray Daniels on the God Show for the most honest raw and unfiltered Black entrepreneurship conversation on YouTube. From selling drugs and getting locked up to learning how to walk again after five back operations to losing almost everything in Atlanta before building one of the fastest growing fast casual brands in American history — Derrick Hayes tells the full story with nothing held back. Derrick Hayes walked into an award ceremony with over forty tattoos on his body and told Tyler Perry he was going to win the number six fast casual ranking before the award was announced. He spoke it before the room confirmed it. He believed it before anyone else did. Because the only difference between where you are and where you want to be is the fire in your belly and the willingness to stay in your garage building master plans while everyone else is trying to be seen. Ray Daniels and Derrick Hayes cover the George Floyd conversation that nobody else on YouTube is willing to have — why the funding after George Floyd went specifically to Black women at the exact moment when uplifting the Black man would have been the most powerful cultural response — and what Derrick Hayes did with that information instead of getting bitter about it. When people called Derrick Hayes Pinky Cole's husband he had one answer for every single person who brought it up. Go look at the Forbes list. His wife is a GOAT. He is a GOAT. And he is completely comfortable in his own skin while building the first African American fast casual brand to reach a billion dollars by 2030. The contractor story. The lights getting cut off with a newborn baby in the house. Coming to Atlanta with settlement money and losing almost all of it. Getting down to ninety six thousand dollars after thinking he had over five hundred thousand. The moment his broker called and told him the number had dropped and something just left his stomach. Every hit. Every loss. Every lesson that nobody teaches Black men before they walk into the rooms that will determine whether they survive or disappear. All of it is covered in full on this episode of the God Show. This is the conversation that every Black man building something needs to watch before he walks into his next investor meeting. Before he lets someone make him feel small for changing. Before he lets the people around him convince him that sitting in his garage thinking about master plans instead of going out to be seen is a problem. It is not a problem. It is the plan. And Derrick Hayes is the proof. This video is for viewers who watch Black entrepreneurship content, Black business motivation, how to build wealth from nothing, rags to riches Black success stories, Black men mental health and accountability, financial literacy for Black communities, fast casual restaurant business content, how to scale a brand to a billion dollars, Black generational wealth building, real talk Black male motivation, Tyler Perry entrepreneurship, InvestFest Atlanta, Pinky Cole entrepreneur content, Forbes Black entrepreneurs, and how to survive failure and rebuild. Watch this episode from beginning to end. Like it. Share it with every Black entrepreneur Black business owner Black man building something or person who needs to understand that financial literacy is the only real difference between the hood and generational wealth. Subscribe to the God Show for more conversations like this every week.