Hey guys my name's Dave Letele
aka the mighty Brown Buttabean
and my mission in life is
to help people.
My story's a rag's to riches and back to rags again
hopefully my story helps to
inspire you guys lead a righteous life.
So growing up, my life was
I thought it was pretty normal
but it wasn't till later on
in my life that I realised that
a lot of the stuff that was going on wasn't.
Born into a gang family
with my father being the president of the Auckland Mongrel Mob.
A lot of people's parents are,
have trades such as carpentry and plumbing,
well my father's
was a bank robber.
When you're in that environment
and you're stuck at the bottom it's hard to think that
you're ever going to get out of that lifestyle
and sometimes you think maybe I should just
go and sell some drugs, or rob a bank or something.
You know all that ever really does is tear families apart.
My uncle's daughter committed suicide
while he was doing all these things.
You know you do these things to give your kids nice stuff,
uh material things but all
they really want is your time
but you can't give them that.
You know you can have warehouses full of cars
which we did, all the money in the world but
you can never get back the life of your daughter
I was trying to chase the rugby league dream,
I really wanted to be um a rugby league star
and I worked really hard in school and I just
didn't like being poor
and I worked really hard to try and
get out of that lifestyle.
It's different when your father goes to jail
when you're 5 you don't really understand
so but when he goes to jail when you're
20 you definitely understand and you understand
the repercussions and the consequences
for your family, for your mum and your sisters
and I just got really angry
sort of acted out and I quit uni,
I quit my job and I started
living with my cousins selling tinnies
and just started living a really bad lifestyle
and one night I got really drunk
and stabbed myself and that's um
that's what happened.
But that's what alcohol can do
so that's why I don't drink anymore
because nothing good really comes from it
and I was just very lucky that it didn't hit anything major.
But it was a wakeup call.
Sitting on the back doorstep of this tinnie
house and thinking "man how did my life
end up this way" you know
and you're stuck in a rut and for a lot of people it's hard
to get out of.
It's hard for everyone to get out of that rut
you're stuck in it.
But you just have to work really hard
and you have to want to get out of it.
The lifestyle is glamourized
and kids wanna be that with the gold chain
and all the money
and all the girls and the car.
When you get caught and you go to jail,
none of those people come and visit you, none of
those people feed your family,
that part of it's never shown, that part of the lifestyle
it's only the glamourous sides shown.
I didn't go down the same path
as my family did when I was young
but I went down it when I was older.
It all came to head when I had a gun pointed
at my head you know over
um living a bad lifestyle
with drugs and alcohol.
I should definitely be in jail or dead,
one of the two
always maintain that so um because
I'm not, I feel like I'm blessed
and I need to be able to, if people ask I'm going
to share my story
to hopefully help others not go down that same path.
So now uh I just dedicate my life to helping people.
I run community boot camps
all across South and West Auckland,
spreadin g out to Hamilton
pretty much just wanna spread the BBM movement
so I call it Buttabean Motivation
and its just a uh its more than a boot camp,
it helping people not just with physical fitness but
mental fitness
through all their struggles in life, alcohol, drugs.
You know we're probably helping at our boot camp
close to 1000 people a week all across
New Zealand.
What I say is no excuses,
it's my mantra my life is no excuses.
Don't let where you come from
and your situation that you're in
be an excuse for you to just
go down that same path, break the cycle.
You can do it, don't let anyone tell you
that you can't get out of the gutter.
Don't ever let anyone tell you
that you're just going to become a drug dealer
or become an alcoholic that beats your wife
or does stupid stuff.
You can do anything that you put your mind
to if you work hard.
It's not easy, no ones going to give it to you.
You have to be willing to put the hard work in
and that's all it is
anything is possible
with hard work.
I never would have thought I'd be here talking
to you guys 3 years ago
you know but through hard work
here I am.
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