Make no mistake about it, just because T.D. Jakes is a devote man of God doesn’t mean he’s prohibited from getting his entrepreneur on. And indeed he has made the most with what he has been provided.
Today (Oct. 12), the man turned entrepreneur turned preacher stopped by The Breakfast Club to talk about how he got into the church, he and his wife betting the farm on themselves, and why he’s not in a hurry to work with the Honorable Louis Farrakhan.
Here are the 10 things we learned from Bishop T.D. Jakes on The Breakfast Club.
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1. Role Model
The Bishop says his father started his business with “a mop and a bucket, that’s it, and ended up with 52 employees and 10 trucks back in the 60’s.” That’s where he got his hustling spirit from. Respect.
2. Finding Faith
T.D. says the reason he took his faith so seriously was because he got to a point where “it was a choice between blowing my brains out and coming to God” after his father passed when he was 16-years-old. The need for “fathering” led him to immerse himself in his faith.
3. Been In The Game
For those thinking that the preacher is banking off his religious following, T.D. says he had T.D. Jakes Enterprises before he had the church.
4. Self Investment
Because they couldn’t find a publisher for their book Woman, Thou Art Loosed, the Bishop and his wife took their life savings to self-publish their project and have since sold five million copies. Them publishers must feel like DJ Self right now.
5. Oprah
He would go to Oprah for advice about when he had his daytime talk show the TD Jakes Show.
6. Farrakhan
One of the reasons T.D. hasn’t come together with someone like the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is because “theologically we would be on different pages” even though on “community issues we would be on the same accord because we got the same community issues to fight.”
7. A Man Before Anything
He wants people to see him as a man instead of just a preacher because “I will let you down and you will lock me up if you only see me as a preacher. I was a man before a preacher. I was a person.”
8. Donald Trump
When asked if Donald Trump is the antichrist, the Bishop chuckled before answering “I don’t think so.” We’re wouldn’t say not just yet.
