In this podcast episode, the host introduces the guest, Raul T. Pereyra, and mentions that he is the founder and CEO of RTP Learning. Raul shares a brief background about himself, mentioning his work in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and his passion for helping others. He also mentions that he is offering a free handout and 30 minutes of consultation on career and personal coaching. The host encourages listeners to reach out to Raul and mentions that their connection through the podcast will generate charitable dollars for Still Serving Incorporated, a nonprofit making a difference in Pitt County, North Carolina.
Meet the Guest: Raul T. Pereyra
Raul Pereyra is not just a successful entrepreneur, but also a dedicated advocate for positive change in the lives of individuals and communities. With a background in DEI work, he has made it his mission to break down barriers and create inclusive spaces where everyone can thrive.
During our conversation, Raul shared some insights into his journey and how it has shaped his approach to personal and professional development. His belief in the power of mentorship, coaching, and education as tools for transformation is at the core of RTP Learning's mission.
One exceptional aspect of Raul's commitment to our listeners is his offer of a free handout and 30 minutes of consultation on career and personal coaching. This is a fantastic opportunity to tap into his wealth of knowledge and experience to help you navigate your own path to success.
But that's not all. We're taking it a step further. For every listener who connects with Raul through this podcast, we will be contributing to Still Serving Incorporated, a nonprofit organization making a meaningful impact in Pitt County, North Carolina. Your simple action of reaching out will generate charitable dollars that go towards supporting their noble cause.
🔐Key Takeaways:
- Gratitude: We express our sincere thanks for your continued support and encourage you to share the podcast with your network while leaving ratings and reviews.
- About the Guest: Our guest, Raul T. Pereyra, is the founder and CEO of RTP Learning, with a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work.
- Free Consultation: Raul generously offers a free handout and 30 minutes of consultation on career and personal coaching, providing you with a unique chance to unlock your potential.
- Charitable Impact: Your connection with Raul through this podcast will contribute to Still Serving Incorporated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making a difference in Pitt County, North Carolina.
👉Discussion Points:
1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Raul's extensive background in DEI work positions him as an authority on the subject. We will explore the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in today's world, both in workplaces and in society at large. What are the tangible benefits of fostering a diverse and inclusive environment, and what steps can individuals and organizations take to achieve these goals?
2. Personal and Professional Development
Raul's dedication to personal and professional growth is evident in his work. We'll dive into the strategies and practices that can help individuals unlock their full potential. How can coaching and mentorship play a pivotal role in shaping one's career and personal life? What are the key principles behind successful personal and professional development?
3. Giving Back: Still Serving Incorporated
We will explore the incredible work being done by Still Serving Incorporated in Pitt County, North Carolina. How does charitable giving and community involvement align with personal and professional growth? What motivates individuals and organizations to give back to their communities, and how can listeners get involved and make a positive impact in their own localities?
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Mario P. Fields:
Welcome back to unarmor talk podcast. Thank you so much for listening and watching each episode and continue pleased to share with your friends and family members and colleagues, and don't forget to leave a rating or review if you feel this is a awesome show. And you can connect to all of my social media on the parade deck Just look in a show notes or you can put in the search engine Mario P Fields parade deck and get all access To my social media. Well, let's get ready to interview another guest who is willing to remove their armor to help other people. Welcome back to unarmor talk podcast. Everyone is good to see. Why you can't? I can't see y'all, but I hope it's good for you all to see me and, of course here this deep voice not to matching the body, of course, on audio. And today we have another Amazing, inspirational guest who I could chop it up talk to. Forever we have been raw old tea potato. What's going on, my friend?
Raul T. Pereyra:
Oh man, it's my honor to be here. I am so excited to be in your presence and and just see how we can chop it up.
Mario P. Fields:
Yeah, yeah, but you guys know the deal. Before I get to the, the professional introduction and let's get into the topic again, continue to share, subscribing that YouTube channel. Get on that playlist or check out the other videos on that channel. On my YouTube channel, putting the search engine, sergeant, major, mario P Fields, youtube, it all. Come up and get on the parade deck, follow me on all my socials on the parade deck. Check out that Instagram, your mama, graham, tick tock, big talk, whatever you want to call it. We're on social media to make a positive impact in the world. And then, last but not least, thank you guys for just watching, sharing, leaving comments, because every time you do anything on audio or video it generates charitable dollars to still serving Incorporated, my nonprofit that's making a world of a difference in Pitt County, north Carolina. Go to wwwsteelservinginkcom to learn more. Let's get ready for this golf tournament coming up in 20 24. So again, done with that. Happen stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, everyone get out of your seats, get your hands together. You got the founder and CEO of RTP learning and he does a lot more, and he has done a lot in his previous professional journey All focused on helping people. What's going on, rob? I'm a real big fan of the game.
Raul T. Pereyra:
I'm a real big fan of the game, so I'm a full team for that. Wow, mario, thank you for that Awesome intro.
Mario P. Fields:
I feel like I need to go put on my cape and start flying. My brother, I am good, I am blessed man. Man, people don't know man. I was like it's gonna be hard for me to keep this thing. You were just a little bit about you much you know about yourself.
Raul T. Pereyra:
Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, mario. I appreciate that. So my name is Raul T Pareda, founder of RTP learning, comm, andi Empower socially conscious leaders just like you with DEI based Leadership skills, and DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. So my world and my background really has been as an educator, a facilitator, a trainer and HR and a DEI practitioner. Really a lot of my work has been in human resources. I'm a consultant, life changer, and I do a lot of great coaching and support for people like you and I just enjoy helping people. I think Once I found, I figured out I don't want to say the meaning of life, but once I figured out what is meaningful for me, it really created a purpose in life. And now I'm just giggling silly because I'm happy. I'm happy all the time and the I wish I put out discovered you know the secret to life. You know, 20, 30 years ago, when you know misery was, was a rap, you know had a tight grip on me. But you know, here I am today to be of service, to support, if anything. Just remember that I am the person who likes to help other people.
Mario P. Fields:
I love it and you guys heard it RTP learningcom. Go to his website. And also the good man he is, he would like to offer what some? Some free uh Raoul service yes.
Raul T. Pereyra:
Yes, you know, so we, we can put a link or you know we, I have a handout, a PDF on on um. What I call is like stop chasing ideals. You know, when you start start to chase an ideal, you kind of lose yourself. You become frustrated because you compare yourself against an ideal and that's not good Right. So a better way is to uh ground yourself in in reality. So I have that handout and I'm uh giving away 30 minutes of consultation on career advice, career coaching, personal coaching. So folks can send me an email, raoul at RTP learningcom, and just say, hey, I, I listened to you. You said you were giving away 30 minutes of career advice or coaching. Can we set something up? I'm going to say, absolutely, let's do this.
Mario P. Fields:
That is cool and everyone. When you guys send that email cause I know you will, please let them know that you guys got it from this podcast. So we know that on Armour Talk is producing some connections pro bono too, by the way, cause I know Raoul he's out in California I want to say so you know that 30 minutes probably about $5,000.
Raul T. Pereyra:
It has to keep up with the rate of inflation. And housing man, Of course.
Mario P. Fields:
Let's jump right into it. You mentioned trying to fit in, you know, chasing a dream. From my basic understanding, the Raoul we see today wasn't this way years ago, where the you believe, from my basic understanding, the world turned because of you.
Raul T. Pereyra:
It still does, my brother, what are you talking about? No, you know what. As many as a young man growing up in East Los Angeles, right, you know you want to be part of the cool club, you want to fit in, you want to be long. It's human nature. So, yeah, I was part of that cool club. You know you and I were talking about earlier how we're into techno music, house music and electronic music right Back in the day, that kind of stuff, right? So for me I was like that kid. I grew up in Los Angeles. You know you think about Los Angeles, you think about Hollywood, right, all the crazy vibe there and I don't want to shoot down my hometown. But you know a lot of that stuff is really fake, right? Or it's based on ideals, right? You see these movie stars and you see these performers. You know the ballers and the rappers and all that great. You know good for them. That is awesome. But to a kid looking up to them, you know life is, you know NWA, right? You know life ain't nothing but that money. And I don't mean any disrespect, but that's what it is. When a kid is looking up to your idols or your superstars, you're like shoot, I want to be like them, I want to chase that. I want that money, I want that power, I want that fame, I want to be surrounded by beautiful women as well. So there I was. You know that mindset early on, in junior high, I guess, when puberty kicks in, right, junior high and high school man, I took it to the next level, where you know house parties, music, DJing and all this other you know behavior that probably most of not that I'm a parent I would not approve, right, you know, of my children engaging in. But nonetheless I was. I was thriving in my mind, right, whether it was in reality or not, but I was thriving because I suddenly felt like I belonged and I suddenly felt like I was accepted and and and therefore shit, the world revolved around me. So, yeah, that is pretty, pretty powerful. You know what I mean. That's powerful, right there.
Mario P. Fields:
And you and you know, and I'm listening to you, and, and, and I believe there are a lot of not just kids too, but adults who want to just fit in with social media, whatever you know. Hey, I'm accepted into this group right Of people with millions of dollars, or I'm a business owner and we finally, you know, grossed a hundred thousand a year. At what point did you realize, man? I don't even know who the heck I am.
Raul T. Pereyra:
You know what it happened, maybe in a couple of phases, right, because true transformations don't happen overnight, right? So the first kind of wake up call slam in my face was this man, I didn't graduate from high school.
Mario P. Fields:
What.
Raul T. Pereyra:
I didn't.
Mario P. Fields:
It's. That's why I like doing this, because I learned so much about the get I would have never. Raul man, I'm looking on your LinkedIn profile.
Raul T. Pereyra:
I don't know. You know exactly right. So part of that LinkedIn profile is that professional persona to fit into the LinkedIn ecosystem. Right, here we're taking off our armor, we're being real about the situation and and I think it's relevant to talk about that those kinds of setbacks right, especially on this podcast Shoot, I was depressed. I saw all of my good friends going to prom and shoot dude. I was like I didn't go to prom, you know there provide security. Yeah, I was trying to sneak in and drinking a 40 answer in the parking lot. Underage drinking, Talk about that right You're brown back before you had a brown, exactly right, and that that that was pretty depressing. That was pretty depressing. It was a chemistry class that I did. I got a D, I think, and I begged my teacher and she was like no, you know, would you I can't? So I got, I did receive my general ed at junior college. A year later, you know, I took astronomy at night class and and I, you know, I went back when I got my transcript and then they say, okay, you know, you, you, you, you fulfilled the physics I think it was called physical sciences requirement for graduation. Man, that just put me on cloud nine. So that was my first kind of wake up call what the F am I doing with my life? And it was pretty powerful. And then my journey began soon after.
Mario P. Fields:
Wow, and here it is. Like you said, you're fitting in East LA, getting it in clubs, DJ party and everybody's like Ron, who did you have a nickname?
Raul T. Pereyra:
No, no, I didn't actually. I didn't have a nickname. No, no, that's just.
Mario P. Fields:
RT, baby RT.
Raul T. Pereyra:
I know RT, right, my close friends you know, and people was like RTP, right and really quick, rtp is Raul Torres Pereira. My mom, immigrant Mexico, came to this country in labor. The nurse asked her, or after baby, you know, baby's born. She asked my mom, hey, do you have a middle name for your son? And she's like, yeah, torres. And then she realized after the paper's been filed, she goes, oh shoot, I thought I thought she was asking me for my maiden name. So my mom's last name is Torres maiden name, right, exactly, brother. So it was so cute, it's so funny. So so when I heard that story growing up, I started like I was just Raul Pereira growing up. And now I'm like no, that's a beautiful story, that's, I'm gonna honor my mom's mistake, or not even mistake, just miscommunication, right, Spoke Spanish and the nurse spoke English. So my mom's maiden name is my middle name, so it's Raul Torres Pereira. So it's so funny. Anyways, that's a side note there.
Mario P. Fields:
Hey man, that's actually pretty cool. But so now you know no nickname, so now you accept it. You know you get that first slap in the face. You watch all the people clubbing with you Totally. Yeah. So now when, at the second time, when the second kind of slap, you know proverbial slap, in the face.
Raul T. Pereyra:
Well, it was now okay, so that was a negative situation, right. And then I believe in the experience can either be what you make out of it, right, and back then it was for sure negative and I was so depressed and upset with myself and then I did something radically crazy that many friends can attest to and family members as well. I cut off 90% of my friends. I just radically I said, screw it. I was 18 years old, going to junior college, you know, 18, 19, right around there, and I began to develop new friendships. So it was that transformation of cutting, you know, having that foresight or that insight that tell me who you are and I'll tell you. You know, tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are. Well, shoot, I don't want to be that party. You know that, that clubber that you know, there in East LA there's this, there was a I don't know if it's still there famous club called QC's quiet canon in Mount of Valo and all the Latino folks you know from East LA right there. That's like the hotspot Thursday nights, you know, friday, saturday, sunday. So, yeah, I was there Thursday, friday, saturday and Sunday and I was there once I was in, like you know, 18 over 18 or actually that's 21 and over. But the point I'm trying to share with you is that I I don't know what told me, but I was, I was here, it is man I was disgusted with myself. I was having a lot of self hatred. I didn't blame the friends, but I knew that if I kept hanging out, I'll be continue to do bad choices. You know, drinking, underage drinking and and just parting it up. And part of that was trying to get away from my family situation. You know, I was out Thursday, friday, saturdays and Sundays. My mom used to worry about me all the time but I just laughed it off because, you know, my dad's an alcoholic and and my mom gave, gave, my mom gave us mixed feelings. You know, like I would imagine many of us do, where, like, oh, you know, yes, I know he's bad, but he's your father, I'm like, screw that, you know, screw that. So I think the second part was at junior college understanding that whole family dynamics, knowing that it took a step to cut off 90% of my friends or the majority of my friends, and developing new friendships. You know that, that, as I found a love for discovery who I wanted to be come. I'm in junior college learning about Chicano studies. So Hispanic American, latino American, mexican Americans, looking at history. I found love with that and I just I never looked back in terms of my greats. I transferred to UC Berkeley, got an undergraduate there in US history. Then I went to UT Austin, got a master's there and US history. But it was always kind of this idea of like, racial formation, love for history, know who you are, where you're coming from, where you're going. Understand these broad strokes of society. What as a nation, how did we get to this point? So, from the individual to the big societal kind of perspective was a big aha moment for me. I'm like, yep, this is what I want to do. I want to exactly.
Mario P. Fields:
And I love how you a couple of things that please don't invoice me for man, but I love how you said show me your friends, show me who you call your friends and let me see who's influencing you by your choice. And then I love how you mentioned how the second one wasn't negative. You looked in the mirror and defined who you were and who you wanted to be Not externally, where these are the type of people professional part of your. I want to be like you were, like well let me find out who. I want to be. And then the nucleus, the foundation of you self-reflecting, making that intentional choice to go inside and then define that and then get comfortable and fall in love with you. Impressive Looking back, raul, looking back at where you were, we'll say, 10 years ago, except what you were 25 now 25?
Raul T. Pereyra:
25, sounds good to me. I think my wife would love it, oh my God, you know.
Mario P. Fields:
But looking back in how you started with trying to belong and fit in and East LA an amazing journey that your mother, my heart's out to your mother, Mr Rez, but I get it right.
Raul T. Pereyra:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, All right good.
Mario P. Fields:
Of course, all right. But and now, today, where you're just making such a positive impact on people worldwide, including Mario P Fields, if you could give one piece of advice, what would you give anybody right now in high school, junior high or even an adult who's trying to be like somebody that's not them?
Raul T. Pereyra:
Well, the piece of advice you know in the last few years has really solidified to this this idea about chasing ideals. You know, keeping up with the Joneses, if you will. Right, we're always defining ourselves via an external right the Joneses, my friends. Right, that influence and whatnot is ideal. Stop chasing the ideal, because you're never going to reach that ideal. It's called an ideal for a reason. Use it as a compass, but don't measure yourself against an ideal. Measure yourself backwards. True goals, true achievements. Look at the goal, break it down into objectives. Right, you know, I was in college when I first learned about goal setting. It was powerful, right, goal to objectives. So that's my advice Stop chasing ideals. It's going to get you nowhere. And I say that with passion because, mario, right, you know, you and I get it right. We have this burning secret in our heart, this desire to tell others and be of service, right, so we're here to serve and support and tell you we're not going to be full of S. Right, we're going to tell you the truth. And the truth is the faster you stop chasing an ideal, the sooner you're going to be grounded in reality. And the reality is measure yourself backwards to true achievements. And that's the advice I would certainly give myself, you know, 10, 20 years ago, because through there is where I found the most happiness. Like I am happy in the moment, I'm not chasing an ideal and delaying my happiness into I reach that ideal. Guess what happens? You're running nuts. We're going crazy because happiness is out there in the future. And if you're chasing that ideal, guess what? You're never going to be happy. That's so much misery in the world because you're chasing an ideal. So stop chasing the ideal, my brothers and my sisters.
Mario P. Fields:
Man, I love it and be happy now. Be happy in a moment. You cannot predict happiness in the future. If you keep chasing, it's like a wild rabbit. You may never, ever get a raw old. I know you are having fun out there in California. I could talk to you all day long, everybody again, don't forget check those show notes and get on raw old website RTP learningcom and email him as well, that again being a show notes, raw old. Thank you so much for blessing. On Armored Talk podcast.
Raul T. Pereyra:
My pleasure and may you all have such a beautiful day. And remember you're on this earth for a small amount of time. The sooner you figure out what your purpose is and meaning, you're going to be just unstoppable.
Mario P. Fields:
And happy too, absolutely.
Raul T. Pereyra:
I love it.
Mario P. Fields:
Man, I love it too, and I love you and your family.
Raul T. Pereyra:
Hey, I love you too. You know what. That's what it is about. You're on the other side of the nation and I'm on California. It's like there's more to life than just looking at the color of my skin or the accent of my voice. It's like like minded people. You connect and you're like shoot, let's do something, let's work on this. So I'm happy to be part of the podcast and part of support you and whatever I can do to support the listeners, because I am the guy who likes to help others. Some people get intimidated, but those who say, hey, you know what, I'm going to take them up on that offer. We become buds because I'm here to help.
Mario P. Fields:
Yeah, I'm here. I got your back where everyone's awesome. You guys know we got to go, but until next time, you know the deal. God bless you. God bless your family members and your friends, and we will see you in a few weeks, or you can hear us. Take care. Thank you for listening to this most recent episode and remember you can listen and watch all of the previous episodes on my YouTube channel. The best way to connect to me and all of my social media is follow me on the parade deck, that is, www.paradedeck.com, or you can click on the link in the show notes. I'll see you guys soon.
