DeVon Franklin

Produced to CarryEverything

I want people to say “I worked with them and that it great—one of the best experiences I've ever had was working with him”. I think that would be awesome.

There's a lot of content out there that's being done in the inspirational/faith-based space. The gap that I'm filling is raising the bar of the quality of that content. I never ever thought about taking on the whole thing at once, always little bites. My next bite was about becoming more experienced so I went to Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures. When I ultimately left there it was about ten years. I gained loads of experience with that would help shape the foundation on which I would need to stand in my future.

If you want to be successful you’ve got to follow the rules. Part of the game is being prepared so even the things that I do now, like running my own company, came from years and years of preparation. If I wanted to do it years ago I wouldn't have been ready to do it. I'm definitely a stickler on preparation because I think that's one of the things thats required in order to be successful. Anything that stands in my way has got to go period…period—even myself has to go because I'm here on assignment to complete a mission and I will not rest until it's done.

When I think of pioneerism—I’ve actually had to blaze trails and I think that part of living a carry everything lifestyle is learning to embrace that idea. I'm doing something that has never been done—it's just never been done, you know, and I love that. I’m bridging the gap between the spiritual and the secular and doing it in the most secular environment on the planet Hollywood. That’s what I'm here to do—I just love the idea of pioneerism it's something that has contributed massively to my carry everything lifestyle because I carry all of these attributes everywhere I go and I can tell you that without them I would not be where I am and I would not be where I'm going so they're very very essential.