00:00 What's up GQ?
00:01 I'm Demar Hamlin and these are my essentials.
00:04 Okay, so for this essential right here,
00:16 it's gonna be my snack.
00:17 Them honey buns.
00:20 And me and these honey buns, we go way back.
00:22 These honey buns is definitely number one.
00:25 If you know me, you know.
00:26 Reishi cups, top of the line.
00:28 Been with me since day one, as my mother.
00:32 I call all these right here, my trench chips.
00:35 If you was there, you would know.
00:36 All them corner store runs where mom Dukes
00:39 wants you to go get whatever she want off the menu
00:42 and you come back with no change.
00:44 This is what you spent it on.
00:46 Yes, I love to take care of my body
00:48 and I have a healthy routine of everything I'm doing
00:51 to make sure my body's where I need to be.
00:53 But these snacks have been with me for the longest time.
00:56 (chill music)
00:59 Okay, so this next essential,
01:05 one of the most essential to me,
01:07 is for surely my family.
01:08 In particular, my little brother.
01:10 Actually, let me hit him up right now,
01:12 see if that answer.
01:13 He on his way to football practice,
01:14 so I gotta try to catch up quick.
01:16 - What's up?
01:18 - What's up, bro?
01:19 - What's up?
01:20 - Say what's up.
01:21 - What's up?
01:22 - Let me hit you later after practice.
01:25 Always wanted a little brother in the crib.
01:26 I hated being the only child.
01:28 All the attention, all the pressure,
01:30 all the stress was always on me.
01:32 So I prayed for another sibling.
01:34 He was a big part of my decisions early on in his life
01:36 and he still is.
01:37 And I can't wait till, you know,
01:39 10 years from now when I'm done playing
01:41 and I'm at his games, watching him play,
01:44 just as a fan.
01:45 I can't wait to enjoy that part of my life.
01:46 So I got a lot to look forward to.
01:48 (chill music)
01:54 Self-care is like super big into, you know,
01:57 having my mind in the right place.
01:59 You know what I mean?
02:00 We live a high stress level life at this point, you know,
02:02 as an athlete, as an entrepreneur,
02:04 just having those key moments with yourself, you know,
02:07 just getting manicures, getting pedicures,
02:09 whatever it may be.
02:11 It's just small things to take those stress levels down
02:13 within yourself without you even knowing it.
02:16 But on top of that, you know, like daily routine stuff.
02:18 One thing that I do daily is I take my vitamins.
02:21 On top of that, I got my eye patches.
02:23 So kind of, you can see a little bit,
02:25 I got little bags under my eyes.
02:27 That ain't because I'm not getting sleep.
02:29 It's just kind of something that's like hereditary
02:31 in my family.
02:32 The impression I want to give off is, you know,
02:33 I'm alert and I'm ready all the time.
02:35 I don't want nobody thinking I'm slipping or I'm tired
02:37 and I'm, you know, whatever the morning may bring.
02:40 I start my day off 10 minutes a day
02:42 with these things right here.
02:43 (chill music)
02:46 All right, yeah, I think that's about 10 minutes.
02:54 Them things be gone.
02:55 It might be the smallest one of them all,
03:06 but it could be one of the most important, a hair tie.
03:09 Man, one thing about me is it's rare
03:13 when I have my hair down and in my face like this.
03:16 So all day long, I'm like this.
03:19 (chill music)
03:21 On top of that, you know,
03:26 you can style it some different ways.
03:29 You can pick it up.
03:30 You can go here.
03:31 If you're trying to get in that shower or something,
03:34 you want it all off of you, put it up like this.
03:37 Just want a little different look
03:38 for a little time to time.
03:40 Bring them down.
03:42 You switch it up, you know what I mean?
03:44 A hair tie, it'll take you some places
03:47 that you can't go on your own.
03:48 So.
03:49 (chill music)
03:52 So this right here is my clothing line.
04:01 This is Chasing Millions, LLC.
04:03 This is me.
04:04 I started my clothing line in 2017,
04:07 my sophomore year of college.
04:09 This is a piece that I did over the summertime,
04:11 the Chasing Them Scatter hoodie.
04:12 And it just got a bunch of different quotes
04:14 and different logos of mine.
04:16 Some that we scrapped a while ago that we never did
04:19 and some that are our main force.
04:21 One of my favorite lines, man, on here is,
04:23 "You passed me up, now I'm a superstar."
04:25 This is my kind of for-profit,
04:27 but alongside this, I have a nonprofit
04:31 that I started as well, the Chasing Them Foundation.
04:33 This past year, we started our CPR tour
04:35 where we went to Buffalo twice,
04:38 Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, you know, all in one year.
04:41 Short year, very little time to, you know,
04:43 really truly make a difference,
04:44 but we're already planning for 2024
04:47 and just trying to make it an epic year
04:49 as far as just making the CPR awareness so big.
04:54 You know, not everybody will be in a situation
04:56 that I was in, protected with a thousand,
04:59 you know, professionals around, you know,
05:02 so many people that's well-equipped for a moment like that.
05:05 The clothing means a lot to me,
05:06 but the foundation is truly a special place in my heart.
05:09 No pun intended.
05:10 [upbeat music]
05:13 And you know I can't go too far without my JGs, man.
05:20 My John Geigers.
05:21 These right here, something special to me, man.
05:24 This is not only a designer,
05:26 this is a brother of mine, a truly close friend,
05:30 someone that's from the same neighborhood I am,
05:32 so, you know, he truly understand what it takes
05:35 to make it out of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
05:37 These are a shoe that I wear anywhere
05:39 and I get compliments on.
05:40 If they don't know, they wanna know like, "What's that?"
05:43 [upbeat music]
05:45 My collab with Beats that I gave my teammates,
05:52 they got the three on the side,
05:53 with love from D-Ham, three on the side,
05:55 all white period, that's, you know,
05:57 we just rocking all white, you know.
05:59 Music is just a way that you can express yourself
06:01 without even saying much.
06:03 I kinda always been like a more so quiet kid growing up,
06:07 like I was just more so reserved and to myself,
06:09 but, you know, I would post music on my story
06:11 and that's how I would like express
06:13 what I was feeling in the moment
06:14 or what I was going through at the time.
06:16 To fast forward to now, you know,
06:18 having my own Apple Music playlist,
06:19 you could truly get my vibe off of listening
06:22 to that playlist and things that,
06:25 that means something to me from there.
06:27 [upbeat music]
06:35 My most important essential,
06:37 my daily devotionals and the man above.
06:41 I have this one, this is Jesus Listens.
06:43 It has a, you know, a verse,
06:46 a nice little short reading for each day,
06:50 you know, and it has some small verses with it.
06:53 This is something that when I came across it,
06:55 you know, it changed my life.
06:57 It's a book called "Move"
06:59 and it says, "A guide to get up and go forward."
07:02 And that's pretty much really what it does, you know,
07:05 it just, it gives you different ways to operate
07:07 and it gives you action plans
07:09 of how to go about your business.
07:11 [upbeat music]
07:14 Q-tips, man, I can't make it through it
07:20 like a day without these.
07:22 Like, if you know me, like I'm always itching my,
07:25 like throat, I'm scratching my ear.
07:28 I don't know what it is, I got bad allergies or something,
07:31 but it might be hereditary from my mom.
07:34 I'm blaming her.
07:35 Nothing gets that spot like a Q-tip,
07:37 you know what I'm saying?
07:38 So all my friends, they clown me for it,
07:40 they laugh at me about it.
07:42 They'll hear me making noises,
07:45 trying to get that spot 'cause I'm going through it.
07:47 I'm stressing, like, I'm stressing.
07:50 But like my closest friends know,
07:52 they know like this is one thing that,
07:54 this is like my weird essential.
07:57 This is my weird essential 'cause I need it.
08:00 [upbeat music]
08:03 [upbeat music]
08:05 My next essential,
08:06 man, these things, these two things right here
08:11 are like my life.
08:13 So this is my personal number.
08:14 This here is like kind of more so business-y.
08:17 Just having two phones,
08:18 it kind of helps me separate the worlds a little bit
08:20 and you know, to where, you know,
08:22 business can be business and personal can be personal.
08:25 You won't catch me nowhere without these.
08:26 If I don't got my phones on me, something wrong.
08:28 But my last essential, my wallet,
08:31 Louis V, blue crocodile joint.
08:34 It was a gift from a very special person.
08:37 I ain't got no cash in here.
08:38 I got them cars though.
08:40 I got my mom's credit card on me.
08:43 I think I've had it for a very long time.
08:45 I don't know why, but I still got my mom's credit card.
08:48 So I might have to run her a little tab up.
08:51 Thanks for watching.
08:52 I really appreciate it.
08:54 I hope through my essentials,
08:55 you learned a little bit more about me.
08:58 And forever keep chasing them, man.
09:00 Keep chasing the millions.
09:01 Let's go.
09:02 (upbeat music)
09:04 (electronic music)
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