Mickey Blackburn (aka McBlax)

"Aloha, Guten Tag, G'Day, Konichiwa, Zdrastvwetye, Shalom and Marhaba. My name is Mickey Blackburn and I am the author and creator of McBlaxRoadtoFreedom and a contributor to mlmgoldmine.com"
If you were attracted to my page and are anything like me you love traveling, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures; and you dont like being stuck or tied down by a job or financial hinderances.
That's why I created McBlaxRoadtoFreedom, and am constantly working and developing multiple sources of income. I am on a mission, not only to continue this for myself, but to help guide and teach family, friends and anyone who comes into contact with me the importance of regaining control of their own future and dreams and using that as a testimony for others! I'll get into that later. First let me tell you a bit about myself.
I am a Traveler, Sailor, Assistant Maitre D', Neo Hippy (as some would call me), and Entrepreneur, and many other things all wrapped up into one masterfully created human being.
On a personal note, I have had only one girlfriend/relationship. After that 2 year experience, I realized I should really focus on discovering, empowering, and developing myself before I even think about looking for a partner/soulmate. The better I know myself and develop myself, the better a match I can attract.
If you're reading this and think you have to have a boyfriend/girlfriend, or are in love with Love (like I used to be) let me encourage you to focus on finding out who you really are, and empowering and developing yourself. Doing that has helped me more than words can express.
Well, I was born at the UCLA Medical Center in Westwood in 1982. This is why my father, being USC Alumni, has despised me since I was born. How could a Trojan spawn a baby Bruin? Just a joke. Don’t worry my father’s USC friends still talk to him. It’s all in good fun.
Anyway, I was raised in various parts of L.A. and exposed to a lot of different cultures and people from all over the world. It can be hard finding your true self growing up in a huge city like L.A. But I had a strong and loving family that supported me. I have had almost every haircut/style known to man. I even passed my U.S.History class in 11th grade by giving myself a Mohawk.
Throughout high school I skateboarded in most of my free time and frequently when I should have been doing homework. I still managed to graduate with a 3.4 GPA, but I don’t think that that is saying much especially the way public education is going.
My family (Irish-Swedish-German-Russian) didn’t have wealth, but we never went hungry. I don’t ever remember taking a family vacation. That fact, along with having grown up being exposed to all sorts of cultures, and always seeing my friends vacation pictures, fueled my passion for traveling and experiencing cultures, people and places.
Well, my first traveling experience happened right after I lost my grant/scholarship from Point Loma Nazarene University in winter 2001. That will happen when you live in Young Hall and surf more than study. I didn’t necessarily want to go back to live with my parents and face their disappointment and anger, so I moved up to my older sister’s place in Beaverton, Oregon (just outside Portland).
I could probably write a couple of books or create a mini-series about the 3 years that followed. But I will give you the Ultra condensed cliff note version.
When I settled into my sister’s place I went out and got a job as a host and busser at T.G.I.Fridays (anybody heard of it?). While working there I was attending Portland Community College (Rock Creek and Sylvania campuses). I still had the notion in my head that I just was supposed to go to college, even though I had no clue what I wanted to get out of it. A couple of things I really got into were Improv comedy, and learning Russian.
Then I started working for my brother-in-law as his Senior Manager. He had quit his job at Intel and, with his severance package, bought 6 bouncy castles, a petting zoo, and an exotic reptile store to pursue a more fun filled career. I tried to do it all, which was a bit overwhelming, and eventually got fired from Friday’s for being late too many times.
Then I just focused on the entertainment gigs. It was fun I got to set up parties all over the NW, and freak everybody out with all the reptiles, holding tarantulas, and sticking scorpions in my mouth. I developed a fondness for my no legged and multi-legged friends. And most people think that they have no personalities. I beg to differ; you just have to know what you’re looking for.
Things were good for awhile, except being in NW traffic everyday. But then my brother-in-law and I butted heads and he fired me and kicked me out of the house. Luckily, I had been frequenting a hookah lounge down on the Willamette River. I knew the owner and he liked me so he let me work “under the table”. I would dress up like Aladdin, make and serve everyones hookah, dance, make Turkish coffee and lamb shawarma, and sing or speak whatever Arabic the guys would teach me. Most of the time I was the only non-middle eastern person in the building.
During this time I would work at Hush Hush (the hookah lounge) during the day and sleep under Burnside Bridge at night.
One great thing about this was that I had befriended the manager of a Pizza Schmizza a couple of doors down and we traded hookah for pizza. He would come over and smoke whenever he wanted to and I would get all the leftover pizza at the end of every night. Sometimes he would give me as much as 4 boxes of pizza, and every night I was able to share a feast with all my homeless friends under the bridge.
Soon I also got a job carpet cleaning all the McMenamins in the area. Now I didn’t have to worry about sleeping under the bridge anymore because I was carpet cleaning all night long.
Then I found a classified ad for a wait staff position aboard a paddle-wheel cruise ship that cruised the Columbia, and went to Alaska in the summer. I ended up getting hired. I didn’t have much waiting experience but the employer hired me because he liked how hard I worked and that I worked a lot of hours. The job was 4 weeks living and working aboard the boat, then 2 weeks vacation. With the money I was making I was able to travel and visit friends and family. But the 4 weeks aboard was intense. Imagine working, eating, sleeping, and living in a restaurant with the same people day after day.
At the end of that year I served and became friends with a woman who owned a restaurant on Orcas Island, which is in the San Juan island chain, off NW Washington. She offered me a job and I took her up on it the following summer. I worked at her place and lived in a little bungalow she had set up on her back lot. It was very Spartan (sleeping on the floor, showering outside, etc.) but I enjoyed it and the beauty of the island.
Living on the island I was introduced to organic and sustainable agriculture, met some very knowledgeable people and dove into health, nutrition and eco-friendly practices. Since then I choose to: only eat and support organic foods, take high quality supplements (because with the deterioration of the earth you cant get what the body needs from just eating), and done whatever I can to only have a positive affect on our planet and its environment.
I believe we are all stewards. We are stewards of our bodies, minds and spirits, and stewards of the Earth. And that taking care of and loving you is the first step to caring for and loving others.
From Orcas Island I went back south to San Diego and moved in with my best friend. I got back into school at Mesa Community College and got a job at a nice hotel restaurant in La Jolla on Prospect, right next to the ocean. I discovered that I wanted to study Korean and found that the University of Hawaii at Manoa would be the best choice for that major.
Then out of nowhere my friend Sarah calls me up and tells me she just got hired with NCL America and is working on the ships out in Hawaii and that I should apply and she would give me someone’s name to use as a reference. This was too perfect! I could work aboard the ship, save money for a year, and then I would be a Hawaiian resident and be able to save tons of money on tuition. Like most I glamorized working on a cruise ship in Hawaii.
So I got the job in January 2006 and amazingly that May I met the owner of the Korean restaurant I frequented when we were anchored off Kona. I shared with him my desire to learn Korean and my dream to go there when I went on vacation. He made a phone call and BAM! I had a place offered to me for 4 weeks absolutely free.
Going to Korea that summer was awesome. It was life changing. I realized, while I was there, that “This is what I want to do!! I want to travel everywhere! I want to meet amazing people and share stories with them”, and I didn’t want to keep trading my life and my time for little glimpses and teasers of what I really wanted to do with traveling and learning. That’s why I started to walk down the Road to Freedom.
Right now I am still employed with NCL America. I am working aboard the Pride of Hawaii as an Assistant Maitre D’ (I got a promotion back in September) and it is not like what most people think it’s like working on a cruise ship in Hawaii. Like I said earlier I glamorized it too. Let me just paint a quick picture of part of what it is really like.
Imagine waking up to your alarm clock at 5 am groggily rolling out of your bunk because you got to bed late. You then squeeze by your three other cabin mates to get to the shower. The whole time you are in the port-a-potty sized bathroom your cabin mates are knocking on the door and telling you to hurry so they can use the bathroom so they aren’t late to work.
Then you put on your uniform, go up to deck 12 to work the buffet at 6 am. Don’t forget to put on your smile even though the doors just opened for passengers to come eat breakfast and 6 of your staff haven’t shown up yet, the cooks haven’t made enough eggs, coffee isn’t ready because the person you asked to start brewing the coffee, 15 minutes ago, comes up to you and says they are back from the restroom, and there isn’t enough orange juice to make it through the morning (or the rest of the cruise) because of an error in the ordering department.
So you manage to make it through a morning of passengers blaming and complaining to you about the food, the temperature of the room, the rocking of the ship, the staff, not having enough coffee or orange juice and the weather. You make it through disappearing bussers, hung-over waiters, and staff constantly complaining to you about how hard they work and how tired they are. Now you get to relax…for an hour and a half before going to deck 6 and doing it all over in the restaurant for lunch.
Then you get a real treat and get 2 hours to relax until dinner time. Then you put on your tuxedo and smile, go to the restaurant and enjoy 5-6 hours of burnt out servers, complaining guests, angry chefs, vulgar dishwashers, and lazy bussers. After the dinning room is clean and everyone is gone you go do some paperwork for the day, go straight to your bunk and fall asleep around 1am. Why is it like this?
Because everyone works 10-16+ hours a day for 140 days straight, no days off. If you are lucky and get a breakfast shift off, you don’t get to sleep in because your other three cabin mates are so noisy in the morning while they’re getting ready for work it wakes you up.
Sure you’re in Hawaii, but you only get to see it out the windows of the ship, or at best if you get a couple hours off you could run ashore real quick and pretend you’re on vacation for a couple of hours, to keep your sanity. All this for 140 days without a day off. Then you are rewarded with 35 days off to actually live life. So for approximately 295 days out of the year this is my life, or lack thereof.
All of that changed when I came across an all organic complete liquid nutritional supplement! I wasn’t even looking for it, I just attracted it and through discovering it I also discovered THE SECRET.
When I came to my parent’s place in, Southern California, for my 35 days off my dad was drinking some exotic fruit juice and was spending around $120 a month for it. He was really excited about the juice so I told him I would check it out and see if it stood up to my high standards. The first thing I did was spin the bottle around and look at the listed ingredients.
I confirmed what I thought all along. He was spending way too much money for juice. Apple juice, pear juice, and grape juice and water were the main ingredients in this bottle. It wasn’t organic and it was packed full or sugary juices.
I told my dad I would go online and find more info to convince him. After spending a little time online I came across an all organic food based nutritional supplement. Not only was it a very complete supplement, it was liquid too. I was very impressed right away with this product. I knew my dad would be too, because not only did it have a more potent supply of the exotic juice he was drinking, it had 12 vitamins, 65 minerals, aloe vera, green tea and was all organic. And to top it all off it was much more inexpensive than the juice.
Not being one to ever rush into things I investigated further into this company, its product and its opportunity. After some deliberation I gave the company’s main office a call and requested to get in contact with someone to speak with in person. The closest person I got was 3 hours away in Carlsbad. I thought about it for a couple days then made that drive the day after Super bowl. I am so very glad I did.
That first step, just driving to talk with someone, began a rapid, positive change in my life and the lives of those close to me. Not only has the opportunity allowed me to make more money this month than the amount I had received from the ship in the past three months combined, it has helped me get more restful nights sleep, not experience lags of energy during the day, and significantly reduced an eczema outbreak I had on my hands.
My mother and aunt have both told me that since using the product, they don’t experience their menopausal problems nearly as frequently or as intense. My father tells me he feels more energetic and alert during the day, more so than he was feeling with the juice.
My older sister tells me she can run again and not have any joint pain, this allows her to play with her children and not be in pain. My younger sister tells me that she doesn’t have to take 5 or more Advil to help cope with her menstrual periods. And even my friend Sean told me that he doesn’t drink his usual 4-5 Red-bulls and Rockstars during the day anymore and he feels healthier and more energized with what I shared with him.
I have always tried to educate friends and family about proper nutrition, eating organically and supplementing, but a lot of times they either didn’t care or where turned off by how “disgusting” some of the things I shared with them were. So I am glad I have found something that they actually enjoy.
I am so glad that my path has gone this way, because like I mentioned earlier, through this product and its company I was introduced to the DVD THE SECRET. Just that in itself would have made it all worth while. My family and I now think and view things in a whole new light. We are all happier and healthier and find joy in every day. I am so blessed that I found an Alternative to trading my life and time working for a giant “floating” corporation.
My interests and creativity were peaked and I began searching online for ways of generating multiple sources of income. I realized that one should not work to earn money. They should work for gratification. Jack Canfield and Bob Proctor revealed this to me. There are plenty of ways of earning money.
I realized I didn’t have to keep wasting my time listening to complaints like; “I didn’t order this!”, “What’s taking so long?!”, ”I said NO lemon in my water!”, ”I hate my job!”, or ”I know you’ve been closed for an hour but can I get one more glass of wine?” in order to earn money. I mean really who wants that?
So that is why I created this Myspace page. The things I discovered and was attracted to positively altered my life, body and mind and I would love to share it with others, help others, and work with like minded people to achieve this on a greater scale. So if any of what I shared resonated with you or interested you, or you have a desire to get out of a similar situation I was in, but just don’t know what to do then I would encourage you to leave me a message
email me at [email protected]
check out my website at www.myvemma.com/mcblax
or better yet feel free to call me anytime at 503.314.3657.
I would love to talk and here your story.