You grow up in South Memphis, where the days shape you early and you learn how to move with hunger, focus, and resilience. Sports becomes your first language, and when you move to Georgia and step into Wheeler, the adjustment is real, but you embrace it and keep rising. That drive takes you to Shawnee Community College and then to Clark Atlanta, where you help bring home the 2016–2017 SIAC Championship and carry the pressure of being the one your team depends on, learning what leadership really looks like when people are counting on you.

When basketball ends, you don’t lose yourself, you pivot. You build and create, turning that same discipline into a brand, launching what started as OAM and grew into Motivational Art, with your pieces getting seen on names like Pooh Shiesty, Dak Prescott, and Chris Brown. You learn that creativity opens the door, but structure is what keeps it open, and you start balancing the art with the business, the legal side, and the money it takes to grow something real.

Then life makes it deeper. Fatherhood changes the pace, loss changes the perspective, and you learn how to stay present while still letting yourself feel, using every chapter to sharpen your purpose. And through it all, music stays in the background, then steps to the front. From posting in 2015 to dropping Strictly Business in 2020, you step back to evolve your sound and return with momentum, including a video that crosses 1 million views, plus a distribution deal with UnitedMasters to take it to the next level.

You are Tim Sanders, creating through Motivational Art and music.