Keep It Positive, Sweetie – 2-Year Anniversary "Listener’s Choice": Help Is On The Way w/ Kountry Wayne

Podcast: Keep It Positive, Sweetie
Host: Crystal Renee Hayslett
Guest: Kountry Wayne (Wayne Colley)
Date: June 1, 2025

Episode Overview

In celebration of the two-year anniversary of "Keep It Positive, Sweetie," Crystal Renee Hayslett sits down with comedy star Kountry Wayne. Titled "Help Is On The Way," the conversation dives deep into Wayne's journey from street hustler to celebrated comedian, entrepreneur, and faith leader. Through candid storytelling, humor, and spiritual wisdom, Wayne shares lessons learned from his unconventional path—covering hustle, forgiveness, faith, fatherhood, relationships, self-worth, and building generational legacy. This episode is a masterclass in keeping it real, keeping it honest, and most importantly, keeping it positive.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Kountry Wayne’s Origin Story: From Streets to Stardom

• Viral Breakthrough & Hustle Mentality

  • Wayne’s comedic career began after a 2014 viral Facebook video. Despite early internet fame, his hustle continued as he balanced comedy with street ventures and club ownership.
    • "The video took off, but I didn't take off, but I took off with it. Like, I kept working." – Wayne [01:59]
  • Wayne’s backstory includes a small-town Georgia upbringing, exposure to crime, involvement in drug trade, and early fatherhood (7 children by age 22).
    • “As soon as I graduated high school, 2006, I started hustling. Immediately. I got caught. I got 10 years probation. By then I was 22 with seven kids.” – Wayne [03:47]
  • Used street-earned resources to self-fund his rap and comedy ambitions.

• Pivotal Shift to Comedy

  • Stand-up journey started in 2015; full commitment came after a lucrative comedy club weekend in 2016.
    • “I went to a comedy club and I made like 20 grand in one week... I said, oh, I’m finna make a million dollars.” – Wayne [08:47]

2. Faith & Personal Transformation

• Early Faith & Bible Commitment

  • Introduced to God at age six, Wayne maintained “crazy faith” throughout street life, eventually reading the Bible cover-to-cover seven times.
    • “I always had crazy faith... Everything I got in, I was able to get out.” – Wayne [11:28]
    • “Till this day I read [the Bible] through seven times on my eighth trip now. I don’t miss a day.” – Wayne [14:16]
  • Faith was pivotal in leaving the streets: “Even when I sold drugs... He cleaned my reputation.” – Wayne [11:28]

• Navigating Judgment & Authenticity

  • Wayne faced criticism for mixing street entrepreneurship with open vocalization of faith, but never wavered.
    • “When I did the Jesus popping brand, people like, you puttin that in... I’m like, bro, man, Jesus is in whatever I’m doing.” – Wayne [15:57]
  • Principles of faith guide his business decisions, relationships, and self-worth.

3. Overcoming Hardship: Hustle, Parenting, and Resilience

• The Pandemic & Economic Challenges

  • Wayne describes financial hardship during COVID-19, including nearly running out of money, hustling side gigs, and experiencing public scrutiny.
    • "During the pandemic, I was broke because the pandemic hit. I had, like, 100 grand, but... my bills were 70 grand a month. I got down to 13,000." – Wayne [17:20]
    • “Celebrities were watching... sometimes people wait on something bad to happen to me. Cause they were like, is he gonna keep that joy?” – Wayne [19:00]
  • Maintains faith as a bedrock through “dark moments”; emphasizes the importance of giving up struggle to God.
    • "I give it to God, man. When I get a headache, I give up quick. I'm like, I'm dead. God help me." – Wayne [17:09]

• Navigating Fatherhood

  • Father of ten, Wayne is intentional about presence, building a village (including retiring his father to help with grandkids), and financially supporting his children and their mothers.
    • “I had to retire a lot of people. Like my daddy, I retired him. So he take my sons to basketball practice.” – Wayne [52:32]
    • “I take care of my baby mamas...even though they got a man, I still got to pay them bills. I can't let the kids sit outside.” – Wayne [54:03]

4. Forgiveness & Generational Healing

• Healing Parental Relationships

  • Wayne speaks openly about forgiving his own father for absence and conditional love, recognizing generational wounds stemming from slavery and economic hardship.
    • "I forgive him for that though.” – Wayne [53:54]
    • “When you believe in yourself and you look at yourself a lot, you see that they went through things. So it’s a chain. We know we coming out of slavery now as Black people.” – Wayne [55:17]

• Advice for Listeners: Work on Yourself First

  • In response to a listener’s letter about relationship heartbreak: “She needs to work on her, work on her. You can’t work on nobody else. You can’t change men... You get stronger along the way, that it feels like kindergarten.” – Wayne [87:23, 88:05]

5. Living Your Truth, Relationships & Love

• Embracing Authenticity (“Stay Up and Live Your Truth”)

  • Wayne refuses to maintain tough-guy street persona or seek credibility from the past; embraces evolution and transparency.
    • “If guys knew what women... they really paid attention, they’ll learn how to be. They think women... hip hop, they think women like [that], but no. Everybody like one thing, but everybody loves another.” – Wayne [29:20]
    • “I move. I just never cared. So I handle what people don’t like me or mad about something, I move or they wasting their time.” – Wayne [33:54]

• Women, Money, and Energy

  • Wayne explains his approach to relationships: values women who love themselves, keeps gender roles flexible, denounces controlling behaviors, and emphasizes “energetic” giving over material giving.
    • “When I say I want her to love herself, that's the main thing, man. Put that energy into her... Because you can't love somebody more than you love yourself.” – Wayne [32:47]
    • "I give away Federal Reserve. They have no value. I don't give my energy." – Wayne [44:57]

• Spiritual Love & “Giving Her What God Wants For Her”

  • Unique to Wayne’s philosophy is loving a woman by speaking to her spirit, not merely pleasing her flesh.
    • “If you give her what God want for her, her soul gonna love you even when her flesh mad at you... A woman is like a child, you know what I'm sayin'? We gotta give people—it ain't even a woman, just people—but a woman. Her soul...that’s why depression come, anxiety...” – Wayne [61:27, 63:12]
    • “Every woman has a spiritual vagina... that spiritual vagina is a virgin... If you ever find a man who touched that spiritual vagina, your life gonna be changed forever.” – Wayne [63:52]
    • “Most men wanna stay in good cahoots to get what they want... when they do say something triggering, it's malicious.” – Wayne [67:02]

• Keeping Love and Money in Perspective

  • On women's relationship with money and independence:
    • “A woman can't handle money going out that account. My daughters, bruh... They depressed [when the money runs out].” – Wayne [80:20]
    • "I want a woman who believes in God for real, and not the world... If she believe in that, everything else gonna follow in order anyway." – Wayne [84:12]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Faith & Success:
  • “That faith in him—yeah, every time. The industry can’t stop them.” – Wayne [25:55]
• On Giving:
  • “Your living is in your giving.” – Crystal relaying wisdom from a mentor at Tyler Perry Studios [47:11]
• On Not Worrying About Others' Opinions:
  • “I don’t care. And I think that’s how I’m able to be creative.” – Wayne [34:09]
• On Authenticity:
  • “You walk around with a filter. You got a natural, human, organic filter. You got to let them see you, man.” – Wayne, uplifting Crystal [36:41]
• On Living God’s Will:
  • “Let God’s will be done... That’s the only prayer everybody should be praying.” – Wayne [41:04]
• On Breaking Generational Cycles:
  • “We just getting out of slavery. So we expecting our parents to be like—mama didn’t do this, mama didn’t—listen here, man... It’s a chain.” – Wayne [56:13]
• Humorous Truth:
  • “How did you end up with so many kids?”
    “I ain’t pull out.” – Wayne [47:43]
• On Women and Money:
  • "A woman can't spend her own money all the time. They can't take it... Their bones move different when that money hit the account." – Wayne [81:30]
• On Relationships:
  • “I'm looking for a woman who really believe in God for real and not the world... That crazy faith.” – Wayne [84:12]

Important Timestamps

• Faith and Personal Transformation: [11:28–16:49]
• Dark Moments / Pandemic Struggles: [17:09–20:14]
• Industry Shut Down and Building Own Lane: [21:43–22:55]
• Forgiving Parents, Generational Cycles: [53:19–60:30]
• Relationships, Women, and Self-Worth: [61:20–84:12]
• Listener Letter & Advice: [86:09–89:48]
• Episode Closing Reflections (“Keep it Creative, Sweetie”): [90:23–90:50]

Episode Takeaways

• Consistency & Faith Outlast Circumstance: Wayne’s career proves persistence and grounding in faith can outlive hardship and public skepticism.
• Living in Truth Attracts Support & Outlasts Judgment: Both host and guest model the freedom that comes from unapologetically living your story—and trusting that those meant to receive you will.
• Healing Means Forgiving & Breaking Cycles: True growth comes from breaking generational curses, forgiving those before us, and investing in healing for future generations.
• Success Means Building Your Own Table: The entertainment industry’s uncertainties pushed Wayne to build his own brand, create opportunities, and invest in generational stability.
• God’s Will is Greater Than Our Plans: Both found that releasing striving and praying for “Thy will be done” opened doors beyond what they could have imagined.
• Love Requires Depth, Not Just Chemistry: Wayne’s advice on "spiritual vaginas" and loving women as God intends flips relationship paradigms and encourages deeper, more soul-aligned connections.

Closing

This episode is a powerful dose of faith, realness, and actionable wisdom—wrapped in laughter and southern charm. Whether you’re a hustler, creative, parent, dreamer, or simply someone on their healing journey, Wayne and Crystal invite you to keep your head up, stay true, keep evolving, and above all—Keep It Positive, Sweetie.

[Keep It Creative, Sweetie!]