A. My name is Darrell Patterson. I am a serial entrepreneur and world-renowned fitness enthusiast.
Q. What or who motivated you to be the man you are today?
A. Nothing necessarily motivated me. Motivation is a temporary feeling that comes and goes! I simply want to be better each and every day! I can say that my parents instilled DRIVE in me at a young age. And that has carried over into my daily movements and my approach to how I handle my career and life.
Q. Tell us a fun fact about yourself?
A. I am a truly a big kid at heart. My son and my daughter definitely bring that part out of me even more.
A. Emjay is an example of someone who has always pursued his dreams, never giving up no matter how many times he’s fallen down. Emjay is a person who believes no matter what you go through excuses are not acceptable; you must fight for what you believe in. if there’s a will there’s a way. I believe in life there’s good and here’s bad you get what you put in, without the pain there’s no gain. Remain humble, stay thankful, and enjoy the ride to success. Falling in love with the process is the most beautiful part of it all.
Q. How has your experience been on Love and Hip-Hop Miami?
A. Love and Hip-Hop Miami has been both a great and interesting experience for me. The show and everything that came with it has helped bring awareness to me as a person, but the interesting part is not being in control of editing and how the people view me on the show. I understand that’s all a part of reality TV.
Q. I see you have a single “Mae Love” tell me more about this song?
A. My new single “Make Love” really means a lot to me because I consider this song to be real R&B. I feel music has been missing the real essence of R&B music, the focus has been Hip-Hop for so many years and I love Hip-Hop but it’s time for the true R&B wave to come back around and my new single “Make Love” is definitely the new wave.
Q. What is one of the hardest things you had to deal with being on Love and Hip-Hop Miami?
A. I think some of the hardest things I had to deal with on the show would be exposing my relationship and having it vulnerable to the twists and turns of editing, and not being able to showcase my music and artistry.
Quote “My hobbies are just raising my kids and do everything possible to make them smile. I don’t live for me I live for them.”
Q. Tell everyone who shooter is?
A. Shooter is just a brother from the hood, who has been blessed with an opportunity and trying to make the best out of it.
Q. Out of all the reality shows out here today what made you want to be on Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta?
A. Unfortunately I was chosen to be on the show I never ever thought I would be on tv.
Q. How have your experience been being on Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta?
A. It is a blessing to be on Love and Hip-Hop the show has opened my eyes up to so much more in life. Despite of the negativity you see me go through on the show.
Q. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
A. In the next 5 years I will be in big motion pictures that u have to watch in theaters. My trucking company will be off the ground and so would my barbershop.
Q. Tell us more about who Stephanie McSwine (Muscle Mom) is?
A. Stephanie McSwine is a divorced mother of 3 and the owner and founder of “Muscle Mom Lifestyle”. Stephanie provides “Get Fit” parties, motivational speeches and personal fitness training for women of all ages in the Greater Metropolitan Atlanta area. She started her business with the sole purpose to motivate, inspire and encourage others to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Stephanie participated in a fitness blog called “The Face of Fit” in 2013. This blog featured pictures of several women who started their fitness journey at different ages which gave Stephanie another outlet to share her story and encourage women on another platform.
Q. What is one of your greatest experiences?
A. During my journey I made some huge leaps of faith creating a women’s empowerment group on Facebook, starting my online boutique store, becoming a vendor at fashion shows, my store being featured in fashion shows and becoming a personal stylist. I also had my ups and downs are part of any journey like making decisions that deep down inside you don’t want to make but have too.
Q. What advice can you give other people who want to be fit?
A. Invest in yourself like you invest in others. We women give 100% to our exes’ careers, people and our families. We are blessed with only one body and our bodies are our temples. A temple is a holy sanctuary, when you think of a temple you connect it to God our creator. God blessed us with one temple so we should honor and protect it from harm. How do we give thanks to God for creating us? By doing the necessary things to make sure we are in the best condition possible.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Q. Tell us about Level 5 Health & Sport Fitness?
A. Level 5 Health & Sport Fitness we are specializing in weight loss, mini
boot camp, strength training, sports and power training, meal nutritional planning. Teaching clients to learn their body first Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Q. Who or what inspired you to be an athlete trainer?
A. I was inspired by Kobe Bryant, Steve Smith & Ct Fletcher. Their work ethic is very phenomenal, just like them. I like to push my body over and beyond the limits. It’s not all about power it’s the endurance you need in life to continue to press on when things get hard not giving up Mind over body.
Q. How do you stay fit?
A. I stay fit by training myself everyday like I am still playing football, working on my fast twitch muscle, Sprints, 40-yard dash, 225 reps on bench press, stretching doing Yoga, Leg workouts most important, putting myself on discipline meal plan that I can do Monday through Thursday that I can stick with no short-term meal plan, it’s a lifestyle consistency is the key.
Q. Tell us more about your boot camp?
A. Level 5 Health & Sport Fitness Boot is high intensity training hit cardio bodyweight movements. Lots of reps building your endurance muscle strength and lungs at its best but most important we make it fit for all ages we put the workout according to your body structure.
Q. What motivates you to train and coach people?
A. Knowing my purpose upon this world that God gave me to be a blessing to people to have a healthier lifestyle to be around for their family and kids at its best. Become closer to God. Teaching my clients to have endurance in life because you will need it when times get tough.
