What is your story behind your life, Randy?
Or why you get out of bed and do what you do?
The story begins
probably more so around the time when I was having a very difficult time in my life.
It was I describe it in in my book as a midnight situation.
My 19 year old brother was in a fatal car accident.
And out of that came for me
the time of grappling with life and grappling with why am I here?
What is what is my life about as well?
I watched my little brother grow up and it was, you know,
something where when he was a baby, you know, he sometimes slept in my bed.
And we had many conversations all the way up till he was 19.
And for this to happen, I'm like, are you going to walk
through the door one day?
And of course, that was not going to happen.
And around that time, it was about six months later.
My mother during Christmas time found a letter that was on her computer
and she brought it to the Christmas gathering that we were having.
And she read it.
And I have that letter till this day because the letter,
the content of it was about me.
It was how proud he was of me, what he thought about me,
how the conversations we had were actually impactful to him.
And what I learned from that situation,
number one, it helped me clarify some of the things in my life
of that I was getting to him and having in the conversations
that I was talking to him about, about life or whatever
he may have had questions about or whatever we were talking about.
But I didn't see it when I was there.
During those moments, I didn't feel like I was making a difference
or being able to kind of provide that whatever he needed at the time.
However, through that letter, after he's gone,
he was able to speak to me and say, hey, you were making a difference.
And out of that, for me and my vision of what I am supposed to be doing
and part of my life is to be able to share this message no matter what,
whatever the message is that I was to share it,
because I never know the impact that it's going to have on someone
when I share the message with everything that I have.
And it may not look externally like I'm making an impact to a person.
They may not show anything at that moment or that time.
In fact, it may not even be for that particular person
I'm speaking to at the moment.
It might actually change someone else's life.
And so that has provided the story that kind of has driven me
and provided me a passion behind sharing a message of hope,
joy, love and experience that is fulfilling no matter what.
And no matter who it is, I'm do it through writing.
I'm going to do it through speaking.
I'm going to do it through podcasting, whatever I can do to distribute
and share this story, I'm going to share it
because for me, if I was able to impact my little brother
during those times, even though it didn't look like it,
I know that if I continue to share with as many people as I can,
many interactions, as many relationships that I have,
that I will impact someone with that message.
And they can have a transformational journey,
something happened in their life, whether it's a spiritual awakening,
something occurs through me sharing and passing on that information.