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What is your story behind your life, Randy?

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Or why you get out of bed and do what you do?

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The story begins

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probably more so around the time when I was having a very difficult time in my life.

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It was I describe it in in my book as a midnight situation.

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My 19 year old brother was in a fatal car accident.

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And out of that came for me

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the time of grappling with life and grappling with why am I here?

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What is what is my life about as well?

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I watched my little brother grow up and it was, you know,

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something where when he was a baby, you know, he sometimes slept in my bed.

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And we had many conversations all the way up till he was 19.

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And for this to happen, I'm like, are you going to walk

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through the door one day?

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And of course, that was not going to happen.

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And around that time, it was about six months later.

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My mother during Christmas time found a letter that was on her computer

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and she brought it to the Christmas gathering that we were having.

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And she read it.

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And I have that letter till this day because the letter,

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the content of it was about me.

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It was how proud he was of me, what he thought about me,

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how the conversations we had were actually impactful to him.

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And what I learned from that situation,

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number one, it helped me clarify some of the things in my life

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of that I was getting to him and having in the conversations

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that I was talking to him about, about life or whatever

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he may have had questions about or whatever we were talking about.

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But I didn't see it when I was there.

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During those moments, I didn't feel like I was making a difference

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or being able to kind of provide that whatever he needed at the time.

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However, through that letter, after he's gone,

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he was able to speak to me and say, hey, you were making a difference.

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And out of that, for me and my vision of what I am supposed to be doing

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and part of my life is to be able to share this message no matter what,

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whatever the message is that I was to share it,

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because I never know the impact that it's going to have on someone

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when I share the message with everything that I have.

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And it may not look externally like I'm making an impact to a person.

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They may not show anything at that moment or that time.

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In fact, it may not even be for that particular person

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I'm speaking to at the moment.

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It might actually change someone else's life.

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And so that has provided the story that kind of has driven me

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and provided me a passion behind sharing a message of hope,

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joy, love and experience that is fulfilling no matter what.

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And no matter who it is, I'm do it through writing.

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I'm going to do it through speaking.

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I'm going to do it through podcasting, whatever I can do to distribute

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and share this story, I'm going to share it

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because for me, if I was able to impact my little brother

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during those times, even though it didn't look like it,

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I know that if I continue to share with as many people as I can,

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many interactions, as many relationships that I have,

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that I will impact someone with that message.

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And they can have a transformational journey,

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something happened in their life, whether it's a spiritual awakening,

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something occurs through me sharing and passing on that information.