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What is one story or the story behind your why of what you do?

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Yeah, that's a great question. So the story for me has always been like, I remember as being a kid

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and always wanting to help people, right? That's like why I'm in the business I am in right now.

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I just didn't know at the time when I was a kid or when I was a teenager, you know, I just knew

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I wanted to help people somehow some way. I didn't know exactly how I was going to do it.

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And eventually as I grew older, my teenage years, my adulthood, that's when I went through,

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you know, a lot of mental setbacks, dealt with depression, suicide. And when I overcame that,

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my why got so much stronger. So I think it's just my own personal, you know, story,

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really, right? So it's one thing to say, I want to help people because I see these

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different things in the world. That's amazing. But when you kind of find yourself at that rock

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bottom, so to speak, and then you kind of find your way out, I think it kind of increases this

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fire, this fuel in you more. It makes you want to help people even more. It's what fulfills you even

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more when you actually do it. You know, so my story comes from being able to go from depression,

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suicide to all of a sudden finding the beauty, right? Finding the purpose. And then when I had

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that moment, it was like, I had this light bulb go off. It was like, God, the universe, the higher

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self, right? It was communicating with me. It was saying, hey, this is how you're going to help

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people. This is what you're meant to do. So let's get to work, right? And that's kind of like a brief

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story of why I do what I do. You know, it started from childhood, but then eventually I feel like

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I was meant to kind of go through these trials and tribulations. And then from the other side,

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it kind of just fueled even more and just put more passion behind service.